Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 included a new feature, RDP over SSL. This feature will allow you to use TLS authentication and encryption with your RDP connections using SelfSSL to create the SSL certificate. It still uses RDP and TCP port 3389 so your firewall rules should not need to be modified. Before we get started there are a few pre-requisites on both the server side and client side that need to be met first. Server-side - The Terminal Server must run 2003 SP1 - The Terminal Server must Read more

Some times removing Corporate edition is not that easy. Don't worry that tool will do the job. Download the zipped file scscleanwipeto your desktop Warnings about SCSCleanWipe: SCSCleanWipe removes ALL Symantec products, not only the AntiVirus program. If you have other Symantec programs installed, make sure you can reinstall them after running SCSCleanWipe. The SCSCleanWipe User's Guide says: "...SCSCleanWipe is an unsupported Symantec tool provided as a fallback resource in case a regular Read more

NTFS Junction Points allow you to graft a target folder on another NTFS folder and 'mount' a volume onto an NTFS Junction Point. This effectively eliminates the 26 drive letter limitation.I actually used it for Ftp Isolation: restrict users to their own directories, but provide certain users the ability to read/write to all ftp user's directories. It is possible to do something like that using a hierarchy that resembles the following example: c:inetpub ftproot LocalUser User1 [junction] Read more

To add additional components to the Add/Remove Programs list (Windows Components):Tools/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden Files and Folders and Show Extensions for known file types. Then go to Windows Explorer/Inf Folder/Sysoc.inf (Double Click it). You will find several lines that include the word 'hide'. Simply remove the word 'hide' (but leave the comma). Save and exit. From there you will be able to remove it from add/remove.Add and Remove - Show All Files Windows XP doesn't let you add or Read more

Microsoft Windows The time zone database in most Windows-based computer systems stores only a single start and end rule for each zone, and daylight saving information is stored in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionTime Zones, under the TZI registry value. (In Windows XP and Windows 2003, timezone information is stored in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTimeZoneInformation). For example, DST ends on the last Sunday in October, Read more