Remote Desktop Connections Manager

Today I will discuss a tool named Remote Desktop Connections Manager which is very useful tool for Admins in daily use. As we need to use our Server remotely via MSTSC utility which is good utility. But sometimes we need to connect remotely more than one Servers frequently and type again and again its IP Address, Username and Password. In this scenario I got a new tool Remote Desktop Connections Manager. It is very useful tool for our daily usage. You can download this tool from here Remote Desktop Connections Manager.

Installation of this tool is very easy "Next Next" click and done. After installation you will find following path C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Remote Desktop Connection Manager. Here you will find a .exe file "RDCMan" to run and open Interface showing below;

After launching the Interface you can see there a free space which will be used for Servers connections. On top you can see Menu for performing different actions.You can categorize by location or according to your own priority you set. I created groups like "Production" and "Test" Servers showing in figure below;

Now its time to add your Servers in these groups. Right click on "Production Server" and choose "Add Server" option you will see the following figure below where you have to add "IP Address" and "Display Name" also add comment whatever you want.

When you add different Servers in your required groups now you have all you set. It is easy to manage and control your Servers also save time.

Courtesy: http://techgenix.com/remote-desktop-connection-manager/#comment-367925

Authentication on IIS Web Site

Sometimes you need to apply authentication on IIS Web sites as you want only those users can connect to whom you have given access via user name and password. These users may be from domain or local users on local machine i.e IIS Web Server.

1) For this you need to open IIS Manager from Server Manager --> than Tools --> than Internet Information (IIS) Manager. After opening IIS you will see following window. I have done this Authentication with "Default Web Site", you can see in image below;

2) When you click on "Default Web Site" under "Sites" in left pane, you can see all relevant attributes in center pane related to "Default Web Site". We need to change in "Authentication" here, you can see figure below;

3) You need to double click on "Authentication" option and you will see further options in same pane showing below. Here you have to disable "Anonymous Authentication" and enable "Basic Authentication" for your required task to achieve.

4) Now go to browser and you open web site and press refresh button and you will see pop up window for "Username" and "Password" which you will provide and get access to the web site other you will not get into the web site. This "Username" and "Password" can be from your Active Directory or local machine.

How to reset your AD password from AD Self Service Plus

1In this post I will show you how to change your AD password from AD Self Service Plus software which I already installed on my AD Server. I will discuss its installation in my next post. AD Self Service Plus is freeware for 50 domain users. After its installation I have set A record in my domain with "PSSR" which means "Password Self Service Recover". Basically this software helps end user to reset his/her password without admin help. Here are the steps to follow;

1) Open the link http://pssr:8888 showing as below screen shot.

1)      Enter your AD login details in login and password field as shown below.

1)      First you must “Enrolment” yourself by clicking enrollment button on top. For enrollment purposes you will fill in answers of two Security questions and click on “Update” at bottom. After enrollment you will see the message on top that “You have already enrolled for security questions and answers” as shown in below figure.

  

 

1)      After successful enrollment you needs to sign out and click on “Reset Password” link at bottom showing in figure below.

1)      After clicking “Reset Password” button you will see the following page and must put your login in “Domain User Name” and make sure in Domain Name selected, now click “Continue” button. 

1)      After clicking “Continue” button you will see following page, now you need to answer of your already chosen “Security Questions” and one Captcha text than click on “Continue” button and you have reset your password successfully.