Server Support Interview Questions

Kerberos is Authentication protocol IN active Directory.

Kerberos is an authentication machine which provide authentication to acessing of special type of secured networks it is bascially used in bank accounts

Active Directory data store in %SystemRoot%
tdsNTDS.DIT. The ntds.dit file is the heart of Active Directory including user accounts

You back up active directory by doing a system state backup with either windows back up or a third party backup provider (e.g. Symantec backup exec). When you perform a system state backup the ntds.di...

The main requirement for creating active directory...
1) Windows Server Operating System without web Edition
2) NTFS Partition
3) Well Connected TCP/IP

Here is a quick list of what you must have: An NTFS partition with enough free space An Administrator's username and password The correct operating system version A NIC Properly conf...

It is a System Volume folder its only created on NTFS partition of the Active Directory Database. It contains GPO templates and logon scripts.

All database of active directory stored in sysvol folder & its only created on NTFS partition
The Active Directory Database is Stored in %SYSTEM ROOT%NDTS folder

There are three types of Active directory they are
1) Schema partition
2) Domain Partition
3) Configuration and another new partition is application partition it is introduced windows Server 2003 onwards.

there are 4 Partition in AD

(1)Schema partition
(2)Configuration partition
(2)Domain partition
(3) Application partition

Windows Server 2008 is Hyper Virtualzation is new futures but it is not in windows server 2003. WDS is new future in windows server 2008 but instead of win2k3 remote installation services. Restartable...

Here i would like to share the difference between servers edition, have a look... 1)2008 is combination of vista and windows 2003r2. Some new services are introduced in it 1. RODC one new domain cont...

Active Directory is the brain of the windows server. It is a database file which stores the objects. Objects are nothing but users, printers, computers.....etc.

Active directory is a secure hirachical database which maintains the informations about user, computer, printer and network connected devices etc.

Disk scheduling algorithms are algorithms designed and used for scheduling disk operations Disk scheduling algorithms dramatically increase disk performance Disk scheduling algorithms aims to minimiz...

In order to run a computer, several data locations needs to be referenced in a short period of time. Such data locations consists are in relatively well predictable clusters. This concept of frequentl...

This is a common problem faced by a everyone working in support team. 1. don't try to argue with him. 2. try to understand the issues or problems he is facing. 3 .don't promise him heaven and eart...

First listen to customer give time to explain the problem and from there you have to give a customer a smiling voice and provide the solution

The directory database is ntds.dit contains on the folder: c:\windows
tds and there is a folder sysvol contains information of registry setting and group policy settings.

C:WINDOWS
tds
tds.dit

proxy server is used for sharing the internet.

DNS is used for resolving IP address to FQDN and FQDN to ip address.

actually DNS name resolution system we not able to remember machines by ip address we remember they as a computer name and machine dont understand name, it only understand ip for that perpose we use D...

Yes it is possible but if you configure raid 1 you will get only the least size HDD

To allow the server to run Multi - session client mode for applications through remote desktop protocol or for Remote terminal services.

Terminal services is a component of microsoft windows operating systems (both client and server versions) that allows a user to access application or data stored on a remote computer over a network co...

As your 1st DC would be GCSOn a new machine of win 2003 make an ADC (Additional domain controller) by Typing dcpromo in RUN and following the instructions.When your ADC will be made on new Win 200...

Join the new machine in domain.Run dcpromo on this machine.Transfer all the roles on the new DC.Ensure that we have properly configured the new machine as DNS and have also made the required changes o...

Q. Which protocol does ADS require?Answer: LDAP for directory sercices and kerberos for Authentication.Q.What is the scope of DHCP server?Answer: Scope determines which IP addresses are provided to th...

1) Doamin rename is not possible in windows 2000 2) windows 2k - IIS 5 and windows 2k3 - II6 3) Terminal service are enhanced in win2k3 4) Windows 2k doesn't have 64 bit version 5) DNS Stub zone h...

To access many services like mail service

To avoid installing application on every machine.
To centralise the database of the application.
Easy to manage the application ie installing,patching,etc..