gimeti » Networking

How to remotely uninstall software?

Gimeti — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:51:27 +0000

There’s a lot of times when you just want to uninstall a piece of software without interrupting the end user, but unfortunately there isn’t an easy, out of the box way to do it. To uninstall software on a local …

Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 transition / migration to Server Standard 2008 R2

Gimeti — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:47:28 +0000

(First appeared here) This is an action plan from Microsoft tech support. I’m going to be testing this in my Lab over the next week or so. I’ll post any significant notes or corrections that I find. 1. Run ADprep …

RackSpace Cloud Review

Gimeti — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:39:10 +0000

About 4 months ago I tried Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu image and found it somehow difficult to configure the server, especially if you are not familiar with cli. Making an ssh remote connection required downloading few encryption keys from amazon. …

Nice tool to recover/retrieve wep/wpa wireless keys

Gimeti — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:34:04 +0000

Nice and simple tool to recover wireless encryption keys. It is very helpful and quick when you have a machine already connected to the network but you cannot remember the key to add another one. The link is here http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html …

Will Windows 7 support 20 concurrent network connections?

Gimeti — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:47:59 +0000

It looks like Windows 7 will support up to 20 users connected to a share or network sessions. That is great news for small to medium size companies that use Windows XP to share files. That’s double of what Windows …

Auto connect and authenticate to a mapped drive on Windows XP

Gimeti — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:47:03 +0000

Lately Windows XP Pro and Home is loosing connectivity to the mapped drive or sometime the user has to double click on on Z drive to initiate the authentication process. In some cases the “remember password” check box is not …

XOHM modem port forwarding

Gimeti — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:41:06 +0000

I just got a new office in downtown Baltimore and I needed to get my own internet. I was debating between Verizon DSL or Comcast. I like comcast speed, but not the price. Since I use skype for my office …