Hacks #36-47
Under the hood of Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 are the
core networking services and components that enable systems to
communicate across a network. This includes services
such as Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Internet Name
Service (WINS), and other services that run on top of
TCP/IP. Configuring these services can be complex, and it can be hard
to pinpoint the problem when things go wrong.
This chapter is about managing key services and other networking
components. You'll learn how to use a script to
manage services on remote computers, how to ensure DHCP server
availability so your clients can communicate, how DNS aging and
scavenging work and can be configured, how to troubleshoot common DNS
problems when Active Directory is deployed, how to perform
complicated network configuration tasks using scripts and from the
command line, and several other important tasks.
When running VB scripts for system administration, remember to ensure
that you have the latest scripting engines on the workstation from
which you run the scripts. Download the latest scripting engines from
the Microsoft Scripting home page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/). Also,
when working with the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI), you
must have the same applicable rights you need to use the built-in
administrative tools. In other words, you should use an administrator
account to run these scripts.