Brien Posey

Brien Posey is a freelance technology author and speaker with over two decades of IT experience. Prior to going freelance, Brien was a CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities. He has also served as a network engineer for the United States Department of Defense at Fort Knox. In addition, Brien has worked as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America. To date, Brien has received Microsoft’s MVP award numerous times in categories including Windows Server, IIS, Exchange Server, and File Systems / Storage. You can visit Brien’s Website at: www.brienposey.com.

Making the Windows Server 2003 Indexing Service Useful

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Last month I wrote <a href="http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Working-With-Windows-Server-2003-Indexing-Service.html">an article</a> that explained how to set up the Windows Server 2003 Indexing Service. The Indexing Service makes searching for information on your network a whole lot faster than using the built in Windows Search tool. The only problem is that the query interface is built into the server’s Computer Management console and is therefore not readily available to users. I got around this problem on my own network by designing a Web application that acts as a query tool for users on my network. In this article, I will show you how to build such an application for your own network.

Using Remote Storage To Extend Available Storage Space

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Odds are that your file servers are filled with ancient files that nobody uses anymore, but that the lawyers say that you have to keep. Traditionally, such files have been archived to tape, never to be seen again. However, Windows Server’s remote storage feature allows you to move such files to tape while still allowing them to be available to users. In this article, I will show you how it’s done.

Determining Whether an in House or an External Certificate Authority is More Appropriate for Your Company

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With security becoming such a huge priority for companies over the last few years, many administrators who might have never thought twice about digital certificates are suddenly finding themselves in situations that require issuing various types of certificates. In this article, I will explain some of the benefits and some of the drawbacks of internal and external certificate authorities, in an effort to help you to make an intelligent decision as to what is right for your network.

Understanding the Impact of RAM on Overall System Performance

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Being that pretty much everybody that I know knows that I am into computers, I tend to get asked a lot of questions from friends and family regarding servers that they might manage or regarding their PCs at home. One of the questions that seem to come up most often is “Which upgrade will give me the most bang for my buck?” In most cases the answer to the question is that they should invest in more memory for their computer. In this article, I will explain why memory plays such a huge role in a computer’s overall performance.

Running Legacy 16-Bit Applications in a Terminal Service Environment

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It may seem strange to talk about applications written for an operating system that has been obsolete for at least ten years, but believe it or not, there are a huge number of companies that still depend on legacy DOS applications for mission critical tasks. Unfortunately, DOS applications do not tend to work well with the Windows Terminal Services. In this article, I will discuss some of the underlying reasons for this incompatibility. After doing so, I will then go on to discuss some possible resolutions for the various compatibility issues.

Choosing Whether to Run Performance Monitor Locally or Remotely

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I have noticed lately that there seems to be a rather heated debate on various Web sites as to whether it is more appropriate to run the Windows Performance Monitor locally or remotely. There are good arguments on both sides of the issue, so I decided to put it to the test. In this article, I will attempt to answer the age old question of whether you should be running the Performance Monitor locally or remotely.

Managing User Specific Application Configuration Data in a Terminal Service Environment

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Today almost every Windows application writes data to the Windows registry during the installation process. Although the way that the application uses the registry isn’t usually a pressing issue on a standard PC, registry key placement becomes crucially important when the application is run in a Terminal Service environment. In this article, I will explain why this is the case and how the Terminal Services manages application related registry entries for multiple users.

Making Sense of Windows Routing Tables

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It’s amazing the way that time can go by. People tend to think of computers as being high tech, but the TCP/IP protocol has been around in one form or another for over three decades. As such, TCP/IP has had time to really mature and be made stable and reliable. When it comes to computers, nothing is foolproof though. When routing packets across a network, things do occasionally go wrong. In these situations, it is helpful to be familiar with the Windows routing tables. Routing tables dictate the flow of packets from the machine in question. In this article, I will show you how to view the Windows routing tables and how to make sense of the data that is contained within it.

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