Setup Google Apps

Last Updated on Monday, 15 August 2011 07:27 Written by A.Jesin Tuesday, 28 June 2011 01:39

Google Apps is a service provided by Google using which you can create an email account with your own domain name. The advantage is the email service is powered by GMail which gives you features like 8GB inbox and the ability to chat with other GMail fellow mates. Whats more all other services provided by Google are also available for your domain. Take Google Docs for example, using Gogole Apps you can share documents within the users of your domain. On the free version of Google Apps you can create upto 50 users. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to setup Google Apps for your domain. For setting up Windows Live Domains see that article. Read More…

CSS Tableless Design Tutorial

Last Updated on Monday, 15 August 2011 07:36 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 25 June 2011 06:45

This tutorial teaches you how to create your website neatly sans tables. All along people used tables to create column layouts and templates for their websites because they shied away from learning CSS and <div>s. If you thought creating web pages with divs are difficult you are about to change your mind after reading this tutorial, because HTML tables have many problems which can be overcome using divs. Take an example of changing the size of a column while using <table> tag, expanding a column also expands the column next to it. Of course you can use colspan and rowspan attributes to correct this to an extent but that makes it cumbersome and eats up precious bytes. With tableless design in CSS you can overcome all these problems and have complete control over your design, whats more search engines also start liking your website. Read More…

Active Directory User Creation Script

Last Updated on Monday, 20 June 2011 01:06 Written by A.Jesin Monday, 20 June 2011 01:06

Bulk User creation in Active Directory is made easy with the VBScript given here. Thousands of users can be created at the click of a button. Lets go step by step creating this script. Open notepad and save it by typing “create-users.vbs” INCLUDING the double quotes. This will create a file with a .vbs extension instead of .txt. Then type the following code.

set objCON = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Users, DC=example, DC=net")
Set objUser = objCON.Create("user","CN=User1")
objUser.Put "sAMAccountName", "user1"
objUser.SetInfo()

This will create an user with name “User 1″ and login name “user1″ in the active directory domain example.net in the Users container. By default the user account will be disabled to create account and enable them using the script itself add the following code to the end of the code above Read More…

Configure BIND DNS Split View

Last Updated on Monday, 13 June 2011 11:09 Written by A.Jesin Monday, 13 June 2011 11:09

Configure BIND DNS Views and Split to respond to different DNS clients with different answers based on their IP address. If you have many computers connected via LAN among which one is a web server, within the local network you may want domain names to resolve to private IP addresses and from the internet it should resolve to the public IP address. This can be done with BIND’s split-horizon feature. Based on a list of IP addresses of clients the DNS server replies with the appropriate answer. Take note that if you decide to configure split view all zones should come under a view. Read More…

Mount an ISO file in Linux

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:03 Written by A.Jesin Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:03

This tutorial shows how to mount an ISO file in Linux. In Windows third party tools are required to mount ISO images, but in Linux a simple command is enough to mount ISO images. Before editing the /etc/fstab file please take a backup by following the given instructions. To mount an ISO image use the following command

mount -o loop /location/of/file.iso /mnt/file

Replace /location/of/file.iso with the actual location. The “file” directory inside /mnt must exist. This will mount the iso file for that session. If you want to permanently mount the ISO file modify the /etc/fstab file. Before doing this please backup the fstab file.

cp /etc/fstab{,.bak}

Now edit the /etc/fstab file and add the following line

/location/of/file.iso /mnt/file iso9660 loop 0 0

Save the file and execute the following command to remount all enteries in /etc/fstab

mount -a

This way you can mount as many ISO images you want.

Configure roaming user profiles in Windows Server 2008

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 June 2011 11:01 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 4 June 2011 11:01

Read this tutorial to configure roaming profiles for user accounts in Windows Server 2008 in an Active Directory environment. Roaming profiles have the advantage of users have their personal settings and files available on all computers they login to. But the only problem is increased network activity during logon and logoff. Roaming profiles work by copying the user’s profile to the client computer on which the user logs on and when the user logs off the files are copied back to the server. Folder permissions and policies have to be configured properly to ensure the privacy of user files are maintained, while the administrator is able to have access to the user profiles. Read More…