Monday, October 11, 2010

Enable telnet in Windows 7

Needed a telnet session from my windows7 a couple of times in the past 6 months. Up until today i gave up downloading a third part application for that purpose, and turned on a VPC image with an XP os.

Then by coincident i needed a windows feature and found that both telnet client and server i just disabled in windows7 by default. Propably due to the security issues attached to telnet (always ssh whenever you can). But i need telnet from time to time.

Here is how you do:

  1. Go to control panel
  2. Go to "Turn windows features on or off"
  3. Go to "Telnet client" and set the checkmark in the box
That's it.


Sunday, October 10, 2010

User can't log in to outlook for some users

Experienced that outlook failed to log on to the exchange server for 2 users on a terminal server (2008 server).
All other users were working perfect.
Tried to change the chemney settings of the exchange server's nic settings by running this command: Netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED 
Found at this link . No success.

Resolution was to move the users profile folder, in this case c:\users\FOLDER, to a temporary location in order to preserve any user files and settings. Delete the 2 profiles that did not work, and let the users log on to the terminal server via RDP.
After the new profile was created, Outlook logged perfectly on to the exchange server again.

Still don't know what caused the error.