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Dell open manage storage administrator, where is it?

I’ve installed 3-4 identical PowerEdge 2050′s this past week. Everyone installs server administrator, that is a must. I noticed on one of the servers that when I logged in, the storage administrator was missing. What’s the big idea? After speaking to the Dell tech, they said that it’s a horrible install and then sometimes it [...]

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Apache web server on windows, how to password protect directory

Running Windows 2003 with Apache 2.2, how do I password protect a web directory? First, open up your httpd.conf file located in your apache\conf directory. In the directory sections, add the following <Directory “c:/htdocs/foldername-to-secure”>  AllowOverride All  Options none  Order deny,allow </Directory> To create the password file, goto a dos prompt, and into the apache’s bin [...]

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Prevent Adobe Acrobat from prompting Microsoft Word with macro security.

When you install Adobe Acrobat, every time you launch Microsoft word it will ask you to enable the macros. What is this? Basically it’s a  3 button toolbar for Word giving PDF functionality. Do you need it? No, because you can do file print, and then print to the PDF printer. So how do you [...]

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