So, my super fantastic company decided that they wanted to deploy OCS; no planning or the like involved, just that they went to the Microsoft Partner Conference, saw OCS 2007 R2 deployed and went "wow ...

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I was doing a bit of tinkering with DNS and was looking around at all the different types of records available. The one that really caught my eye was the SRV (location of service) record.<BR><BR>To ...

Earlier this month we discussed how special DNS resource records called SRV (service locator) records help Windows systems find domain controllers so they can authenticate to the domain. Interestingly ...

The Address (A) record associates a domain name or subdomain with an IP address, which is the primary purpose of the DNS system. The @ sign identifies "this domain;" for example, A @ nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...