How to save a mapped drive password in XP
The manage network passwords utility in XP doesnt have an add password function so you have to go to the command prompt and use the following :
NET USE U: \\NETHOME\USERID /PERSISTENT:YES /SAVECRED
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Windows Server 2008 as a primary desktop environment
Okay, so the Linux experiment is over... Next time I will stick to a VM when making such a drastic change!
I am beginning to study for my MCITP Server 2K8 and so I thought it would be a great idea to install it as my primary OS on my laptop.
I researched a couple of websites before taking the plunge:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/archive/2008/02/11/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-super-desktop-os.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/paulomorgado/archive/2008/05/14/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-desktop-operating-system.aspx
The install was a piece of cake and adding the features was simple enough. The main gotchas are drivers. drivers drivers drivers..
My laptop is fairly new, a Dell Latitude E6400 w/ P8400 2.26GHz Core 2Duo and 4GB of RAM so I knew I had enough horsepower but finding the correct chipset and graphics drivers turned into a bit of a struggle.
Dell didn't help so you have to go to the manufacturer.
This site helped A TON! http://www.ma-config.com/accueil_en.html
It allows you to see the actual Manufacturer part number, then you can search on their site for pre-release and beta drivers.
I finally found that I needed a graphics driver and a graphics accelerator driver for everything to be happy.
Ok so initial take,
Pros: quick boot, I was able to pick the 'features' i wanted and none I didn't, really fast install, and instant access to all enterprise level administration tools.
Cons: mainly just the driver support.
I was able to install all my applications Office2k7, dameware, firefox, chrome, wireshark, etc with no problems.
So far this laptop is solid.. Next task will be setting up VMWare and testing performance..
I am beginning to study for my MCITP Server 2K8 and so I thought it would be a great idea to install it as my primary OS on my laptop.
I researched a couple of websites before taking the plunge:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/archive/2008/02/11/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-super-desktop-os.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/paulomorgado/archive/2008/05/14/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-desktop-operating-system.aspx
The install was a piece of cake and adding the features was simple enough. The main gotchas are drivers. drivers drivers drivers..
My laptop is fairly new, a Dell Latitude E6400 w/ P8400 2.26GHz Core 2Duo and 4GB of RAM so I knew I had enough horsepower but finding the correct chipset and graphics drivers turned into a bit of a struggle.
Dell didn't help so you have to go to the manufacturer.
This site helped A TON! http://www.ma-config.com/accueil_en.html
It allows you to see the actual Manufacturer part number, then you can search on their site for pre-release and beta drivers.
I finally found that I needed a graphics driver and a graphics accelerator driver for everything to be happy.
Ok so initial take,
Pros: quick boot, I was able to pick the 'features' i wanted and none I didn't, really fast install, and instant access to all enterprise level administration tools.
Cons: mainly just the driver support.
I was able to install all my applications Office2k7, dameware, firefox, chrome, wireshark, etc with no problems.
So far this laptop is solid.. Next task will be setting up VMWare and testing performance..
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Switching Laptop to Linux as primary OS
I started the process to move my base OS to linux last weekend. After screwing around with Fedora 10 & 11 for most of the time I am now happily running Ubuntu Hardy with VMWare Server 2.0 running a copy of Windows Server 2008 which I'm using for testing and Administration.
Pros: the goodness of a linux based OS, access to 100's if not 1000's of open source packages, The coolest Graphical Environment (compiz fusion).
Cons: it took 6 hours to get dual monitors working and it's still not perfect. Can't connect to Exchange 2007 with Evolution except through IMAP which doesn't allow me to use calendar functionality.
Overall, I'd say I was a very entrenched Windows user who is having the normal growing pains from being in a new environment.
I look forward to working a bit more on the graphics support and learning my shell commands as well as I did before.
Pros: the goodness of a linux based OS, access to 100's if not 1000's of open source packages, The coolest Graphical Environment (compiz fusion).
Cons: it took 6 hours to get dual monitors working and it's still not perfect. Can't connect to Exchange 2007 with Evolution except through IMAP which doesn't allow me to use calendar functionality.
Overall, I'd say I was a very entrenched Windows user who is having the normal growing pains from being in a new environment.
I look forward to working a bit more on the graphics support and learning my shell commands as well as I did before.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Cisco MWI (message waiting indicator)
MWI light in cisco admin go to feature-> MWI-> look for the number s and see if they work
typically 540, 541
typically 540, 541
Windows stop services remotely through script
Network administrators can run this commend just fine on their local machines: SC \\Servername Stop Spooler
Exchange 2007 OAB Replication Check
check your OAB replication by:
get-offlineaddressbook |fl
Write down the Guid of the address book that needs to replicate then navigate to
c:\program files\microsoft\exchange server\client access\OAB
Check to make sure the only folder is the one with your guid you wrote down earlier.
get-offlineaddressbook |fl
Write down the Guid of the address book that needs to replicate then navigate to
c:\program files\microsoft\exchange server\client access\OAB
Check to make sure the only folder is the one with your guid you wrote down earlier.
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