Archive for March, 2008

VoIP: How to Effectively Encapsulate Voice in IP Packets

VoIP converts voice signals from a telephone into digital signals that can be transmitted over the Internet. VoIP is becoming more popular every day.
Nowadays it is common to find leased lines and VPN connections between company branches which are used to transport voice traffic in addition to data.
However, voice has strict real-time requirements in […]

HTTP Redirection in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008

If you have a website and want to change domain names or if you need to change the architecture of your site, you won’t want visitors following links from other sites and search engines such as Google to get an error while visiting your website.
This can cause visitors to click away and a loss […]

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory — Creating Users is Easy!

You probably already know that a User Account is an Active Directory Object, or simply said, a record in an AD database.
Most of the time we create user accounts for people, however user accounts can also be created for applications or processes.
User accounts allow a person to access resources on a network. But we […]

Less is More — Windows 2008 Server Core

In the movie Apollo 13 Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) references “computers that fit in a single room,” as an example of how far technology has come.
In this day of powerful servers just an inch thick, it is easy to forget that just ten years ago a server was a very large computer. […]

How to Install IIS 7 & Setup a Static Website in 13 Easy Steps

Why install IIS?
The most obvious answer is because you need a web server that is easy to configure and work with. IIS 7 in Windows Server 2008 is a completely different animal than it has been in the past.
It seems Microsoft may have finally created a version of IIS that will […]