Category: Microsoft

RIS Installation and Configuration – Remote Installation Service – Remote Installation Service

RIS is a utility that MS Windows brings 2003 and serves to distribute operating systems over the LAN, so you don't have to travel with the S.O's CDs. Over there, if we buy a new PC for the office, if you put it to boot by network card it would start to install for example MS Windows XP with SP2, This is the example I will make. Of course,, The installation is clean and without any other software, That's why we have active directory policies for distributing software – HERE. And if what we want is to distribute it with applications and so on, we should go to commercial products like Symantec Ghost. More RIS configurations are explained below. – HERE; and how to use RIS with unattended installation files (Unattended Setup Answer File) – HERE. And if you don't know what unattended installation files are, Take a […]

Replicating SQL Server databases 2000

This procedure explains how to replicate a SQL Server database from one server to another continuously. Used in the case of having an online backup of the server in case of a crash; and users can work against the other server without making much change (for example with a simple change of alias in the DNS's).

RDP over SSH or Connect to Terminal Server (RDP) via secure connection

Situation, we want to connect through the RDP protocol to a server that is on the other side of the Internet, I make a case study. We imagine that I am at home with a normal PC and a normal MODEM/ADSL connection, I want to connect to a server of my company. My company's public IP is the 212.011.234.068, and I have for example 4 RDP servers within the network (the 192.168.0.101, 102, 103 and 104), the first thing is the FW of the company map the port 22 (SSH) to the SSH server, which in my case study will be the 192.168.0.101. Then simply from the PC we will open an SSH connection to the FW, it will redirect me to SERVIDOR01 and once logged in via SSH, I minimize the putty screen (SSH Client) and from my own PC I can open the Windows RDP client and connect to the server I want.

Setting up a RAID5 on Windows 2003

This type of arrangement requires a minimum of 3 Disks, These are divided into stripes (how the RAID0) the difference is that of the 3 Stripes one is used for parity and only the other two are used to store data. This increases RAID speed-0, but with the redundancy that parity allows … in practice the array is immune to failures of a single disk but not as much space is wasted as in the case of a RAID 0+1.

Setting up a RAID1 on Windows 2003

It is also known as “Mirror disc” and consists of the Operating System recording the same data simultaneously on both discs, which provides greater reliability since if either of the two individual disks fails, The arrangement continues to operate without losing information, because it is essentially duplicated.

Preparing the Active Directory to Install a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

The first thing is to prepare the Active Directory, for this, we will have to go to the domain controller that is the schema master (how? HERE), and meet some prerequisites, such as having the .NET Framework 2.0 installed in it (HERE), Windows SP1 2003 installed, the mode/level of the domain in “Windows 2000 native” or “Windows Server 2003” (HERE); and of course do it with a user account that has permissions.