This will change your Local Area Connection to DHCP while also setting your homepage in IE to your choice (edit the last line with your website). Note: You will need to enter the exact name for the network adapter you want to change. For example if you wanted to change your wireless to DHCP.
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***Note that when you stop the print spooler service and delete the print jobs, you will have to delete ALL of the current print jobs as there is no way to tell one print job from another. Step 1: First go to Start, then Run and type in services.msc. Scroll down to the Print Spooler service, right-click on it and choose Stop.
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There are 2 diffident ways of finding what your current kms key count is. They both do the same but some may prefer one way over the other. Note you will need to run this on the server which is hosting your key First Way Open up My Comptuer and navigate to C:WindowsSystem32 Hold shift and right click in
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After searching online for a few days I couldn’t find a batch file that would backup a users My Documents, Desktop, and Favorites for both XP and Windows 7 to their own personal network folder. Of course this script can be altered to backup anywhere you would like. Example – external hard drive, flash drive, local machine…. So
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Our WDS (Windows Deployment System) has been working like a dream. Unicast and Multicast. I’ve created a new Windows XP Pro x86 image, uploaded it, deployed it to verify it worked. Took the laptop (Its our portable WDS since we have some schools still on T1’s) setup and created the multicast channel. Fired up 5 machines and
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Step 1 Stop both WDS Services Step 2 Copy your RemoteInstall directory. By default its located C:RemoteInstall (REMINST) unless you changed your directory. Step 3 Navigate to your new server where your will be copying the files to. Quick tip: You can navigate to your servers C: from your old server. Open up a run
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How to Enable/Disable Windows Firewall with Group Policy Windows Sever 2008 R2 Steps Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
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Using Group Policy to enable Remote Desktop Connection on domain PC’s Windows Server 2008 R2 Steps: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections > Allow users to connect remotely using Remote Desktop Services
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Today we implemented Microsoft Volume Licensing. It was a pretty painless setup. We installed VAMT on our WDS server. Remember for each product (win7, office pro, server08) you must have 5 activating in order for VAMT to auto actiavte products from then on. Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0
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This was just released on the Microsoft Blog. Windows 8 upgrades will be only $49! This is an impressive step for Microsoft seeing as the previous upgrades were pushing a hundred. We set out to make it as easy as possible for everyone to upgrade to Windows 8. Starting at general availability, if your PC
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