Design: Lack of Choice Improves Client Outcomes

One of the prime criteria for a design process is to search for and evaluate design choices. But research suggest that excessive choice actually produces negative outcomes, its hardwired into the human brain. Therefore a Network Designer needs to ensure that they are overriding their natural instinct. Read more

Configuring Windows 2003 / XP SP2 to Use IOS NTP Server

In certain networks, it is difficult to get the time on your servers to be exactly the same as the NTP time on your network equipment. In this case, you want to force the Windows servers to use the same NTP Network time source as your routers and switches. But Microsoft Windows doesn’t understand NTP by default, it has its own ‘way’ of setting up NTP so you need a little tweak to make it compatible.
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