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Choose a way of contacting the Microsoft clearinghouse to get an activation code and valid license packs. NOTE If you choose to contact the licensing people via telephone or fax, the next screen of the wizard will display a list of countries to choose from so that you've got a shot at making a toll-free call. The United States is not the default choice, which is international-minded of Microsoft but inconvenient to those of us not used to having to browse all the way to U. If you're licensing...
The Hack that Was
Windows Terminal Server, and terminal sessions running on early betas of Win2K Server, had a little problem when it came to running WinChat, the graphical chat application that comes with Windows. Because WinChat referenced computers, not users, you couldn't use it from a terminal server session to talk to someone running another terminal session. Try to connect to someone, and you'd see a list of computers to choose from, as you see in Figure 15.33. Chat sessions with yourself get dull, so...
Ghosts Little Helper Sysprep
RIS and scripting are cool, but the fastest way to blast an image onto a new system continues to be Ghost or something like it. The idea is to first create a server or workstation just the way you like it, as you would before RIPrep-ing a system. Then use a disk copying tool like Symantec's Ghost or PowerQuest's Drive Image Pro to essentially photocopy the drive these tools don't look at files, they just copy an entire partition from one drive right atop another. Or, for about 1000, you can...
An Alternative Dynamic Routing Protocol OSPF
While RIP has been around for some time, it's an awfully chatty protocol. Twice a minute, each RIP router broadcasts its entire routing table for all to hear. A more intelligent and bandwidth-parsimonious but more complex to set up dynamic routing protocol is available in the form of the Open Shortest Path First OSPF protocol. You have to feed the routers a bit more information about the layout of your sites, but once you do, OSPF quickly generates the shortest routes for your packets.
Ip Xsv
Records activity related to serving Internet WWW and FTP client requests. Counters for this object record the caching and retrieval of binary large objects BLOBs used for handling the large strings of data associated with video and image files, and also of file handles and URLs. The IP counters record events associated with the sending and receiving of IP datagrams, including the rate at which they're sent, received, and processed the discard rate for outbound and inbound packets and the...
GUIRunOnce
I haven't included this section in my example scripts yet, but I should mention that you can include a section, GUIRunOnce , in a setup script. It tells 2000 to finish installing and then to reboot. Once 2000 reboots, it then lets you log in. Once you've logged in, Setup runs the commands in GUIRunOnce typically these are setup commands for applications. They run under whatever user account you logged in as, so if you're installing something that requires Administrator-level privileges, then be...