One of the components of my company's product is a Windows service, written in C#. It's dependent on .NET and on a few other libraries, none especially large. It works perfectly when started …

I'm trying to control services on one W2k8 machine from another; no domain just a workgroup. The user account I'm logged in as is an administrator on both machines. I've tried both psservice and …

I have a production web server (VPS) running Server 2008 with II7 and i have been asked to look into the usage of each site (there is about 10 sites running on this server) I have been looking at a …

I need to know the MAC to IP address mapping stored on DHCP server. I dont want to use arp cache as that would require me to either broadcast ping (which is not allowed on windows) or ping the all …

I need to set up an AD. The larger organisation I'm in has its own LDAP service which handles authentication and some other details. I would like to get AD to use that LDAP info just for …

"What would you define as a security event and a security incident and is there is a difference between them"? In terms of network "firewall" security.

I've been trying out VMware server for a while using different guest OS. On all of them I've seen the same thing - a lot of CPU is used when accessing the host's disks from the guest. The System …

The simple question is how do you sync a Windows file system to an FTP destination periodically while never checking the destination for change unless something bad happens and not relying on file …

I have a LAN of windows machine some running XP some running 2000, my broadcast ping times out all the time. is it due to firewall? or some other setting in registry?

I'm looking for a solution to backup our websites and MySQL databases on a Windows Server 2008. Our current host does a full weekly and daily differential backups, but I would like to maintain my own …

the following situations: i have two pc's. My work desktop with XP prof and logged on in domain mywork.com. This desktop also has two network card. one for logging on the mywork.com domain and using …

Does anyone have any idea why ipconfig might take a 10-20 seconds to finish? It's causing a timeout issue for me in an application. This is in Windows XP

DHCP supports three different mechanisms for IP address allocation: Manual allocation: the server's administrator creates a configuration for the server that includes the MAC address and IP address …

How do i allow access from some specified IP-Adresses (maybe a txt file?) while blocking access by default. Background is that i dont want to copy and past the ip-adresses into every single rule, …

I have a web server/database/domainController. I notice that ports 137 and 138 on the public IP AND private IP are open on all machines there are also other open ports on 0.0.0.0.(ie. 135, 2002) Can …