How to Create a VPN

 

 

How to Create a VPN

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

2:57 PM

Your computer at work must be turned on, connected to the network, and have Remote Desktop Connection enabled

 

 

 

At Home:

Click on the Start Button and type rasphone

 

 

 

You may get a warning that the phone book is empty

Click ok.

 

Choose Workplace VPN

 

 

Fill in the information below:

 

 

 

Your VPN will be created. Now to configure.

Click on properties

 

Click the security tab and choose PPP point to point

 

Click on the networking tab, Internet protocol Version 4, properties

 

 

 

Click advanced

 

Under IP settings, uncheck "use default gateway on remote network"

Click OK three times to get back to this screen

 

 

Click connect

 

Your username and password should be saved at this point.

If not, re-enter them here.

 

 

Click connect again.

 

 

It will say, verifying username and password

Then Registering on network.

 

You can verify you are connected by clicking the little computer

 

Next click on start again and type "mstsc"

 

 

Type the IP address of your work desktop:

 

Click on options

And then save as

 

Call it whatever you would like and save it to your desktop

 

 

Now that you have VPN and the Remote Desktop connection set up, you can click here to connect the VPN

 

 

Click Connect

 

Then double click on the icon that you called work computer

It will come up to a Control + Alt + Delete Screen

Log in as usual.

 

 

 

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RPC Server Not Available

 

 

RPC Server Error

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

 

Had users that could not log into the Terminal Server. After entering credentials, they would get “No RPC Server Available” error.

Restarted this service. It was stopped.

 

 

 

Change HAL in Vmware server 2003

 

 

Change HAL in Vmware server 2003

Monday, March 26, 2012

Have a server 2003 configured to have four vCPU's. However, when you look at task manager, only one CPU is listed. Vmware even warns about this in the configuration.

 

 

 

 

When you look in device manager, you find that this virtual has a single processor HAL

 

 

Trying to update the driver reveals that only a single processor HAL is loaded on this machine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Multi-PC HAL listed.

 

To upgrade the HAL from single to Multi-PC, insert the Server 2003 install disc and reboot. (Hint - if you are using a Vmware virtual, restart the server while you have the cursor in the console session. As soon as the server resets, start pressing F2 to bring up the Vmware Bios settings. Change the boot order to boot from CDROM)

 

 

 

 

When you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or Raid Driver" start pressing F5

 

 

 

 

Press enter

 

Agree to the license (F8)

 

Then, R=Repair

 

 

The repair will continue…

You will need your product key to finish the repair.

 

When completed, the server will reboot. When you log in, the HAL should be set to Multiprocessor PC

 

 

 

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FW: Vmware VM won't boot with 2 IDE drives

Vmware VM won't boot with Two IDE drives

Friday, March 23, 2012

Had a 2003 server that I virtualized. I added a second IDE drive while the VM was running (Vmware licensed for Enterprise).

After shutting it down, it would not boot. I discovered that the drive with the OS had become drive 2 so Windows picked it up as drive D instead of Drive C.

I removed the drive 1 and rebooted.

I went back in and added the second drive as a SCSI drive.

Vmware will pick up the IDE drive before the SCSI drives, thus avoiding the original problem.

Changing User Name in AD Users and Computers

Can change the user name

 
 

 
 

 
 

Uncheck the automatically update email addresses. Email address won't be changed

Restart Information Store

How to Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Service
Topic Last Modified: 2005-05-13
The core data storage repository for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 is the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, which contains both mailbox store and public folder store data. The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service uses a database engine called Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), which is a transaction-based database technology.
In some troubleshooting instances or when moving from mixed to native mode, you may need to restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.
Procedure
To restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service
On the Start menu, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.
In the Results pane, find the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service.
Right-click the service, and then click Restart.

Net Send

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Net Send [user name or computer] [message]

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