If you think your computer may be infected, take all necessary steps to clear your system and avoid infecting other computers.
Step 1
Be cautious about what disks and files you accept from other people.
Step 2
Don't reuse disks that have been in other computers, don't download files from insecure sites, and don't open e-mail attachments unless you are expecting them. Be wary of messages and attachments, even from people you know, with vague subject lines and contents, such as 'Check this' or 'See these pics!!!'
Step 3
Obtain an antivirus program to more safely share disks, download files from the Internet and open e-mail attachments.
Step 4
If your system gets a virus, visit your virus-scan software manufacturer's Web site and install any virus updates that are available. Then run the software. The software may not be able to delete the virus, but it may be able to identify it.
Step 5
Search the Web for information regarding your specific virus by typing the name of the virus or its associated file into a search engine , followed by the word 'virus.' For example, 'Melissa virus,' 'BubbleBoy virus,' and so on.
Step 6
Download and install any software patches or other programs that will help you eliminate the virus. Or follow any instructions you find on deleting the virus manually.
Step 7
Run another virus scan to make sure the virus was dealt with properly.
Step 8
Employ extra caution when you receive attachments that end in the commonly used extensions .doc, .exe, .com, .xls or .ppt. Never open attachments that end in .vbs or .js, since a typical user would never have a reason to open these files.
Click on "Region and Language Options" and then click on the "formats" tab at the top left
Click the down arrow under "Current Format", and choose your desired language
Click OK and the close out of the control panel windows
You should now see a small "EN" appear in the bottom right corner of the system tray. While you are in a Word document, press "Alt + Shift" to switch between languages. (You can install more than one language at a time by repeating this process)
Right click on the Desktop.
Left click on
New > Shortcut.
In the Type the location of the item: textbox enter %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r
The -r parameter is used to restart the computer.
The following two parameters can be used with -r: -f Forces running applications to close without warning. -t xx Set timeout for restart to xx seconds.
The following command would reboot the computer instantly. %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00
If you're dying to try out Windows 7 but aren't ready to give up your installation of XP or Vista, let's take a look at how to dual boot Windows 7 with XP or Vista.
Step 0: Download the Windows 7 Beta and Burn It to a DVD
Assuming you've already downloaded a fresh copy of Windows 7, you'll need to burn it to a DVD in order to do a fresh installation. To handle this task, grab a copy of the most popular CD and DVD burning tool ImgBurn, burn the ISO to a DVD, and move right along to step 1.
Step 1: Partition Your Hard Drive
Before you go installing Windows 7, the first thing you need to do is create a new partition on your hard drive to hold the new installation of Windows. Partitioning your hard drive will vary depending on whether you're running XP or Vista—namely because Vista has a partition tool baked in, XP does not.
Partition Your Hard Drive in XP
To partition your hard drive in Windows XP, you'll need to download some sort of third-party partitioning software. There are a lot of options available, but I prefer to stick with the previously mentioned GParted live CD, a free, open source boot CD that can handle all kinds of partitioning duties.
To use it, just download the GParted Live CD, burn it to a CD, then reboot your computer (booting from the disc). You'll boot right into the partitioning tool. HowtoForge's previous guide to modifying partitions with GParted is a great place to start, but it's a fairly basic procedure:
Resize your current OS drive to free up enough space for a Windows 7 partition (the minimum system requirements ask for 16GB).
Create a new partition from the newly freed space.
Apply your changes.
Partition Your Hard Drive in Vista
The folks at Redmond were kind enough to include a disk partitioning tool in Vista if you know where to look. So go to Control Panel -> System and Maintainence (skip this one if you're in Classic view) -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Once you launch the Computer Management tool, click on Disk Management under the Storage heading in the sidebar. It's partitioning time.
Luckily we've already gone down this road before in step-by-step detail, complete with pictures, so check out our previous guide to creating a new partition in Vista. In a nutshell, you'll need to shrink your current OS partition to free up at least 16GB of disk space (per the Windows 7 minimum system requirements), then create a "New Simple Volume" from the free space.
Step 2: Install Windows 7
Now that you've done all the heavy lifting, it's time for the easy part: Installing Windows 7 on your new partition. So insert your Windows 7 disc and reboot your computer (you'll need to have enabled booting from your DVD drive in your system BIOS, but most PCs will have this enabled by default).
Once the DVD boots up it's a simple matter of following along with the fairly simple installation wizard. When you're choosing installation type, be sure to select Custom (advanced) and choose the partition you set up above. (Be careful here. Choosing the wrong partition could mean wiping your other Windows installation altogether, so make sure you pick the new partition you just created.)
After you select the partition, go grab yourself a drink and let the installer do its work. Windows will run through some installation bits, restart a few times in the process. Eventually you'll be prompted to set up your account, enter your license key, and set up Windows. Keep your eyes open for fun new Windows 7 features, like your new homegroup (and the accompanying password). When it's finished, you're up and rolling with your new Windows 7 installation.
Congratulations! You should now have a new entry for Windows 7 on your boot screen when you first start up your computer. You've now got all the tools necessary to dual-boot Windows 7 and XP or Vista—or even to triple-boot Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
This isn't the only way to set up a multi-boot system by any means, but it's how I pulled it off. If you've got a method of your own that you prefer, let's hear it in the comments.
This article describes installation of IIS using the Windows Vista Control Panel – Windows Features Wizard. New for Windows Vista the Windows Features Wizard:
Replaces the Windows XP Windows Components Wizard from Add/Remove Windows Components:
Allow you to install / uninstall Windows Vista Optional Features
Provides quick status on state of installed Windows Features
Note: You can use the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) to easily install IIS, and applications that run on IIS. The Web PI is a free, lightweight tool that lets you install IIS and related technologies such as ASP.NET, SQL Server Express, Visual Web Developer, other popular Web applications, and more. Because the Web PI installs the latest versions of available Web Platform offerings, with just a few simple clicks you can download and install any new tools or updates. To learn more about the Web PI, see Learn more and install the Web PI.
Windows Vista Editions Supported
This walkthrough is for the following editions of Windows Vista:
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Windows Vista Business Edition
Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
Make sure you have installed one of the supported editions of Windows Vista before proceeding.
User Account Control (UAC) Security
Make sure you have administrative privileges on the machine: by default, you do not have them if you are logged on as a user other than the built-in Administrator account, even if this user was added to the local Administrators group on the machine (this is a new security feature in Windows Server® 2008, called LUA, which is beyond the scope of this article). Make sure to either log-on as the built-in Administrator account, or explicitly invoke applications as the built-in Administrator, as needed, using the "runas" cmd-line tool. For example, to launch notepad.exe you could run this command: "runas /user:administrator notepad.exe". You will be prompted for the password of the Administrator account. It's useful to have a cmd-box shell that's already elevated, by running "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe". Every application you run from that cmd-box will be elevated as well, and you will not need to use the "runas" syntax from that cmd-box.
Note that the IIS 7.0 default install features are shown as selected
Figure 7: IIS 7.0 Feature Selections
Step 6: Explore IIS 7.0 Features Available
To continue expanding features within the list, double click the feature to see sub-features
For example Double Click on Web Management Tools to see tools installed by default
Figure 8: Feature Selection
Step 7: Select IIS 7.0 Features for Install
To install just the IIS 7.0 default features, click OK at this time. If you are installing IIS 7.0 for evaluation purposes, you may want to select additional features within Internet Information Services for installation.
Check the check boxes for all IIS features you want to install
After selecting IIS features, click OK to start installation
I will go through the steps to install Windows 7 as a guest OS in VirtualBox. Previously, I wrote about how to install Ubuntu in VirtualBox, so check that out if you’re a Linux person.
What I like about VirtualBox is that they already support Windows 7! You have to download the latest version of the software to see the option, 2.2.2, but it’s there!
Here are the steps to install Windows 7 in VirtualBox:
Step 1: First, click on New to start the new virtual machine wizard and click Next.
Step 2: Type in a name for the OS and choose Microsoft Windows and Windows 7 for the Version. Click Next.
Step 9: When you click the icon, you will be brought to the Virtual Media Manager window where you will need to click Add and browse to the location of the Windows 7 ISO file. Then select it and click the Select button.
Step 10: Click Next and then click Finish. Now the ISO image will be mounted and you can begin the installation of Windows 7!
Enjoy Windows 7! I’ll also write another post on how to install Guest Additions on Windows 7 in VirtualBox!
This procedure demonstrates how to install Windows XP Professional. The procedure to install Windows XP home edition is very similar to the professional edition. Since Windows XP Pro is more advanced operating system, it will be used to demonstrate the installation procedure.
The best way install Windows XP is to do a clean install. It is not difficult to perform a clean installation. Before you perform the installation I recommend that you check Windows XP Compatibility List to ensure that your hardware is supported by XP. If your hardware is not on the compatibility list you can check your hardware manufactures website to download the drivers for Windows XP. Save all the necessary drivers onto floppy disks or CD before you start the installation.
All versions of Windows XP CD are bootable. In order to boot from CD/DVD-ROM you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD/DVD-ROM. You can then perform the following steps to install Windows XP:
Step 1 - Start your PC and place your Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD-ROM drive. Your PC should automatically detect the CD and you will get a message saying "Press any key to boot from CD". Soon as computer starts booting from the CD your will get the following screen:
Step 2 - At this stage it will ask you to press F6 if you want to install a third party Raid or SCSI driver. If you are using a an IDE Hard Drive then you do not need to press F6. If you are using a SCSI or SATA Hard drive then you must press F6 otherwise Windows will not detect your Hard Drive during the installation. Please make sure you have the Raid drivers on a floppy disk. Normally the drivers are supplied on a CD which you can copy to a floppy disk ready to be installed. If you are not sure how to do this then please read your motherboard manuals for more information.
Step 3 - Press S to Specify that you want to install additional device.
Step 4 - You will be asked to insert the floppy disk with the Raid or SCSI drivers. Press enter after you have inserted the disk.
Step 5 - You will see a list of Raid drivers for your HDD. Select the correct driver for your device and press enter.
Step 6 - You will then get a Windows XP Professional Setup screen. You have the option to do a new Windows install, Repair previous install or quit. Since we are doing a new install we just press Enter to continue.
Step 7 - You will be presented with the End User Licensing Agreement. Press F8 to accept and continue
Step 8 - This step is very important. Here we will create the partition where Windows will be installed. If you have a brand new unformatted drive you will get a screen similar to below. In our case the drive size is 8190MB. We can choose to install Windows in this drive without creating a partition, hence use the entire size of the drive. If you wish to do this you can just press enter and Windows will automatically partition and format the drive as one large drive.
However for this demonstration I will create two partition. The first partition will be 6000MB (C: drive) and second partition would be 2180MB (E: drive). By creating two partition we can have one which stores Windows and Applications and the other which stores our data. So in the future if anything goes wrong with our Windows install such as virus or spyware we can re-install Windows on C: drive and our data on E: drive will not be touched. Please note you can choose whatever size partition your like. For example if you have 500GB hard drive you can have two partition of 250GB each.
Press C to create a partition.
Step 8 - Windows will show the total size of the hard drive and ask you how much you want to allocate for the partition you are about to create. I will choose 6000MB. You will then get the screen below. Notice it shows C: Partition 1 followed by the size 6000 MB. This indicates the partition has been created. We still have an unpartitioned space of 2189MB. Next heighlight the unpartitioned space by pressing down the arrow key. Then press C to create another partition. You will see the total space available for the new partition. Just choose all the space left over, in our case 2180MB.
Step 9 - Now you will see both partition listed. Partition 1 (C: Drive) 6000MB and Partition 2 (E: Drive) 2180MB. You will also have 8MB of unpartitioned space. Don't worry about that. Just leave it how its is. Windows normally has some unpartitioned space. You might wonder what happened to D: drive. Windows has automatically allocated D: drive to CD/DVD-ROM.
Select Partition 1 (C: Drive) and press Enter.
Step 10 - Choose format the partition using NTFS file system.This is the recommended file system. If the hard drive has been formatted before then you can choose quick NTFS format. We chose NTFS because it offers many security features, supports larger drive size, and bigger size files.
Windows will now start formatting drive C: and start copying setup files as shown on the two images below :
Step 11 - After the setup has completed copying the files the computer will restart. Leave the XP CD in the drive but this time DO NOT press any key when the message "Press any key to boot from CD" is displayed. In few seconds setup will continue. Windows XP Setup wizard will guide you through the setup process of gathering information about your computer.
Step 12 - Choose your region and language.
Step 13 - Type in your name and organization.
Step 14. Enter your product key.
Step 15 - Name the computer, and enter an Administrator password. Don't forget to write down your Administrator password.
Step 16 - Enter the correct date, time and choose your time zone.
Step 17 - For the network setting choose typical and press next.
Step 18 - Choose workgroup or domain name. If you are not a member of a domain then leave the default settings and press next. Windows will restart again and adjust the display.
Step 19 - Finally Windows will start and present you with a Welcome screen. Click next to continue.
Step 20 - Choose 'help protect my PC by turning on automatic updates now' and press next.
Step 21 - Will this computer connect to the internet directly, or through a network? If you are connected to a router or LAN then choose: 'Yes, this computer will connect through a local area network or home network'. If you have dial up modem choose: 'No, this computer will connect directly to the internet'. Then click Next.
Step 22 - Ready to activate Windows? Choose yes if you wish to active Windows over the internet now. Choose no if you want to activate Windows at a later stage.
Step 23 - Add users that will sign on to this computer and click next.
Step 24 - You will get a Thank you screen to confirm setup is complete. Click finish.
Step 25. Log in, to your PC for the first time.
Step 26 - You now need to check the device manager to confirm that all the drivers has been loaded or if there are any conflicts. From the start menu select Start -> Settings -> Control Panel. Click on the System icon and then from the System Properties window select the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager.
If there are any yellow exclamation mark "!" next to any of the listed device, it means that no drivers or incorrect drivers has been loaded for that device. In our case we have a Video Controller (VGA card) which has no drivers installed.
Your hardware should come with manufacturer supplied drivers. You need to install these drivers using the automatic setup program provided by the manufacturer or you need to manually install these drivers. If you do not have the drivers, check the manufacturers website to download them.
To install a driver manually use the following procedure:
From the device manager double click on the device containing the exclamation mark.
This would open a device properties window.
Click on the Driver tab.
Click Update Driver button. The Wizard for updating device driver pops up as shown below:
You now get two options. The first option provides an automatic search for the required driver. The second option allows you to specify the location of the driver. If you don't know the location of the driver choose the automatic search which would find the required driver from the manufacturer supplied CD or Floppy disk. Windows would install the required driver and may ask you to restart the system for the changes to take affect. Use this procedure to install drivers for all the devices that contain an exclamation mark. Windows is completely setup when there are no more exclamation marks in the device manager.
The question I am asked most often is "How do I install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?" The answer is that it's not that difficult, it's just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of Windows XP.
Note that you should not attempt this if you aren't ready to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.
The first issue we encounter is that computers with pre-installed operating systems take up the entire drive. Luckily Microsoft included the Shrink volume feature in Vista, so we can easily shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XP.
Open the Computer Management panel, which you can find under Administrative tools or by right-clicking the Computer item in the start menu and choosing Manage. Find the Disk Management item in the list and select that.
Now we'll shrink our volume down by right-clicking on the main hard drive and choosing Shrink Volume.
Now you can choose the size that you want to shrink, which really means you are choosing the size that you want your XP partition to be. Whatever you do, don't just use the default. I chose roughly 10gb by entering 10000 into the amount.
The next step might be confusing, because we need to change the cd-rom drive that's invariably taking up D: at the moment, because we want to use D: for the Windows XP partition, but it's already taken by the cd-rom drive. If you skip this step than XP will install onto the E: drive, which isn't the end of the world, but it's not quite as tidy.
Right-click on the cd-rom drive in the list and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.
Now we'll change the CD drive to use E: by selecting that in the drop-down.
Now we can create a new partition for XP to live on and make sure that the drive letter is set the way we want. If you do not create a partition now the XP install will do so automatically, but it's easier and cleaner to do it this way.
Right-click on the Unallocated free space area and then select New Simple Volume from the menu.
Follow through the wizard and select whatever options you'd like, making sure to use D: as the drive letter.
Now you will need to close out of disk management and reboot your computer. This is because we can't do the next step until we reboot. (you can try, but it won't work)
So we've come back from rebooting… open up Computer from the start menu and then right-click on the D: drive and select properties. Give your partition a meaningful name like "XP". It would be wise to name the C: drive to "Vista" at this point as well.
Now you'll want to pop your XP cd into the drive and boot off it. You may have to configure your BIOS to enable booting off the CD drive, or if your computer says something like "Hit Esc for boot menu" you might want to use that.
Once you come to the screen where you can choose the partition to install on, then choose either the unpartitioned space or the new partition you created. Whatever you do, don't try and install onto your Vista partition! See how much cleaner it is now that we've labeled each partition distinctly?
We'll assume XP is completely installed at this point, and you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista, so we'll need to use the VistaBootPro utility to restore the Vista boot loader.
Update: VistaBootPro is no longer free, but you can still download the free version.
During the install you'll be forced to install the .NET 2.0 framework. Open up VistaBootPRO and then click on the System Bootloader tab. Check the "Windows Vista Bootloader" and then "All Drives" radio buttons, and then click on the Install Bootloader button.
At this point, the Windows Vista bootloader is installed and you'll only be able to boot into Vista, but we'll fix that. Instead of manually doing the work, we'll just click the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu.
This will scan your computer and then automatically fill in the XP version.. click on the "Manage OS Entries" tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like "Windows XP" or "The Windows That Works"
Click the Apply Updates button and then reboot your computer… you should see your shiny new boot manager with both operating systems in the list!
If you get an error saying "unable to find ntldr" when trying to boot XP, you'll need to do the following:
Find the hidden files ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root of your Vista drive and copy them to the root of your XP drive.
If you can't find the files there, you can find them in the \i386\ folder on your XP install cd
There's more information on this forum thread, thanks to nrv1013
This is a critical piece of information: Windows XP will be installed on the D: drive, even in Windows XP… so you'll need to keep that in mind when tweaking your system.
You can share information between the drives, but I wouldn't recommend messing with the other operating system's partition too much… it might get angry and bite you. Or screw up your files. What I do recommend is that you store most of your files on a third drive shared between the operating systems… you could call that partition "Data".
I'm going to write a number of followup articles dealing with all of the issues with dual-boot systems, so subscribe to the feed for updates.
If you have issues with your dual-boot system, I'd recommend creating a new topic in our Vista forum, and we'll try and help you.
Before start install Microsoft Office 2003, write down the product key shown on the top of the CD on a piece of paper.
Insert the Microsoft Office 2003 Installation CD into your computer CD drive. After a few seconds, the Office 2003 setup screen will appear.
3. You will be first prompted for the Office 2003 Product Key. Type in the 25-digit product key correctly. When you are finished, click on the Next button.
4. The next screen of the installer will prompt you to enter the following User Information:
User name: Type your first and last name.
Initials: Type your initials.
Organization: Type your organization name, or else can leave it blank.
When you've entered all of this information, click on the Next button.
5. The next screen displays the End-User License Agreement. Click the checkbox by "I accept the terms in the License Agreement." Then click on the Next button.
6. The next screen displays the installation options for Office 2003. You have four options to choose: Typical, Complete, Minimal and Custom. Choose "Complete Install" and then click on the Next button.
7. The Summary screen will appear. Click the Install button. This will install Microsoft Office 2003 Professional to your computer; and it takes some time to complete.
8. During the installation process, a progress bar will be displayed showing that Microsoft Office 2003 is currently being installed on your computer. The time to complete the install will vary based on your computer's speed.
9. The installer will inform you when the setup is complete. You will have the option to check for Microsoft Office updates and delete your installation files.
10. Just click the Finish button to complete the installation.
11. You can choose to ‘Check the Web for updates and additional downloads’ and uncheck the ‘Delete installation files’ if you wish to update the Office 2003.
Note: Your computer needs the Internet connection in order to perform this.
12. The installer will close. Internet Explorer should open and take you to the Microsoft Office Update web site. Click on the Office Update link at the left hand panel of the site.
Note: If the web browser doesn't appear, open Internet Explorer and go to the Microsoft Office Update web site by clicking here.
13. Click the Continue button and follow the on-screen instructions to download and install necessary updates. Otherwise, close Internet Explorer.
In this post, I'll demonstrate with words and screen shots how to install and get working a portal using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Installing this product is not difficult, but it does require some forethought and planning. You can use this post as a reference for getting your version of MOSS 2007 installed.
You need to have downloaded the software from Microsoft's site. For information on how to do that, please go here. Once you have registered and downloaded the software, you're ready to start.
First, you'll need Windows 2003 Server, fully patched and ready to go. I believe I've seen blog postings recently that indicate that you can install MOSS07 on a Vista server. I'll leave that discussion for other threads and posts.
Once you have the operating system ready to go, you'll want to start by running the setup.exe for MOSS 2007. Figure 1 illustrates that after you start the installation process, you'll need to enter a valid product identification key code. This key code can be found on the download site and should have been a part of what you did to get the software in the first place.
After entering the product identification key code, click Continue. The next screen is the licensing agreement screen. Now, I always recommend that you read the licensing agreement since it is a legal document and you are bound by its' terms. But I also recognize that in the 10+ years I've been in this industry, I've never seen an agreement that I didn't agree with.............if you get my drift.
Be sure to select the "I accept the terms of this agreement" check box and then click Continue.
The next screen will give you the chance to select which type of installation you wish to commit. The Basic installation is used for those who:
Need to install everything on a single server
Do not need to grow into a multi-server farm
Need a quick, easy deployment during installation with lead administrative effort
The Advanced option is selected by those who wish to install MOSS 2007 selecting some of the customizable features. In this illustration, we'll select the Advanced option and follow that route.
After clicking on the Advanced button, you'll find that the selections default to StandAlone (Figure 4). However, we'll choose Complete. The meaning of the three options is as follows:
Complete: Enables all of the options for one server to offer the entire range of MOSS 2007 services and features to the network. You can scale out this deployment, start and stop services on this server and use a SQL server to host your databases.
Web Front End: Enables only those options that allows the server to run as a web front end server. What this means is that server is merely the entry and exit point (or one of them among the other WFE servers) for the farm. The actual servers that users will consume will be hosted on other servers (presumably). This cannot be the first choice of a farm unless you plan on installing other servers in the farm to offer the services and features that users will want to consume.
Stand-Alone: Similar to complete, this option enables all of the services and features for the MOSS 2007 farm, but assumes that there is no SQL server, so the MSDE engine is installed locally on this server. You cannot scale out this server into a larger MOSS 2007 farm.
Note that in reality, all of the MOSS 2007 binaries are installed in all three choices. All these choices really do is (pragmatically, not technically) turn on and off the code that is required for the server to fulfill the functions that have been assigned to it. Note also that you can select the location where the binaries should be installed in the File Location tab and then sign up to give feedback directly to Microsoft if you'd like to do this.
Make your selections, then click Install Now.
Figure 4: Server Type Selection Screen
During the installation, you'll be presented with a status bar that is illustrated in Figure
After installation has completed, you'll be given the chance to run through the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (Figure 6). You'll use this wizard to commit the initial configuration options for your new SharePoint farm.
Figure 6: Entry screen to the SPPT Configuration Wizard. Note that you can come back to this screen using the Administration menus that automatically install with the SharePoint Server binaries
One you start the SPPT wizard, you'll receive a pop-up box (Figure 7) that will inform you that certain services are going to be stopped. Be sure it is a good time to stop these services before moving on with the configuration options for your farm.
The following set of screens in the SPPT Configuration Wizard are design to help you setup the farm. In Figure 8, you'll be able to create a new farm or join and existing farm. Farm membership, at the server level, is determined by which servers are using the same configuration database in SQL and which servers are not. In my illustration, I want to create a new farm, so I select the "No, I want to create a new server farm" radio button. If I had wanted to connect to an existing farm, I would have selected the other radio button.
Figure 8: Connect to a server farm configuration screen in the SPPT Wizard
After making our selection in Figure 8 and then clicking Next, I'm taken to the next screen illustrated in Figure 9. On this screen, I can enter the following configuration values:
The SQL database server name. I'm not clear if this is the host name or netbios name, but I suspect this is the host name. However, you don't need the FQDN here, but you do need name resolution to this server or SQL Instance.
The farm configuration database name is needed in the next input box. Note that the screen just asks for a name, but you need to understand you're entering the most persistent database name for the entire farm - the farm configuration database name. Be sure this name supports your database naming convention. You should decide the name of this database in advance of getting to this screen
The database access account will need to be a member of the local admins group on each SharePoint server along with having db_creator and db_security permissions in SQL. I would suggest you have an account setup just for this purpose in your Active Directory and that you have a strong password associated with this account.
Figure 9: Configuration Database Settings Screen in the SPPT Wizard
in Figure 10, you'll be asked to decide which type of security settings you want to use for your farm. First, you can specify a pre-selected port number for central administration to run on or you can allow the wizard to randomly assign a port number. As you can see, this instance of the wizard randomly selected 17386 as the port number for Central Administration (CA). If you want CA to run on a different port, then select the check box and enter the desired port number.
The issue of NTLM vs. Kerberos is one that you may at some point wish to consider. Do you want the CA application to run using NTLM (NT Lan Manager) for security authentication or Kerberos? If the latter, there are some special configurations you'll need to complete for your Active Directory (AD) before Kerberos will work. I'm finding that most administrators are happy with NTLM, though those in a larger and more secure implementations are increasingly using Kerberos. For purposes of my illustration here, I'm selecting NTLM.
Figure 10: Configure SharePoint Web Application configuration screen in SPPT Wizard
After you click Next, you'll be given a status bar that indicates how the SharePoint configuration is going. Depending on the type of server you're installing and the options you're installing, you could have as few as seven tasks or as many as eleven. Figure 11 illustrates the progress screen. Note that the caption below the status bar will inform you about the configuration actions that are being executed during this process.
Figure 11: Configuration status bar screen in the SPPT Wizard
After the configurations have been executed and committed to the SQL Server database, we finally get to CA where we can further configure our farm. We can start and stop services (Figure 12) on this server and then create web applications. In order to have portal, you'll first need to start the Office SharePoint Server Search service and then create a Shared Services Provider (SSP). I'll start the search service.
Figure 12: Services configuration screen in CA
When the search service is started, you're presented with another web page for search configuration administration that needs to be completed before the search service can start. The configuration options are pretty clear. Out of the shoot, you'll use this server for both indexing and servicing queries from users until you can get enough servers in your farm to quarantine those options in your farm. Select a location that has enough disk space for your indexes. You should plan on a space allotment of 20% relative to the amount of information you wish to index. You'll also need to input an email address, a service account and whether or not there is a dedicated WFE for all crawling activities. For now, in my illustration, since this is the first server in the farm, I'll accept the defaults and click OK.
Figure 13: Search configuration screen
After starting the search service, the next thing I need to do is create a SSP. In order to do this, I'll navigate to the Application tab in CA, click Create or Extend a WebApplication, then click Create a New Web Application, then make the configurations necessary that you see in Figure 14. Most of this is pretty self-explanatory, so I won't go through each input in detail. Suffice to say that I've done two things not illustrated here. First, after creating this web application, I then web back into CA, selected the Create or Configure Core Farm Services, then selected New SSP (Figure 15) and then filled in the configuration information for the new SSP. All of the options on that page are self-explanatory, except that you must select an Index server for the SSP to operate.
Backtracking just a bit, you can't have an Index server unless the Search services is started. So, that's why I illustrated starting the search services first, then creating an SSP, then creating a portal.
Figure 14: Configuring the new web application to host the portal
Figure 15: Illustration of the SSP management interface where you can select to create a New SSP.
Once the SSP is created and the web application for the portal has been created, you can then create the portal. The way to do this is to navigate to CA and then click Create Site Collection. Be sure the http://portal is selected in the drop down list in the upper right-hand portion of the screen (Figure 16). Note that on this screen, you'll need to ensure that you are creating the site collection at the root by selecting the "Create Site at this URL" where the URL path is "root", not in the Sites managed path. Also, if you scroll down, you'll need to select the Corporate Intranet Site under the Publishing tab. Microsoft has renamed the Portal to Corporate Intranet Site and placed it under the Publishing tab for web content publishing purposes. BTW, even though I don't illustrate it here, be sure to give the site a title.
7. You will got another massage says “ the requested files already copied to your computer, if you want to copy it again you need the Windows XP CD ROM. Do you want to copy it again?
Press NO
Setup program will start. You will be prompted to restart the computer”.
Select restart
8. Repeat the previous steps (from 1-4) until you reach the screen number (4) and press on advance
9. Go for “select to match the language version of the non Unicode programs you need to use”
Screen 6
10. Press the down arrow and select Arabic (it will not make a difference what Arabic country you choose. Any country should work) and press ok
11. You will be prompted again to restart the computer. Select restart
Repeat the previous steps (from 1-4) until you reach the screen number (4) and press on Details the following screen appears
Screen 7
12. Press on add and select “Arabic key board language”.
- Press ok
Enjoy your great mother language
Note: You may need the original XP CD if one or more of the program files is not available on your computer you will be prompted with the missing file name.
Microsoft Windows 2000
In order to load the Arabic support for MS Windows 2000. Follow the following procedures
Click [Start]
Click [Control Panel]
From Control Panel, select regional and Language settings
From the [General] Tab. Go to [Language settings for the system] check the box next to Arabic,
With the numerous features available in Excel, you can use it widely. Some of them are:
Creating invoice, purchase order, DO, etc
Presenting data in different types of chart formats!
Get the latest prices for stocks, percentage change in stock value, etc.
Calculate a loan due date or how many days you have been alive?
And lots more…
What is so different when you use the spreadsheet to create the material above?
Those materials can have a 'build-in calculator' that will automatically calculate the figure based on the pre-set formula with 100% accuracy. This is the biggest advantage of computer spreadsheet compare with manual when dealing with figures.
Thanks to the powerful Excel feature – Formulas and Functions! …and you can learn it in the online Excel tutorials help below.
If you have used the correct functions and formulas within the spreadsheet, the computer automatically re-calculate the end values.
Just Few Clicks to Create Chart / Graph for YOU!!
It’s important to represent your data in chart format instead of all figures. What are the advantages of using chart or graph?
One picture worth a thousand words
Easy to make comparison, see the differences
With Excel, you can create different types of graph easily from the data in the spreadsheet. To tell the truth, you can transfer the intended data to produce the graph/chart with just few mouse clicks.
Still not convince, then I can show you exactly in the Excel tutorials help below!
From the graph produced, you can change the chart text color, size, position,etc so it can really achieve the objective to make the comparison.
How to Edit, Sort and Filter Data?
This feature is extremely important when deal with lots of data…maybe few hundreds or even thousand records. You need to create a database to store all the data. For example, you wish to record all the books that have been purchased. You may record the book title, quantity, date purchased, price, supplier, etc.
With so many records, you still can easily add, delete, edit, filter and sort the data according to your needs. For example, in a sales company database, you can find the top 10 salesman at ease.
Of course this is just some of the features of Excel. To learn more about Microsoft Excel, see the Excel tutorials below.
