Category: Windows 2003

Using Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft's Virtual Server is a tool for emulating an operating system, unlike their enemies (including the VMWare Workstation) You don't have a console, rather, an administration is made via the web, normally to the port 80 (if not in use) and if not to 1024. The advantage of this software is that it is installed, for example, on a server dedicated to it and we have the virtual machines available from any PC; we would connect from our PCs via the web and load the virtual machines, the resources are eaten by the server but it shows us the virtual machine on the screen as if it were local., we could have a Linux, a Windows running on our PC/laptop and the image file would be on the server eating up the memory/processor…

Using Distributed Software in Active Directory

This document details how a network administrator can save time. It involves publishing a series of programs in the Active Directory of MS Windows 2000/2003 and install them to whomever we want fully automatically. A very simple example, if we have WinZip and we want the whole company to have it installed and with the key inserted and with the 'classic' style, because it is a nuisance to have to go PC by PC installing it and entering the key and configuring it as they wish (I said WinZip for saying, but works with any program, For example, MS Office, Outlook, Antivirus, Adobe Acrobat Reader…). The best, generate an 'image’ of that software in an MSI file and then with active directory policies assign those installations to whoever we are interested in.

Setting up Shadow Copy

As incredible as it may seem, Microsoft moves forward! Not bad, This small great utility will be of enormous use to the administrators of networks of 'dumbs' users. It's a way that will save us IT admins time, since it is so easy that end users have to know it. I will give you a practical example. A network of X computers, X servers and for example, One of them is a file server where users store their data (images, Office Files, CAD…), How many times have we been told that a file has been uploaded?? that they have crushed him with another, or that they have engraved something on top of it… and that we recover yesterday's copy… or they just don't tell us and start over with work again. Vale, in situation, No? GOOD, MS if you have a Windows MS based server environment 2003 has created […]

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 […]

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.