The Advanced TCP/IP dialog will allow you to configure settings relative to DNS, WINS and specify multiple IP Addresses and Gateways. To bring up the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog, simply right click the desired connection from the Network Connections f...
The IP addresses box at the top allows you to assign additional IP Addresses to a single network card. This is useful if you are hosting multiple websites on the same web server and want to give each its own IP Address for example.
Simply click the Add...
The "DNS server addresses, in order of use box" at the top of the DNS tab is used to list the IP Addresses of the DNS Servers that will be used for name resolution. These servers are ordered and used in priority, so if one server does not work then it wil...
The WINS tab is used to specify WINS related settings such as the list of WINS servers to be used for NETBIOS name to IP resolution, the LMHOSTS file to be used as an alternate means of lookups and the NETBIOS settings for the network connection.
Use t...
The Options tab allows you to configure TCP/IP Filtering settings; you can define which ports or protocols are permitted. Select the Permit Only radio button and use the Add button to add TCP/UDP port numbers or a protocol version to the respective list. ...
To enable the RDP service on Windows Server 2003 follow the next steps:
1.
Go to Control Panel.
2.
Click System.
3.
Go to the Remote tab.
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Select the "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" box.
5.
Click Ok.
Note:...
Even if you will not be using Terminal Services or have any other users using your server it is ALWAYS recommended to create an additional two (2) users, apart from Administrator. These two users are - another member of the "Administrators" group (to avoi...
You can change a Windows User Account password that is on any Windows computer from any other Windows computer regardless of whether the User Account is on a workstation, a stand-alone server, or a Windows domain controller. Additionally, it makes no diff...
how to do it…
The Microsoft remote desktop client can be found in %systemroot%/system32/mstsc.exe. Running this program with no extensions will bring up the remote desktop connection program. However, mstsc.exe has a full set of switches that can be ...
You can launch Control Panel apps from the command line, and here's a list of .cpl files for your reference:
Accessibility Options
access.cpl
Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl
Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl
Bl...
If you are used to using the ping command to test networks for connectivity and the presence of hosts, you be surprised to find that pinging a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 computer sometimes won't work. That's because if Windows Firewall is running ...
A virtual private network is the extension of a private network that encompasses links across shared or public networks like the Internet. With a VPN, you can send data between two computers across a shared or public network in a manner that emulates a po...
Right click on the desktop and go to Properties, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshooting, and set the Hardware acceleration bar to Full.
CALs in Windows Server 2003 are different from CALs in Microsoft Windows 2000. Windows 2000 only uses Device CALs. These CALs are tied to a device. Windows Server 2003 uses Device CALs, and it also uses a new client access license, User CALs. Device CALs ...
This article describes the Conditional Forwarding feature that is included in Windows Server 2003. A Windows Server 2003-based DNS server can use conditional forwarding to forward queries to other DNS servers based on the DNS domain names that are in the ...
When you upgrade Windows 2000 Server that is running Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Server 2003, clients computers that are running the Microsoft Firewall Client cannot connect to the Interne...
