Customizing Windows CDs with nLite

nLite es una herramienta bastante útil para los administradores de red, nos permite crear un CD de Windows con los últimos parches y service packs en él, además de poder meterle drivers adicionales que no vengan con el CD de Windows y meterle los odiosos drivers que se suelen meter pulsando F6 con una disketera; por supuesto que tiene mil usos más, además de ser totalmente gratuito.

How to migrate printers on client PCs

En este procedimiento se explica cómo actualizar las impresoras clientes cuando se migran de servidor. Si por ejemplo migramos todas las impresoras de un servidor a otro, habría que ir PC a PC cambiandoles el PATH de la impresora origen, por ejemplo de servidorORIGENimpresora1 a servidorDESTINOimpresora1. Pues se crearía un script y lo pondría en el inicio de los PC’s o en la SYSVOL, o de la forma que interese, pero lo deberían de ejecutar los PC’s clientes de la forma que sea.

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'.

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.