Capture a Printer Port

Windows 2000/XP Instructions  Unfortunately under Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP there is no easy way to “capture” a printer port from within the Printer’s properties dialog. To use a network printer under Windows NT/2000/XP you must use the NET command from a command prompt (or batch file) to redirect the printer port to …

Working with Multiple Local GPOs in Windows Vista

Local GPOs are used to allow the administrator of a Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista computer to configure security and registry settings for the computer. LGPOs allow the administrator to do so in absence of an Active Directory-based GPO infrastructure. Windows Vista has the ability to create multiple local group policies (GPOs). Wow! This means that whenever you …

Working with Group Policy

This article deals with the mechanism of deploying and verifying GPO deployment. It will not deal in the GPO itself and the settings inside it (these settings and configurations will be discussed in different articles). Full Article

Updating Intelligent Message Filter in Exchange Server 2003 SP2

Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter is a product developed by Microsoft to help companies reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), or spam, received by users. Intelligent Message Filter version 2 feature that is included with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 can be configured to auto-update itself, thus keeping it current and effective, and up-to-date …

Traffic Shaping With VMware ESX Server

How do you go about setting up a virtual lab that simulates real-world scenarios of multiple offices, slow WAN links, AD site replication issues, costs and so on? We, as IT professionals, often require these types of complex labs in order to test out our infrastructure configuration and design, but we’d like to do it …

Recovering a Failed Exchange 2003 Member Server Using the Disaster Recovery Switch

What could be worse than facing a seriously corrupted mailbox store? Yes you guessed right – facing a completely dead Exchange Server. In this article I’ll shine some light on the steps necessary in order to restore an Exchange 2003 Member Server, that have experienced a major hardware failure causing a complete loss of data. …

Publishing OWA 2003 with ISA Server 2004

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 has made a significant breakthrough in publishing Secured web-sites in general and Outlook Web Accesses specifically. We don’t need another exchange server for use as a front-end server if the only job we need it for is protecting our internal exchange server which holds our mailboxes. Before we begin …

Problems in Synchronizing a Pocket PC with Exchange Server 2003

As written in my other article (How to Synchronize a Pocket PC with Exchange 2003?), Exchange Server 2003 has many new features tailored for mobile users. One of them is ActiveSync which can be used to establish a connection between your Pocket PC 2002 or 2003 and Exchange Server 2003. If you have an Internet …