Category | Vista

I work as a consultant and every time I visit a client site with my "workgroup" computer I go nuts trying to access their infrastructure from websites to domain names. This is especially annoying with respect to SharePoint because clients often do not have Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) configured for the fully qualified domain names. You can get around this problem by adding entries to your hosts file located in C:WindowsSystem32driversetc but that gets a little tiresome. Today I was finally fed up with swapping out hosts files and decided to apply some of my newly found DNS prowess...

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Problem You're running Vista 32 or 64 bit and you don't have remote administration tools such as terminal services manager, DNS manager etc. Explanation Adminpak.msi no longer ships in the c:\windows\system32\ directory for Windows 2008. Solution Install remote server administration tools (RSAT) from Microsoft. Step 1 - Download and install the proper version of the remote server administration tools. Vista 64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d647a60b-63fd-4ac5-9243-bd3c497d2bc5 Vista 32 Bit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9FF6E897-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960...

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