Thursday, June 16, 2011

GeeMail, whats this?

You know some times we loss access to internet, and you need to access your mails in gmail. You need to check a mail urgently. This is where GeeMail comes handy, this is a Desktop client for Gmail, its a free download. once you install this you can access your gmail mail account offline. this would be great, right? yes you can have access to all the mail when there no broadband connection. its just a browser, which requires no configuration.
you can download this from the link below:
GeeMail

Use of UPN Suffix in windows 2003?



Suppose you have a company domain as microsoftsccm.com, as users when they log in they many feel the domain name is too long, so we as administrator can set up Alternative UPN 
(user principle name), upn-suffix which is set:

We need to go to AD domains and trusts àright click on AD domains and trusts node-àproperties -à and add UPN suffix as micro.com, so now users can log with this micro.com also.

Now you need to go to each users or select all bunch of users, go to there properties àaccounts tab and select UPN suffix and select micro.com

Define UPN SUFFIX in windows 2003?


Upn suffix(user principle name): can just be used by admins for users to log on easily or it can also be a DNS domain name.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Smart card in windows 2003?


Users will be provided smart cards and a smart card reader will be attached to computer, users insert smart cards and login to the domain. For users using smart-cards to login the “Password never expires” option will be enabled automatically.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Define Isa firewall ?


Isa firewall is a statefull packet inspection firewall
Isa will integrate with AD and allows users to authenticate and authorizes them to view sites, ISA server is not only a firewall but also a web caching server and VPN server
Stateful packet inspection means that the firewall will see the TCP conversation

Private IP address


10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.254
172.16.0.0—172.31.255.254
192.168.0.1—192.168.255.254

Friday, June 10, 2011

What are the new features we get after moving the domain functional level to windows 2003?


Universal groups
Group nesting
Converstion of groups to different types
SID history
Rename domains
Track on time stamp
Inetorgperson object

Windows server 2003 Printer Tutorial


Printer---software device
Printer device—hardware device

Local printer: attached directly to a computer
Network printer: connected to a HUB or switch

The print drivers are installed on a print server and are shared.

Printer priority: 99 highest, ex: if we have 2 printers make the priority for one printer as 10 and the other one 5. So the higher priority will print first, same for the print schedule

Separator page: Create a separator page and which separates bundle of pages, ex: when you want to print 100 pages, but 50/50 should be separated, so once 50 pages are printed out, you will receive a separator page.

We can open the print server using a web browser, but, u need to have IIS installed. On the print server
 From the client machine, http: // izone/printer

When we configure a local printer we can select ports as LPT1 etc, but, when we need to configure a network printer then we need to add tcp/ip port

Group policy—computer settings—printer settings—pre-populate printers in AD
When every any user search for printer they are already pre-populated in AD