Breazile's Blog

DNS Resolution Bottleneck in Windows Server 2000/2003 and Windows XP

Summary DNS name resolution was failing on a Windows 2003 server when we tried to access SYSVOL shares from our Domain Controllers. This only seemed to happen when we referenced the share by fully qualified domain name (FQDN). It was not hard to reproduce Read More...

Converting File Times - 64 bit math using only built-in DOS commands

What are File Times? A File Time is a 64-bit value that represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00 A.M. January 1, 1601 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). I won't go into the details in this blog, but NTFS and Active Read More...