Archive for October, 2009

Distributing Adobe Reader using Group policies

Posted: 29th October 2009 by Mats Hellman in 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.

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.

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 [...]

Sites forcing users to use Ad-blockers.

Posted: 26th October 2009 by Mats Hellman in Nixadmins.net
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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 [...]

IP Subnetting made easy on TechRepublic

Posted: 25th October 2009 by Mats Hellman in Networking, Windows
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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 [...]