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Sunday, February 24, 2008

How to use Blackberry 7100 as a modem

For those who don’t know, here are the steps:

1. Connect your BlackBerry 7100 (BB 7100) with computer through USB cable.
2. Activate the Blackberry Handheld Manager and or Blackberry Device Manager (Depends on the Blackberry software version) and make sure the status is connected to the device.
3. Open Device Manager. Expand Modems and double click on Standard Modem.
4. Go to advance tab, add extra initialization command +cgdcont=1,”IP”,”your_apn_name” (depends on your network provider).
For example I put; cgdcont=1,”IP”,”satelindogprs.com” for Indosat Network. Sometime you may have to put a different format such us; +cgdcont=1,”IP”,”satelindogprs.com”,””,0,0
5. After that, do a test query on your modem. You should see what type of modem, Research In Motion, etc.
6. Create a new Internet Connection. On number to dial type in *99#. Leave the password and username blank.
7. Last, depends on the Network Provider, you may have to enter the DNS server IP on TCP/IP Property. In my experience, most of the time leaving the DNS setting to be automatic should be fine. Confirm with your Network Provider about the IP or if you find any difficulty connecting to the Internet.
8. Dial the newly created connection and have fun trying.

How to configure a display message when users log on to the Windows 2003 domain

You can configure Windows Server to display a message to users when they log on. The message appears after the user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL and disappears after the user clicks OK. After the message disappears, the user can complete the logon process.

Configuring a Group Policy Setting for a Domain:
1. On the domain controller, start the Group Policy Management snap-in.
2. Expand the forest object in the left pane.
3. Expand the domains object in the left pane. Expand yourdomain.
4. Right Click Default Domain Policy, and then click Edit.
5. Expand the following folder:
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings \Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options
6. In the right pane, double-click Policies, and then follow these steps to create the message text:

> On a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller:
a. Click Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on, and then type the text that you want to appear in the title bar of the message dialog box.
b. Click Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on, and then type the text of the message that you want to appear in the message dialog box.
> On a Windows 2000-based domain controller:
a. Click Message title for users attempting to log on, and then type the text that you want to appear in the title bar of the message dialog box.
b. Click Message text for users attempting to log on, and then type the text of the message that you want to appear in the message dialog box


Note: If you do not use carriage returns in your display message, the maximum number of characters that you can add to the logon box is 512. If you add carriage returns, you can add up to 2048 characters (512 characters per line).

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Managing Distribution/Security group membership from Microsoft Outlook

We can manage the membership of a distribution or security group through Microsoft Outlook if they have an email address setup.
1. Go to the user properties at Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. Click the Managed By tab, click change, choose the name to be the manager of the group.
3. Give check mark on the ‘Manager can update membership list’.

To modify the membership through Microsoft Outlook
1. At Microsoft Outlook, open Address Book
2. Double click on the distribution group name.
3. Under the distribution group properties, click Modify Members.
4. Under Distribution List Membership, click Add. Choose the name to be the member of the distribution list.
5. Click OK 3 times.

How to setup an automatic reply in Outlook 2003/Outlook 2007

The following is done from Microsoft Outlook:
1. On the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts.
2. In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, click the New Rule button on the E-mail Rules tab.
3. In the Rules Wizard, click the Start from a blank rule button, click Check messages when they arrive, and then click Next.
4. Under Which condition(s) do you want to check?, click to select the Sent Only To Me check box or any other check box that you want, and then click Next.
5. Under What do you want to do with the message?, click to select the Have server reply using a specific template check box.
6. On the Step 2: Edit the Rule Description page of the wizard; click the underlined phrase a specific message.
7. Compose a reply message in the Outlook Editor window. Fill in the subject field, click save and close.
8. Complete the Rules Wizard instructions, click Finish, and then click OK.

Since this is a server based rule, we don’t have to keep the outlook open in order for the rule to be applied.
Note: By default exchange doesn’t allow automatic reply message to be send to external user. You must allow it through Exchange System Manager.

Networking Infrastructure in Windows 2008 – What’s new?

>Installation
Simplified windows configuration
All versions are available in single DVD. Choose which version during installation.
After Installation we can configure the server through Initial Configuration Task Overview.
(Setup the administrator username & password, IP, domain/workgroup, windows update, windows firewall, etc)
Have configurable Server Roles and Features.
All configurations are done through Server Manager Console.
Example of Server Roles: AD Domain Service, DNS, DHCP, File Server, etc
Example of Features: Failover Clustering, Storage Manager for SAN, etc
>Networking
Truly support IPv6 – 128 bit
Network Access Protection availability
Non-comply computer can be directed to isolated segment or denied access
>Server Core Installation
No GUI
For Installation of Role Functionality in Windows 2008
We cannot install other application here.
For better performance and security
>Windows backup
VSS enable on Drive directly
Backup to Bootable CD/DVD
Default backup schedule is full + incremental
>Windows Deployment Service
The Next of RIS
For Installing OS and or Application
Several Image type: Boot Image, Install Image, Capture Image, Discover Image
>Windows Server Virtualization
The Next of Virtual Server 2005
Differencing support on VHD files
Virtual Network use VLAN ID for better performance
Dedicated Processor/RAM blocking on WSV for certain Guest Computer
Support x-64 guest OS
>Clustering & NLB
No more need for a VLAN for geo clustering
No 500 ms limitation for heartbeat

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