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Demo of ProPlus add-in readiness tools - Office ProPlus Application compatibility

We know Office add-in application compatibility can be a concern for many enterprises when they are...

Author: Ananth [MSFT] Date: 05/29/2017

Using Windows Analytics for Office add-in ProPlus readiness

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIQ9D-QRZjo&feature=youtu.be[/embed] In this video, I...

Author: Ananth [MSFT] Date: 05/22/2017

All about DHCP Auditing

In this post, I would be discussing about DHCP Audit logging and how to tweak it to your specific...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 11/02/2006

RManager - A tool to manage reservations

Reservation Manager:Reservations are a critical feature in the DHCP server. Reservations’ are...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 08/23/2006

How to find out how many more addresses are available in the DHCP server?

I got a couple of questions from a collegue regarding configuring DHCP server from a client machine....

Author: anto_rocks Date: 03/17/2006

How to programatically set/view the DNS settings.

How to programmactically set/view the DNS settings that we set in the DNS tab of the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 03/06/2006

How to override the system default for the threshold for the event 1020.

Question: How can I change the threshold value for firing of event 1020. Event 1020 fired by the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 11/02/2005

About "Default Routing and Remote Access Class"

The following is a question i received from one of the internal groups and my answer to the same. I...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 11/02/2005

Follow-up article on DHCP server callout DLL.

Hi all, I got a VS.NET solution for the sample DHCP server callout DLL. I have shared it to the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 05/24/2005

Windows 2003 SP1 DHCP export/import netsh commands failure on IA64 platform

Hi all, This post is regarding an issue that plagues the Windows Server 2003 SP1 on Itanium 64...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 05/17/2005

Follow-up article on how to set lease times through netsh.

Question: I have a customer that has 5 DHCP servers that host many scopes. The customer wants to...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 05/11/2005

A very good article on DHCP technology.

Hi all, The person (Balint Toth) who gave the contents of the previous post pointed out this link....

Author: anto_rocks Date: 04/07/2005

What it takes to get a lease.........

Hi all, I found this pretty useful content in one of our internal DL's. I thought it should be...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 04/06/2005

Manage your server from your desktop!

In this post, I am going to talk about an interesting way to manage your Windows Servers. One of the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 04/05/2005

Win2K3 SP1 RTM's

The best Server OS just got better!...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 04/01/2005

How to set DHCP scope lease time through netsh?

In this post, I am going to talk about how to set the lease time for a given scope in the DHCP...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 03/28/2005

How to find out all the active clients serviced by your DHCP server

In this post, I am going to discuss about the various ways by which you can enumerate all the client...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 03/23/2005

Join me in the chat.

One last reminder...... Enter here: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/chatroom.aspx...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 03/03/2005

How to duplicate reservations from one server to another?

The problematic scenario is the following: There are two DHCP servers serving the same set of...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/28/2005

All about the DHCP server callout API functions.

Ah now for the best part. I had always wanted to test this callout API thing. This is perhaps the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/25/2005

Join me in the chat!

Hi all,My team which is involved in the development of DHCP service is preparing for a upcoming chat...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/25/2005

All about DHCP vendor classes and user classes.

Fundamentally vendor classes were introduced to re-use the option id’s in a vendor specific way....

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/25/2005

Why are some of the addresses in the Address Leases for a given scope are marked as BAD_ADDRESS in the DHCP snap-in?

Today when I entered my office, the first thing that happened was the admin for our lab was asking...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/22/2005

DHCP Documentation

Documentation related to Windows DHCP Server and Client. 1) Windows Server 2003 a. Windows Server...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/22/2005

How do you find out the instantaneous load of the DHCP server?

Many network administrators would like to know the instantaneous load on their DHCP servers. This is...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 02/21/2005

Join me in the chat!

Hi all,My team which is involved in the development of DHCP service is preparing for a upcoming chat...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 01/13/2005

Let's set the ball rolling.

As I am getting a whole lot of DHCP questions from customers on a daily basis, I thought I should...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 12/03/2004

This thing called RFC.

One of the other things, I routinely do is read up IETF published Request for Comments. Most of the...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 11/01/2004

My Religion

My Religion: Let me begin with a dictionary of religion. Religion: 1) Institution to express belief...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 11/01/2004

This is who I am.

Let me introduce myself. I am A.J.Anto. I work for Microsoft India Development Center. My Job title...

Author: anto_rocks Date: 10/30/2004

Hello, World

Hello World, This is my first post. God bless the Net.

Author: anto_rocks Date: 10/30/2004