Windows Server

Disabling Recursive DNS in the Plesk Panel and No Panels

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To Disable Recursive DNS in the Parallels Plesk Panel Log in to the Parallels Plesk Panel as administrator. Click Tools & Settings. From the General Settings area, click DNS Template Settings. Click DNS Recursion.Select Localnets, and then click Ok. For Windows Servers: Log in to your  Server  through a Remote Desktop Connection. From the Start … Read more

Limit Windows Remote Desktop to IP’s

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Step 1: Open the Windows Firewall with Advanced Configuration Step 2: Locate the Remote Desktop rule that’s currently enabled and edit it. Step 3: In the Scope tab, change the allowed Remote IPs field to whatever you want. This is the source address that you wish to restrict.

PLesk and Windows HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable

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You get this error: Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. The application pools were failing to start as they were not able to login using the proper account. Here is the error: Application pool plesk(default)(2.0)(pool) has been disabled. Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) did not create a worker process to serve the … Read more

How to connect and disconnect a network drive in Windows

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Connect a drive from My Network Places Click Start, click My Network Places, click Entire Network, and then double-click Microsoft Windows Network. Double-click the domain that you want to open. Double-click the computer that has the shared resource you want to map. All the shared resources for that computer automatically appear in the window. Right-click … Read more

SQL Server Firewall Rule in Plesk on Windows server

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Enable the firewall within Plesk then add the needed rules to Windows Firewall (set the IP’s can connect on tcp/1433). Plesk does not have the ability to set the IP’s or IP range. Resources http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/configuring-ms-sql-server-for-remote-access http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/creating-an-inbound-custom-allow-rule-for-windows-firewall-windows-2008

Change Windows Server 2008 Password

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Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754651%28v=ws.10%29.aspx To change the Administrator password in Windows Server 2008 Log on to the computer using the Administrator account. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click User Accounts. In User Accounts, in Make changes to your user account, click Change your password. In Change your password, in Current Password, type your password. In … Read more

Windows Hyper V licensing

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Can I run a Windows 2008 R@ server and a VM? MS just updated their Usage rights and they are allowing 1 Physical OS + 1 VM with Standard R2. Here is the link to their official site for VM licensing. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/virtualization.aspx

Add User to Filezilla Server

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If you have a Windows server and FileZilla Server as your FTP server (the default for our Managed Windows servers), you can easily add additional FTP users as needed. Each user will be ‘jailed’ into their shared folder. Open FileZilla Server Interface (start menu or desktop icon), then click ‘OK’ on the ‘Connect to Server’ … Read more