How to Create a Vacation Away Message for (Almost) Any Email Account
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If you are heading out of town, you might want to put a note on your email to let people know where to contact you. Or just to let them…
Understanding Routers, Switches, and Network Hardware
Today we’re taking a look at the home networking hardware: what the individual pieces do, when you need them, and how best to deploy them. Read on to get a…
Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP
f you have a home network and are running Windows 7 and have XP on other PC(s) you might want to share files between them. Today we will look at…
How to Use Offline Files in Windows to Cache Your Networked Files Offline
The problem with storing all your files on a file server or networked machine is that when you leave the network, how are you going to access your files? Instead…
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Intro
Let’s imagine you’re a system administrator at a large company. You are implementing a new network of several hundred computers. All is fine and well until you realize: you have…
Create or Delete A Service in Windows XP
Services are added from the Command Prompt. You need to know the actual service name as opposed to what Microsoft calls the Display Name. For example, if you wanted to…
10 drawbacks to working in IT
By Brien Posey November 22, 2011, 1:21 PM PST Takeaway: People who are trying to break into IT don’t always know what they’re getting into. This list paints a realistic…
How to Subnet a Network
A properly designed subnet can do wonders for the security and performance of a network. The main idea in subnetting is to divide a network into smaller pieces, which we…
How to create a WindowsXP VPN Connection to a Server
WindowsXP VPN Client The following page details the steps necessary to create a WindowsXP VPN Connection to a Server 1. Go to Start / Settings / Network Connections 2. Start…
How to create a WindowsXP VPN Server
WindowsXP VPN Server The following page details the steps necessary to create a WindowsXP VPN Server 1. Go to Start / Settings / Network Connections 2. Start the New Connection…