Chapter 5. Client-Server Troubleshooting

As Microsoft operating systems have evolved, they have not only become more usable, but have also become much more “troubleshooting friendly.” In this chapter, you will see the new tools at your disposal that will help you aid users in peril and also help them to quickly recover from problems when they occur. Since many of these tools and problems transcend both client and server operating systems, this chapter addresses issues common to both XP clients and Windows Server 2003 systems.

Before getting to conquering specific problems, let’s begin with a look at the troubleshooting tools at your disposal for diagnosing and resolving operating system ills.

Troubleshooting Tools

In this section, we’ll look at the ...

Get Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator’s Repair Manual now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.