An Introduction to Wireless Networking (Part 1) – 802.11 Overview
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Introduction Whether it’s because you have made a call using a mobile phone, received a message on your pager, checked your email from a PDA or even just seen an…
An Introduction to Wireless Networking (Part 2) – Requirements and Setup
Windows 2003 and Wireless Networking Through its improved security and performance features, Windows 2003 makes usability and deployment of wireless local area network services easier. Such features include authentication, authorization…
Introduction to Wireless Networking Part 3 – Security, General Tips and Tricks
Types of Security In Part 1 of this series I mentioned WEP, SSID and MAC Address filtering as three methods of wireless networking security. Here we will get to know…
An Overview of Wireless Network Security
In this article I will point out what sort of threats there are, give you some considerations when planning for the implementation of network security, and also a list of…
Using NSLOOKUP for DNS Server diagnosis
The DNS protocol has been around for decades and is a stable and reliable protocol. Even so, DNS does occasionally have problems. PING is a great tool for DNS server…
Windows Server 2012 – The Basics
Introduction By now you have probably heard that with its Metro interface and redesigned Server Manager, Windows Server 2012 is vastly different from its predecessors. In fact, many administrators initially…
Crash Course in Active Directory Organizational Unit Design
In this article the author discusses Active Directory Organizational Unit design and gives tips on the design strategy and how they are best utilized. Introduction Active Directory has not changed…
Get Ready to Run IPv6
What is IPv6? Before I get into all of the nitty gritty details regarding why IPv6 is a requirement, I want to talk briefly about what IPv6 is for the…
Crash Course in IPv6 (Part 1)
An introduction to the IPv6 address space. The IPv6 Address Space The most obvious difference between the two protocols is the length of their source and destination addresses. The whole…
Crash Crouse in IPv6 (Part 2)
This article will continue the introduction to the IPv6 protocol by discussing IPv6 address formatting and the various types of IPv6 addresses. In the first part of this article series,…