Desktop Management Software

[ <b>Mood:</b> Angry ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Recently, happened to trouble shoot and fix a FQDN related issue in my local windows test environment. My two cents on this,

FQDN stands for Fully-Qualified Domain Name. The catch here is the word ‘qualified’ which means specific or particular or absolute. For eg., The domain name “romanus.desktopcentral.com.” is fully-qualified because it gives the full location of the specific domain that bears its name within the whole DNS name space. Technically, ?com? is the top level domain (TLD) which contains a subdomain ?desktopcentral? that in turn contains subdomain ?romanus?, giving the full domain name for ?romanus? as ?romanus.desktopcentral.com.?. You can find the last dot “.” which make it unambiguous. This shows the fact that one can refer unambiguously to the name of any computer using its FQDN from any name space. Hence, FQDN makes the softwares interpret the name to start at the root and then follow the sequence of domain details from right to left, going top to bottom within the tree.

If the DNS is not proper or the client computers are not using the correct DNS server, you can experience issues while using FQDN. However, you’ll be able to communicate with host or relative or partial names. In our example, romanus. Obviously it is ambiguous, if you have more than one namespace it might run into issues and confusions while communicating like this.

The reason to share it at this juncture with you admin folks is to get feedbacks on your FQDN enabled networks or related experience. Is your network really speaking FQDN?

[ <b>Mood:</b> Cool ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Folks:

If you are a Microsoft MVP and interested to learn our Desktop Central software , please contact us (support at desktopcentral dot com). We provide you required documents (user guide, product overview, architecture diagram, etc.), product demo, technical support and license. All are free of cost !

Thanks

Mathi

V. Mathivanan

Product Manager

Desktop Central

[ <b>Mood:</b> Cool ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Folks:

If you are a IT consultant in US or Canada and interested in Desktop Central, please contact us (support at desktopcentral dot com). We like to set up a new business model with you.

Thanks

Mathi

V. Mathivanan

Product Manager

Desktop Central

[ <b>Mood:</b> Cool ]<br />[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Most of the Enterprises use Microsoft Active Directory based windows network. Active Directory also provides lot of be benefits , few came in my mind are:

1. Achieve the desired organizational structure using Forest, Domains, Sub domains, Organizational Unit (OU)

2. Centralized management of users

3. Roaming User Profiles

4. Creating Standardized Configurations, Settings, and Options using Group Policy Object (GPO)

5. Enhancing Security

But the question is, does all enterprises use Active Directory ? What is the deployment ratio of Work group and other Directory Services in Enterprises ? Please share your views

Thanks

Mathi

[ <b>Currently:</b> Working ]<br />Vista - Windows RE

Recently read about this windows RE shipped with VISTA. Windows RE stands for Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). It is set of programs which comes with Vista operating system. It is based on WinPE 2.0. This WinRE can be used to diagnose and recover your hard disk from booting issues.

The tool set available with vista WinRE is more sophisticated when compared with older recovery consoles used in 2000 and XP.

You can find more information on the msdn blogs, JinAll’s Blog

cheers

romanus