INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON WINDOWS 2008 SERVER CORE

To install VMware tools on server core, do as you usually do: In the vmware consol, in the menu under VM choose Guest –> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools After you’ve done that, probably nothing happens…

HOW TO DISABLE IPV6 AND IPV6 TUNNELS ON WINDOWS 2008 SERVER CORE AND VISTA

Start the “Registry Editor” by typing “regedit” in a elevated command prompt. Go to: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters Create a new DWORD key named: DisabledComponents and set it to FFFFFFFF (8 F:s). Close “Registry Editor” and reboot the server…

HOW TO CHANGE THE NAME ON A INTERFACE ON WINDOWS 2008 SERVER CORE

Sometimes you want to change the name on interfaces in server core to make them more understandable. This is how you do it: First, show the current name of all interfaces:

HOW TO SET THE IP ADDRESS ON WINDOWS 2008 SERVER CORE

Type the following in a console window: 1 netsh interface ipv4 show interface It should output something like this As you can see, our interface have ID 2 (column Idx).

HOW TO ADD A PPTP VPN CONNECTION IN XP

Ensure you are logged in with Administrator priviliges Open the Control Panel and click “Network and Internet Connection” Click “Create a connection to the network at your workplace” Click “Network Connections”