In the last post we installed Active Directory on Windows 2008, and we were advised by the AD installation wizard to install DNS right after the reboot. DNS is a required component in order for active directory to work properly. Is highly recommended that you have a healthy DNS server running on your network before you start playing with active…

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One of the biggest problems I have seen with office 2007 is the new.XML format. When people receive documents created in this new format and they are using an older office suite they need to download the Microsoft compatibility pack to be able to open files created in the new format. . File created with Office 2007 are saved with…

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As you probably know Active Directory stores information about objects on the network and makes this information available to users and network administrators. AD uses domain controllers to give network users access to permitted resources anywhere on the network through a single logon process.  In this article I will go through the installation of active directory on Windows server 2008.…

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If for some reason you want Outlook to prompt you to enter the username and password to sync with your mail server when it opens, then do following: Go to Control Panel and click on the Mail applet. The mail setup wizard will come up: Click on the E-mail Accounts button. the Account Settings window will come up next. Click on the Change Button.…

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when using Remote Desktop on Windows XP to connect to a Windows 2008 Server you might get the following error: The remote computer requires network level authentication, which your computer does not support. for assistance, contact your system administrator for technical support. Network Level Authentication is a new authentication method on Windows Vista and Server 2008 that completes user authentication…

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Awhile back I installed a custom build of Windows XP on a developer’s computer, and a few days later he was trying to install IIS on such computer and he got some errors. Of course, he called me immediately to help him out with the IIS installation. The error he was getting when clicking on the “Add/Remove Windows Components” button…

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If for some reason you can’t change the product key of your Server 2008 under the My Computer Windows Activation option: Do the following. Open the command prompt and change working directory to System32 directory Type in slmgr.vbs -ckms (this clears and KMS entry you may have) Type slmgr.vbs -upk (this removes any product key installed) Type slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx…

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After Installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003, OWA was not working, After checking the ISS Manager folder structure, I got the following error when trying to open the Exchange directory. Troubleshooting the problem. After collecting information from the Internet, I got into the task of troubleshooting the problem. The first thing you need to do is…

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I’ve been running Windows Server 2003 for testing purposes on a VMware Server Machine for a while now, but I never had the opportunity to install an exchange server on it, until today. Even though I have installed exchange server 2003 many times at work, this is the first time I write about the full installation. Let’s get started. To…

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After installing Windows 2008 on my VMware Server virtual machine, the first thing I did was to install an anti-virus software. I won’t be browsing the Internet on this server, but it will be always connected to the network, so just in case a Trojan horse tries to find a haven on this machine, is better to have an anti-virus installed. …

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