Sep 28 2009
TCP Offload Engine (or TOE) transfers network processing load, from the CPU (software) to the network controller (hardware). The network card needs to support TOE such as the HP NC382T. This functionnality is disabled after the server installation.
Check if TOE is enabled
Windows 2003
The activation can only be checked with the registry key EnableTCPChimney under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
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Sep 27 2009
A builtin equivalent to the Unix grep command is available in Windows, a bit less powerful though: findstr. You can do searches based on patterns, still in a measured way.
Options
C:\>findstr /?
Searches for strings in files.
FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
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Aug 20 2009
Most of us already know cluster features aren’t provided on Windows 2003 server Standard Edition.
The thing is you’ve got a shared storage space but you can’t (or don’t want to) afford 2 Windows Enterprise licences just for a file server.
There is DFS indeed but one acknowledge it is a pity to replicate data that resides [...]