License a Terminal Server on Windows 2003

To be able to work with Terminal Services for more than 90 days you need to buy licenses and activate them. The part of buying them we leave to the Department. Commercial :), Here's how to install them on a server so that they don't expire and users can work perfectly. This procedure explains how to license a Windows 2000 Server, but it's exactly the same for a Windows server 2003.

Securing our LAN using IPSec, between Microsoft Windows 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP

IPSec is a network traffic encryption protocol. In this procedure I do a test of how to encrypt communications between a client PC (XP) and a server (2003). The server 2003 has the IP 192.168.0.3 and has FTP server enabled, the thing is that the XP is connected to the FTP server to download some files, but between those two PCs there is a 'kapuyo'’ With a sniff, and since FTP traffic and almost everything on the network is unencrypted then the 'kapuyo’ has taken out the password with which the XP has been authenticated in the 2003, all this happens in the same network, in the same domain (XP and 2003 At least). In order for all traffic to the server to be encrypted I will enable the IPSec services and on the client also to talk to each other in 'IPSec'.

Upgrade to Microsoft Windows 2003 R2

This procedure explains how to update a Windows environment 2003 to Windows 2003 R2. If it were a Windows 2003 No roles in the active directory could be upgraded seamlessly, it just puts the Windows CD2 in 2003 R2 and install with the wizard. But things change if you have a role in the active directory or if you, we directly want to migrate our domain to an R2 version of 2003.

Automated installation of Microsoft Windows using response files – Unattended setup answer file

This is for, Even the administrators work less!! 😀 Or good, If not, that, our work is more comfortable, if you waste a lot of time installing PCs with MS Windows and it's always the same, with the same data, or similar, I mean the data from when you install Windows, The data you ask for, So much NAMEPC, DOMAIN, RED Configuration, Serial Number… to install a Windows CD and totally go from asking us and getting the answers from a floppy disk, prepare what's called a response file, or “Unattended Setup Answer File”. We can put it together with the RIS (HERE) and the use of distributed software (HERE) to make it even more convenient to install a PC in a domain and its respective applications/configurations.

Change DNS servers on the stations using a script

This is useful when we are performing a server migration, in the event that we are going to change the IP address DNS servers or the server DNS server, we must change its DNS servers in all positions. The posts may be configured with a dynamic IP address so the change is very simple and we will change it only on the DHCP server. But.. What happens if our posts have a fixed IP address? That we should change the 'Preferred DNS Server'’ and the 'Alternate DNS Server'’ or manually or with the help of a simple script that we can put in the login of the posts through a GPO.

Migrate DHCP Server to Another Server with DHCPexim

This procedure explains how to move the DB from our DHCP to another server, It doesn't matter the S.O. of origin, how if we migrate from NT4 to NT4, NT4 to 2003, a 2000, of 2003 to 2003… The first thing we will need is the DHCPexim, The tool that migrates, download from AKI. And we start installing it on the server from which we want to migrate the DHCP service, then once exported to a text file we will install the DHCPexim on the destination server to import that file, More details:

Configuring DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

When we set up a net, Or when we migrate one and it has a fixed address, we remember how good it would be to have a DHCP server set up and forget about the issue of going post by post modifying any network data. DHCP is used to save a network administrator work, IPs are configured from the server, a range of IP addresses to be assigned to the positions is established and that's it, We can also include, all the data that interests us apart from the IP, such as, What is the gateway, DNS, WINS and many more. We can assign the duration of the IPs in the clients, by default are 8 days. We can reserve IPs by MAC addresses. And see the list of assigned IP addresses.

Distributed File System – DFS + Replication – DFS-R

One of the new features brought by Microsoft Windows 2003 RC2 is the new console for configuring DFS and configuring replicas that now work perfectly. The most important thing is that you have to have the RC2 version on the servers that are going to have the DFS root. To upgrade to the RC2, just install the CD2 of the distribution, install the new components. And if you want to update the domain to the version 2003 RC2, you have to execute the ADPREP that also comes in CD2 (adprep /forestprep). This document explains the DFS for the Windows version 2000 or 2003 – HERE.