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How can I change the Telnet banner seen when connecting to my Windows Server 2003 server via Telnet? MS KB article 245095 has more: When you use Telnet to connect to the a Windows 2000/2003-based server the following banner is displayed: ​*========================================================== Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Server. *========================================================== C:’Documents and Settings’Administrator> You can change your…

How can I change the SMTP banner seen when connecting to my Exchange server via Telnet? MS KB articles 281224 and 836564 have more: When you use Telnet to connect to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service of a Windows 2000/2003-based server (regardless of whether it is running Exchange 2000/2003), the following banner is…

How can I change the POP3 banner seen when connecting to my Exchange server? MS KB article 303513 has more: When you connect to an Exchange 2000/2003 server with the Post Office Protocol (POP) you receive a banner that is similar to the following: ​Microsoft Exchange 2003 POP3 server version 6.0.4417.0 (your_server_name) ready. Note: The…

How can I change the IMAP4 banner seen when connecting to my Exchange server? MS KB article 303513 has more: When you connect to an Exchange 2000/2003 server with the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) you receive a banner that is similar to the following: ​* OK Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.5.6944.0…

To change the Binding Order in Windows XP: Start / Settings / Control Panel. Click Network and Internet Connections. Click Network Connections.   On the Advanced menu, press Advanced Settings.   Select the adapter whose Binding Order you wish to change in the Connections box. Use the arrows on the right side of the Binding…

How do I change the Binding Order in Windows 2000? To change the Binding Order in Windows 2000: Start / Settings / Control Panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections. On the Advanced menu, press Advanced Settings. Select the adapter whose Binding Order you wish to change in the Connections box. Use the arrows on the…

How do I change the Terminal Server (or RDP) listening port? By default, Terminal Server (For Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003) and Remote Desktop Protocol (for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) listens on TCP port 3389. To change the default port for all new connections created on the Terminal Server: Run Regedit and…

For the most part, this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed. The only time that you may want to do this is when the drive letters get changed without any user intervention. This may happen when you break a mirror volume or there is a…

How can I change the store limits in Exchange 2003 SP2? By default, the size limit of each database on a server running Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition is 16 GB (this limit is also enforced in SBS 2000/2003). Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is supposed to remove this limit…

Network administrators have had countless times that they need to change the registered user and company name for a Windows installation. Unfortunately, this process is rather difficult and needs to be done through the registry. Fortunately, by following the steps below you will be able to edit the registered user and company name for either…