Active Directory is a technology created by Microsoft that provides a variety of network services, including: * LDAP-like

directory services * Kerberos-based authentication * DNS-based naming and other network information * Central location
for network administration and delegation of authority.

A stub zone is like a secondary zone in that it obtains its resource records from other name servers (one or more master
name servers). A stub zone is also read-only like a secondary zone, so administrators can't manually add, remove, or
modify resource records on it. But the differences end here, as stub zones are quite different from secondary zones in a
couple of significant ways.

First, while secondary zones contain copies of all the resource records in the corresponding zone on the master name
server, stub zones contain only three kinds of resource records:

• A copy of the SOA record for the zone.

• Copies of NS records for all name servers authoritative for the zone.
• Copies of A records for all name servers authoritative for the zone.

Note: STUB zone scenario is good when you have more than one forest.

IIS Interview Questions (61)

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Which DLL is used to translate XML to SQL in Internet Information Services (IIS) ?

Posted by: Chvrsri

NOTE: This is objective type question, Please click question title for correct answer.

What are the Different steps to be followed to get SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) for our Web Application ?

Posted by: Chvrsri

. Intially we have to Generate a certificate request from our IIS

. Now we have to request a certificate from the certificate authority(CA)

. This CA is an entity which issues Digital Certificates.

. After receiving the certificate we have to install that particular certificate on our Web Server using IIS
. We have to use Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTPS) when accessing secure pages in our application.

By this way we could make our web page as SSL protected. !!!

How to recycle application pool from the command prompt in IIS7?

Posted by: Prasham

1. Use appcmd.exe to recycle the application pool from the command prompt.

2. appcmd.exe is the command line tool for IIS7, you will find this tool at following location :

%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd

3. To recycle your application pool use the following command:

appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:<application pool name>

List of Error & Status codes in IIS 6.0?

Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen

Status Code Type of Code
100 Series - Informational
200 Series - Success
300 Series - Redirection
400 Series - Client Error
500 Series - Server Error

What is IIS metabase? And In which format IIS stors configurations?

Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen

IIS metabase is a special databse which is used to maintain the settings and configurations data for IIS. In simple term, it is
a configuration base for IIS (Metabase.xml).

IIS 5.0 --> Metabse is in Binary.

IIS 6.0 & 7.5 --> Metabase is in XML.

What is the default user name of an anonymous login in IIS?

Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen

In IIS, an anonymous user will be given with a user name of "IUSR_MachineName "
How can we take back-ups in IIS Server?

Posted by: Peermohamedmydeen

Step 1 : In the IIS (inetmgr), right click on the "Computer" icon under "Internet Information Services" . Click "All Tasks"
and select "Backup/Restore Configuration".

Step 2 : Click on button "Create backup". Give Name for your backup file. If you want encryption enable encryption option
and give UserName and Password and then click OK.

What is the latest version of IIS released with Windows 7

Posted by: Nishithraj

IIS 7.5

From where you can change the ASP.NET Version in IIS ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

This can be change from Virtual Directory properties. First open Properties of Virtual Directory > GoTo ASP.NET Version
Tab.

There we can have change the ASP.NET Version.

What are the different "Execution Permission" available for IIS for an virtual directory ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

There are three Execution Permission available.
1. None
2. Scripts Only
3. Scripts and Executable

From where we can set the Session Time Out in IIS ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

We can set the Session time out settings from the Virtual Directory for that site.

Right Click on Virtual Directory > Properties > Click on "Configuration" Button
Goto the "Option" Tab. There in Enable Session State Section you can configure the Session Timeout .
How does IIS process an ASP.net request ?

Posted by: Abhijit Jana

When client request for an aspx pages, request comes to kernel level off IIS means to HTTP.SYS . HTTP.SYS receives
the request and based on the application pool name [ Which is already registred with the HTTP.SYS ] it send the request to
worker process. Windows Activation process works as mediator of them. w3wp.exe loads "aspnet_isapi.dll" files to start
the HTTPRuntime . HTTPRuntime creates HTTPApplication objects and all request are passed through HTTPModule
and finally reached to HttpHandler . This is the request pipeline. After end of Request pipeline ASP.NET Page lifecycle
starts.

Windows Server 2003 IIS and Scripting interview

questions
By admin | December 7, 2003

1. What is presentation layer responsible for in the OSI model? The presentation layer establishes the data format
prior to passing it along to the network application’s interface. TCP/IP networks perform this task at the application
layer.
2. Does Windows Server 2003 support IPv6? Yes, run ipv6.exe from command line to disable it.
3. Can Windows Server 2003 function as a bridge? Yes, and it’s a new feature for the 2003 product. You can
combine several networks and devices connected via several adapters by enabling IP routing.
4. What’s the difference between the basic disk and dynamic disk? The basic type contains partitions, extended
partitions, logical drivers, and an assortment of static volumes; the dynamic type does not use partitions but
dynamically manages volumes and provides advanced storage options
5. What’s a media pool? It is any compilation of disks or tapes with the same administrative properties.
6. How do you install recovery console? C:\i386\win32 /cmdcons, assuming that your Win server
installation is on drive C.
7. What’s new in Terminal Services for Windows 2003 Server? Supports audio transmissions as well, although
prepare for heavy network load.
8. What scripts ship with IIS 6.0? iisweb.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and list Web sites, iisftp.vsb to create,
delete, start, stop, and list FTP sites, iisdir.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and display virtual directories,
iisftpdr.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and display virtual directories under an FTP root, iiscnfg.vbs to export and
import IIS configuration to an XML file.
9. What’s the name of the user who connects to the Web site anonymously? IUSR_computername
10. What secure authentication and encryption mechanisms are supported by IIS 6.0? Basic authentication,
Digest authentication, Advanced digest authentication, Certificate-based Web transactions that use PKCS #7/PKCS
#10, Fortezza, SSL, Server-Gated Cryptography, Transport Layer Security
11. What’s the relation between SSL and TLS? Transport Layer Security (TLS) extends SSL by providing
cryptographic authentication.
12. What’s the role of http.sys in IIS? It is the point of contact for all incoming HTTP requests. It listens for requests
and queues them until they are all processed, no more queues are available, or the Web server is shut down.
13. Where’s ASP cache located on IIS 6.0? On disk, as opposed to memory, as it used to be in IIS 5.
14. What is socket pooling? Non-blocking socket usage, introduced in IIS 6.0. More than one application can use a
given socket.
15. Describe the process of clustering with Windows 2003 Server when a new node is added. As a node goes
online, it searches for other nodes to join by polling the designated internal network. In this way, all nodes are
 notified of the new node’s existence. If other nodes cannot be found on a preexisting cluster, the new node takes
control of the quorum resources residing on the shared disk that contains state and configuration data.
16. What applications are not capable of performing in Windows 2003 Server clusters? The ones written
exclusively for NetBEUI and IPX.
17. What’s a heartbeat? Communication processes between the nodes designed to ensure node’s health.
18. What’s a threshold in clustered environment? The number of times a restart is attempted, when the node fails.
19. You need to change and admin password on a clustered Windows box, but that requires rebooting the
cluster, doesn’t it? No, it doesn’t. In 2003 environment you can do that via cluster.exe utility which does not
require rebooting the entire cluster.
20. For the document of size 1 MB, what size would you expect the index to be with Indexing Service? 150-300
KB, 15-30% is a reasonable expectation.
21. Doesn’t the Indexing Service introduce a security flaw when allowing access to the index? No, because users
can only view the indices of documents and folders that they have permissions for.
22. What’s the typical size of the index? Less then 100K documents - up to 128 MB. More than that - 256+ MB.
23. Which characters should be enclosed in quotes when searching the index? &, @, $, #, ^, ( ), and |.
24. How would you search for C++? Just enter C++, since + is not a special character (and neither is C).
25. What about Barnes&Noble? Should be searched for as Barnes’&’Noble.
26. Are the searches case-sensitive? No.
27. What’s the order of precedence of Boolean operators in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Indexing Service?
NOT, AND, NEAR, OR.
28. What’s a vector space query? A multiple-word query where the weight can be assigned to each of the search
words. For example, if you want to fight information on ‘black hole’, but would prefer to give more weight to the
word hole, you can enter black[1] hole[20] into the search window.
29. What’s a response queue? It’s the message queue that holds response messages sent from the receiving
application to the sender.
30. What’s MQPing used for? Testing Microsoft Message Queue services between the nodes on a network.
31. Which add-on package for Windows 2003 Server would you use to monitor the installed software and license
compliance? SMS (System Management Server).
32. Which service do you use to set up various alerts? MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager).
33. What languages does Windows Scripting Host support? VB, VBScript, JScript.

Windows sysadmin interview questions

By admin | March 29, 2006

1. What is Active Directory schema?

2. What are the domain functional level in Windows Server 2003?
3. What are the forest functional level in Windows Server 2003?
4. What is global catalog server?
5. How we can raise domain functional & forest functional level in Windows Server 2003?
6. Which is the deafult protocol used in directory services?
7. What is IPv6?
8. What is the default domain functional level in Windows Server 2003?
9. What are the physical & logical components of ADS
10. In which domain functional level, we can rename domain name?
11. What is multimaster replication?
12. What is a site?
13. Which is the command used to remove active directory from a domain controler?
14. How we can create console, which contain schema?
15. What is trust?
16. What is the file that’s responsible for keep all Active Directory database?
17. • What is Active Directory?
• What is LDAP?
• Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.
• Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
• What is the SYSVOL folder?
• Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
• What are application partitions? When do I use them
• How do you create a new application partition
• How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
• What is the Global Catalog?
• How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
• Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?
• Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?
• What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?
• What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
• What are sites? What are they used for?
• What’s the difference between a site link’s schedule and interval?
• What is the KCC?
• What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?
• What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?
• What can you do to promote a server to DC if you’re in a remote location with slow WAN link?
• How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I get user passwords from the
AD database?
• What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?
• Name some OU design considerations.
• What is tombstone lifetime attribute?
• What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?
• What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?
• How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?
• What are the DS* commands?
• What’s the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?
• What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?
• What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?
• I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do?
• What’s the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize?
Why?
• How do you configure a “stand-by operation master” for any of the roles?
• How do you backup AD?
• How do you restore AD?
• How do you change the DS Restore admin password?
• Why can’t you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?
• What are GPOs?
• What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
• Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
• What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?
• What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?
• What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?
• How can I override blocking of inheritance?
• How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that.
• A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU, and everyone else
there gets the GPO. What will you look for?
• Name a few differences in Vista GPOs
• Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.
• What are administrative templates?
• What’s the difference between software publishing and assigning?
• Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO?
• You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the
computers in one department. How would you do that?