PING: This tool tests the communications path between your system and another remote system.

If a PING returns, you know the link is traversal and the remote system is online. If the PING times out, either the link is down or the remote system is offline. TRACERT: This tool reveals the hops (systems encountered) between your system and a remote system. The results inform you whether your trace route packets are getting through and at what system a failure is occurring. ROUTE: This tool is used to view and modify the routing table of a multihomed system. NETSTAT: This tool displays information about the status of the current TCP/IP connections. NSLOOKUP: This tool displays DNS information that helps you manage and troubleshoot your DNS server.

The Kerberos Policy The last policy in Account Policies is the Kerberos Policy, which governs the activity of secured communication sessions (choose Account Policies Kerberos Policy). Kerberos is an advanced network authentication protocol. Using Kerberos, clients can authenticate once at the beginning of a communications session and then perform multiple tasks during that session without having to authenticate again. In other words, Kerberos is used to prove the identity of a client and a server to each other. After this identity verification occurs, communications can commence without requiring this process again (or at least not until the communications link is broken). The options for this policy are Enforce User Logon Restrictions: Enabled Maximum lifetime for user ticket renewal: 7 days Maximum lifetime for service ticket: 600 minutes Maximum tolerance for computer clock synchronization: 5 minutes Maximum lifetime for user ticket: 10 hours

Windows 2003 Resource Kit Utilities

Open the Group Policy Object Editor and navigate to Computer Configuration Administrative Templates - System - Disk Quotas. On the right hand pane you will see a list of policies that can be applied. Double click the "Default Quota Limit and Warning Level Properties" setting. To open Computer Management, you have three choices; either right click My Computer and select Manage, type compmgmt.msc in the Run bar or select Computer Management from the Administrative Tools folder. Now, navigate to Storage - Disk Management and select the volume you want to configure from the right hand pane and open the properties dialog. Click the Quota tab and enable the options you want to be enforced.