SSTP or PPTP VPN Client on Windows 8
By Osterberg
| May 27, 2013
| vpn, sstp
How to configure a VPN client on Windows 8 Start by navigating to “Network and Sharing Center”
Click “Set up a new connection or network”
Click “Connect to a workplace” Click “Create a new connection” Click “Use my Internet connection (VPN)” In “Internet address:” type the adress to your VPN router and in “Destionation name:” type a descriptive name for the connection.
Install Active Directory on Server Core 2008
To install Active Directory on Server Core 2008 you need to run dcpromo.exe in unattended mode.
First start notepad on the target Core server and paste the following: [DCINSTALL] InstallDNS=yes NewDomain=forest NewDomainDNSName=<The fully qualified Domain Name System (DNS) name> DomainNetBiosName=<By default, the first label of the fully qualified DNS name> SiteName=<Default-First-Site-Name> ReplicaOrNewDomain=domain ForestLevel=3 DomainLevel=3 DatabasePath="%systemroot%\NTDS" LogPath="%systemroot%\NTDS" RebootOnCompletion=yes SYSVOLPath="%systemroot%\SYSVOL" SafeModeAdminPassword=P@ssw0rd This is example is for a new forest installation with Forest and Domain level set to 2008.
Change Screen Resolution in Server Core 2008
Ever wondered how to change screen resolution in Server Core?
I’ve found a blogpost about that here Change resolution on server coreAnd just to simplify it:
Locate
\HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video{classID}\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution
and
\HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video{classID}\0000\DefaultSettings.YResolution where you have a key named “VolatileSettings” directly under the *\0000* key.
Set the values to desired screen resolution.
In the case above it’s set to 1024x768. Restart the server for the changes to take affect.
Enable Remote Desktop on Windows 2008 Server Core
For Windows 2008 , Server Core & Vista clients type:
Cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0 For Windows XP & Windows 2003 clients type:
cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0 cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /cs 0 KB555964 at Microsoft
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…
In the command prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive.
Type dir and you should see the VMware tools install files.
Type setup.exe to start the installation. Continue as usually and restart the guest when done.
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? Type shutdown /r /f /t 1 /c “removed ipv6”)
This should disable all ipv6 and ipv6 tunnels.
More info at Microsoft
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:
netsh interface show interface Then:
netsh interface set interface name=currentname newname=newname Remember: If your interface name contains spaces you have to use quotes (“), so in most default cases where the current name of the interface is Local Area Connection, you have to add quotes when using the command.
How to Set the IP Address on Windows 2008 Server Core
Type the following in a console window:
netsh interface ipv4 show interface It should output something like this
As you can see, our interface have ID 2 (column Idx).
Then to set the ip address type the following (replacing the address, netmask and gateway with your own values):
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”2” source=static address=192.168.0.10 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 Next it’s time to set up addresses to DNS servers, type:
netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”2” address=192.
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”
Then click “Create a new connection” in the upper left corner.
Click next
Choose “Connect to the network at my workplace”
Choose to connect to “Virtual Private Network connection”