Distributing Adobe Reader using Group policies
by Mats Hellman on 29.Oct, 2009 under Uncategorized
I see a lot of search engine traffic to this site when people are trying to find out how to deploy Adobe Reader using Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO’s). Since I wrote my previous two articles Adobe has changed their policy a bit. You need to ask them for a distribution license.
Setting up SSL-VPN in an Windows Server 2008 environment part 2
by Mats Hellman on 29.Oct, 2009 under Networking, Remote Access, VPN, Vista, Windows
Yesterday we setup our server to be able to handle the remote access requests. If you haven’t read the first part of this guide you can find it here. Today we will be taking a look at the next step.
Setting up SSL-VPN in an Windows Server 2008 environment
by Mats Hellman on 28.Oct, 2009 under Active Directory, Remote Access, VPN, Windows
In this 2 part series we will look at setting up SSL-VPN using Windows Server 2008. At the end on the next part you will be able to configure a Windows Vista or Windows 7 client to connect to the corporate network using SSL-VPN ( SSTP ). To test this scenario you need some previous knowledge of Windows Server System and Active Directory in particular. We will be using Active Directory to logon to VPN and control user access using it. If you, like me, don’t feel like testing in an production environment you can set this lab up in an Virtual PC or Virtual Server environment. I will not be going trough setting up Windows Server 2008 AD DS in this article. I expect you to have your domain up and running. To run this lab you will need the following
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running HEL-DC1
- AD DS
- DHCP
- DNS
- AD CS ( Certificate Services Enterprise CA)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise running HEL-NAT
- 2 network interfaces – External and internal
- Windows Vista Business Edition
- Service Pack 2
Sites forcing users to use Ad-blockers.
by Mats Hellman on 26.Oct, 2009 under Nixadmins.net
As some of you (the ones who don’t use Ad-blockers) might have noticed, I run Google Adsense on my site. So far the income has been very low and it has been running for almost 2 years now. The idea was to try to cover hosting expenses using advertising programs but that failed. Because of this I’m currently looking into some other advertising providers who do not provide ads that make the user feel sick.
IP Subnetting made easy on TechRepublic
by Mats Hellman on 25.Oct, 2009 under Networking, Windows
If you’ve read my posts you’ve seen I’m trying to get my Microsoft Certified IT Professional status. This means getting reacquainted with things I went trough in school but have since forgot. One of these things is IP Subnetting. So I needed to find a good guide to refresh my memory. Googling I found there are many guides out there, but this one is mine (a little Full metal Jacket joke), but I found one on Techrepublic that was really in-depth and easy to follow. The writer, George Ou knows what he is talking about and makes following his writings easy. If you don’t have the time to read the whole article at least take a look at the part where he is using the Windows standard calculators AND function. Did you know about that?
