NetBIOS alone should not give you many headaches. Unfortunately, when NetBIOS problems occur they can be difficult to detect. Understanding how NetBIOS works is the key. One of the important steps in ...

A new variant of the Ryuk Ransomware has been discovered that adds IP address and computer blacklisting so that matching computers will not be encrypted. Kremez found that with this new variant, the ...

You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...

Tech Tip: Use Ping to return the host name of a computer Your email has been sent The Ping.exe utility is often one of the first command-line utilities admins turn to when troubleshooting Windows 9x ...

Since starting work at my new place (though after almost 8 months it's not 'new' anymore) my first priority was to get the desktops in order. We now have a standard build (that takes 2 hours rather ...

We have a 2003 R2 DC that I want to virtualize as the lease on the hardware is expiring. It's a DC, GC, FSMO master, DNS, DHCP and TS License Server. I want/need to keep the same name and IP on the ...