GrubleTrang Knowledge Base 

This page is a collection of resources that I use in my work as consultant and Microsoft certified trainer. Whenever I find some useful information I create a link on this page. It's publicly available so that others may benefit from this information.

Click on the technology of interest to get access to great links to web pages, white papers and applications.

AD (Active Directory) - AD is a hierarchical database introduced in Windows 2000. The database is used for storing information about users, security, configuration, etc. and can be extended for storing new types of data. Read more...
ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface) - ADSI is an open standard for accessing Directory Services. By using this standard Microsoft opens up the door for integrating Active Directory and other Directory Services. Read more...
Clustering - Clustering on Windows is 2 main technologies, the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Network Load Balancing (NLB). A third technology used in large web installations is Component Load Balancing (CLB). Read more...
Debugging - When you experience "Blue Screens" your OS has detected a problem and called the "KeBugCheckEx" routine. This brings down your system in a controlled manner and, depending on your system properties, dumps the memory to disk. This dump can be analysed with different tools. Read more...
Deployment - Deploying hundreds or thousands of operating systems can be tedious. There are many tools available to assist this task. Read more...
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) - DHCP is a server component used for automatic configuration of client IP addresses. Options include the IP address, subnet mask, DNS server, WINS server, default gateway, etc. Read more...
DNS (Domain Name Service) - DNS is a server component used for translating host names to IP addresses vice versa. With Windows 2000 DNS has become dynamic, so manual updating of DNS records is no longer necessary. Read more...
Event Viewer - Event viewer is the primary tool used for viewing the security and health of the Windows operating system. Read more...
Exchange - Exchange Server is Microsofts mail server product. Read more...
GPO (Group Policy Objects) - Group Policy Objects is a technology introduced in Windows 2000, used for automating large parts of the network configuration. This includes deployment of software, desktop settings, security settings, etc. Read more...
IAS (Internet Authentication Service / RADIUS) - IAS is a server component introduced in Windows 2000. With IAS you can centralize authentication and billing of Remote Access users. RAS servers and various networking equipment can be clients to an IAS server. Read more...
IIS (Internet Information Server) - IIS is Microsofts web server. Read more...
ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server) - ISA is the first real firewall from Microsoft, and the successor of Proxy 2.0. ISA has two primary functionalities, firewall and caching. Read more...
Kerberos - Kerberos version 5 is the main authentication protocol of Windows 2000 and the successor of LM, NTLM version 1 and NTLM version 2. Read more...
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) - LDAP is an open standards based network protocol used for accessing distributed directories, e.g. Active Directory. Read more...
Migration - Migration is the transition of going from one system to another and includes domain migration, OS migration, user migration, file migration, etc. Read more...
Mobile Computing - Mobile computing covers computing on mobile devices such as Windows Mobile Smart Phone and Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Read more...
MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) - The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) provides operational guidance that enables organizations to achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and technologies. MOF is based on ITIL. Read more...
MSI (Microsoft Installer) - MSI is a technology for dealing with the complete life cycle of software: Installation, upgrade, maintenance and removal. Read more...
NAT (Network Address Translation) - NAT translates internal IP addresses to external IP addresses used for browsing the Internet, and also translates external addresses to internal addresses for publishing servers to the Internet. Read more...
NTFS (New Technology File System) - NTFS is the main filesystem of the Windows server operating system. Read more...
Performance Monitor - Being the main tool for baselining and monitoring performance on Windows, performance monitor has hundreds of objects and counters and can be extended by applications. Read more...
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) - PKI is a common name for all the components that make up the infrastructure in a public/private key environment, e.g. Certificate Authorities, Active Directory, PKI-aware applications like Internet Explorer and Outlook, etc. Read more...
Programming - This section deals with the 3 main languages on the Windows platform which are C++, VB and C#. Read more...
RIS (Remote Installation Services) - RIS is a technology introduced in Windows 2000 with which PXE compliant clients can be easily installed by booting to the network. Read more...
RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Service) - Routing and Remote Access Service covers the advanced network configuration options, including VPN, Routing, NAT and Dial In. Read more...
Scripting - Scripting is a high level programming language often used for dealing with trivial administrative tasks. Read more...
Security/Hacking - Various information regarding security. Read more...
SQL (Structured Query Language) - This section deals with Microsoft SQL Server. Read more...
TCP/IP (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) - TCP/IP is the main communication protocol in the Windows operating system. Read more...
Terminal Services - Terminal Services is a technology used for remote server administation and thin client computing. Read more...
VPN (Virtual Private Networking) - VPN is a technology used for making secure end-to-end encrypted connections across insecure network environments. Read more...
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) - WINS is a server component used for translating NetBios names to IP addresses. Read more...
Wireless - Various information about the technologies that help support wireless computing and making it secure. Read more...
WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) - WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management, an initiative based on a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. Read more...