Today I will be installing Microsoft Server 2008 on VMware 2.0 for my testing lab; this server will eventually be my testing domain controller. Read my previous article How To Create a Virtual Machine on VMware 2.0 to get up to date on what we have been up to. Getting The Server Ready If you don’t have Windows Server 2008, download the…

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A few days ago I wrote about how to setup Outlook using RPC over HTTP Setup Outlook with RPC Over HTTP and one of the things I mentioned in the article was to choose Basic Authentication under Proxy Authentication Settings. But as you might have found out, Outlook prompts for the user name and password every time it opens which is annoying to…

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Ubuntu is probably the most popular Linux distribution, and if you work in the IT field, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get familiar with it. Ubuntu can be run from a Live CD so you don’t need to install it to start using it, but another alternative is to run it from a virtual PC. Today, we will…

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If you are using Windows offline files to sync files to a remote network shared drive, then you probably know that you cannot sync up folders bigger than 2 GB. If you have tried to increase the cache size limit in the offline folder settings, then you know that after closing the window it goes back to default settings which…

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When installing software like office 2003 becomes a daily routine on your job, is time to start looking for a way to automate those tasks. Getting Ready there are many ways to automate the installation of office 2003, but the easiest one is using the Office 2003 resource kit from Microsoft. the first thing you need to do is to…

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Have you noticed that when you login to terminal server the local printers installed on your computer automatically get mapped on terminal server, and when you print something on terminal server it automatically print to your local printer? yes, is cool when terminal server recognizes the printers and everything works like magic, but when the printers don’t get recognized things…

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RPC over HTTP is a technology introduced in Outlook 2003 and Windows XP to connect to an Exchange server without using a connection like VPN, dial-up, or terminal server. you only need an Internet connection. many organizations use certificate to connect to their internal network, in that case you need to install the certificate first, and then setup the RPC…

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