Installing and Configuring SpamTitan

This procedure explains the process of setting up an Anti-Spam server called SpamTitan, The version 4.05 To download. This AntiSpam is available for download in an ISO to install on a physical server or there is also an ISO for use with VMware virtual machines. The official website is: www.spamtitan.com, There we can download some demos of 30 days, or we can directly connect to a SpamTitan demo that they have online at: HTTP://demo.spamtitan.com to play without having to install it, But it's not the same ;). As indicated on its website, for the 98,5% Spam, and has two antivirus solutions at once, that is why it is paid for one of them: Kaspersky and ClamAV; as well as email content control, Disclaimers in emails… En este enlace AKI, we have a comparison of the SpamTitan appliance against MV.

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 […]

Configuring RPC over HTTP or HTTPS in Exchange 2003 – Connecting Outlook from the outside

This procedure is very useful and safe, serves to enable our Outlook clients 2003 can connect to our MS Exchange server 2003 via web, using the 80 or the 443 (In Safe Mode) using Outlook from the Internet, from your home/hotel/office… so you don't have to use OWA. To do this, we will need to install an AC, One component, Registry Modifications and Nothing More.

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 […]

Installing and Configuring Veritas ReplicationExec 3.1

This procedure explains how to replicate data from one server to another, how to have them constantly replicated in case one server fails that are on the other. It's as simple as installing the ReplicationExec on one server and the agent on another; Once that is done, you simply have to say from which server you copy to which and which data. It can be made more complex with more servers, But this is an example. I'll install it all on a server called “HHH1 Tests” and then the agent in “HHH3 TESTS”, You always have to have a main server and another or others that have the Angentes that will be the ones to replicate the data, In this example we will replicate data from the server PRUEBASHHH1 to PRUEBASHHH3.

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.