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Do I need a firewall with the Alcatel ADSL modem? Can I disable it? No, actually you don’t need the firewall. After converting your SpeedTouch Home modem to the Pro version, a firewall (built-in in the modem) is activated by default. You can check this by using software like Zone Alarm to see if attacks…

How can I extract only specific Snap-ins from the Adminpak.msi? Installing the adminpak.msi will install all of the tools found in it without prompting you which tool to install. You can, however, run the installation from the Command Prompt or from the Run menu, and choose which tools to extract and install. For example: If…

Windows Vista has a Visual Basic script built-in that will allow you to extend the trial period of Windows Vista by 30 days. You can use this script a total of three times which will extend your trial period up to 120 days. This process is known as “rearming” and it utilizes the “slmgr.vbs” script…

Microsoft operating systems, starting from Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and now Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, have always had a built-in method of extending or expanding a partition that was configured on the computer’s physical hard disks. While shrinking partitions was not possible internally, and usually required usage of 3rd-Party tools,…

How can I export an IPSec Policy from one computer and import it to another computer? As written in previous articles (see related articles at bottom of page), Windows 2000/XP/2003 machines have a built-in IP security mechanism called IPSec (IP Security). IPSec is a protocol that’s designed to protect individual TCP/IP packets traveling across your…

  Active Directory snapshots in Windows Server 2008 allow an administrator to either manually, or programmatically, create snapshots of the Active Directory database at a given time. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in Directory Services Restore…

How can I tell if an SSL certificate has expired or not before I enter the secured site? Any website operator that wants to secure the site or some of it’s pages with SSL must obtain a valid certificate from a trusted third party CA. If you try to enter a secure website that uses…

Finally, the entire set of Exchange Server 2007 documentation has been made available. You can access it in 2 ways – online (you have to be connected to the Internet to view it; or offline. This documentation is of high importance for anyone who wished to better understand the new messaging system that was released…

Many features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange Server have been removed from Exchange 2007. Some of these features have replaced by other Microsoft products, other simply do not exist, and require you to keep an older version of Exchange 2000/2003 if you wish to continue using them. This article describes the components, features…

Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released on the 19th of October 2005. You can download SP2 for Exchange 2003 right here: Download Exchange 2003 SP2 (109mb) Required Patches Currently, if you’re running Exchange Server 2003 with SP2 there are no security-related patches that you should apply.