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How to Create security-enhanced redirected folders

To make sure that only the user and the domain administrators have permissions to open a particular redirected folder, do the following: 1. Select a central location in your environment where you would like to store Folder Redirection, and then share this folder. In this example, FLDREDIR is used. 2. Set Share Permissions for the [...]

How to enable and to configure Remote Desktop for Administration in Windows Server 2003

By default, Remote Desktop for Administration is disabled. To enable it, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click System. 2. Click the Remote tab, click to select the Allow users to connect remotely to your computer check box, and then click OK. Note You do not have to have a [...]

How to limit the number of connections on a terminal server that runs Windows Server 2003

How to limit the number of remote sessions on a terminal server loadTOCNode(2, ‘summary’); 1. To open the Terminal Services Configuration Tool, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Terminal Services Configuration. 2. In the console tree, click Connections. 3. In the right pane, right-click RDP-Tcp, and then click Properties. 4. On the [...]

How To: Copy User Profiles from One Domain to Another

To copy a profile to another domain and assign a user permission to use the profile: 1. In Control Panel, double-click System. 2. Click the User Profiles tab, click the profile, and then click Copy To. 3. Type the path to the folder where user profiles are stored, or click Browse to locate the folder. [...]

How to Create and Copy Roaming User Profiles in Windows

Create a Roaming Profile To create a roaming profile, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu that appears. 2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under User Profiles. 3. In the Profiles stored on this computer list, click the profile that you want. [...]

How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000

Set Quotas On NTFS Volume loadTOCNode(2, ‘moreinformation’); Disk quotas are based on file ownership and are independent of the folder location of the user’s files within the volume. For example, if users move their files from one folder to another on the same volume, their volume space usage does not change. However, if users copy [...]

How to configure Network Address Translation in Windows Server 2003

To configure the Routing and Remote Access and the Network Address Translation components, your computer must have at least two network interfaces: one connected to the Internet and the other one connected to the internal network. You must also configure the network translation computer to use Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). If you use dial-up [...]

How To Configure a VPN Server to Act as a Router in Windows Server 2003

To configure the server to act as a VPN server and a router: 1. Start the Routing and Remote Access Server Setup Wizard a. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Routing and Remote Access. b. In the Routing and Remote Access utility, click your server, and then click Configure and Enable Routing [...]

How To Install and Configure a DHCP Server in a Workgroup in Windows Server 2003

How to Install the DHCP Service Before you can configure the DHCP service, you must install it on the server. DHCP is not installed by default during a typical installation of Windows Standard Server 2003 or Windows Enterprise Server 2003. You can install DHCP either during the initial installation of Windows Server 2003 or after [...]

How to install and configure a DHCP server

Installing the DHCP Service You can install DHCP either during or after the initial installation of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, although there must be a working DNS in the environment. To validate your DNS server, click Start, click Run, type cmd, press ENTER, type ping friendly name of an existing DNS server in [...]

How to Configure the DNS Server in Windows

To configure DNS by using the DNS snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC), follow these steps: 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DNS. 2. Right-click Forward lookup zones, and then click New Zone 3. When the New Zone Wizard starts, click Next. You are prompted for a zone [...]

How to Install Microsoft DNS Server

Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs. 2. Click Add or Remove Windows Components. 3. In the Components list, click Networking Services (but do not select or clear the check box), and then click Details. 4. Click to select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, and then click [...]

How to Add Users to Group in Windows 2003

After you create the new user, give this user account membership in a group that permits that user to perform administrative tasks. Because this is a laboratory environment that you are in control of, you can give this user account full administrative access by making it a member of the Schema, Enterprise, and Domain administrators [...]

How to take Backup in windows XP

Open Windows XP Backup Windows XP includes its own backup program, although you may need to do some digging to find it. You can also take your pick of third-party programs (listed at the end of this column) that add bells and whistles you won’t find in the basic Windows XP Backup utility. If you [...]

How to Set permissions for folders and files In Windows Xp

If you have multiple computers connected to your home network and have enabled file sharing, you can open and access files located on other computers on the network. Being able to share files makes computing a lot more flexible for everyone using the network. If you have your files stored on your home office desktop [...]