When you install AsteriskNOW 1.7.1, the default username/password for the FreePBX Admin console is set to admin/admin. After logging in for the first time it is a good idea to change it as this can be a security risk. It is recommended that your password contain a mix of lowercase and UPPERCASE letters, numbers, and/or symbols.
Enable the Built-in PDF Viewer in Google Chrome
The recent releases of Google Chrome (6 and up) uses a built-in PDF viewer to open PDFs. However, it's not enabled by default or may have been disabled. If so, Chrome will use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to display PDFs. Follow the suggestions below if you're having trouble viewing PDFs within Chrome, using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) to the console session
When you Remote Desktop to a Windows XP Professional computer, you always connect to the console (main/default) session as XP Pro is limited to one interactive session. However, When you remote desktop to Windows 2003 Server or higher, the default is to start a new session. As many seasoned Remote Desktop users are aware, you can run into a lot of problems installing software in a Terminal Services session that isn't the console session.
Open the Start Menu Folder in Windows 7
Are you wondering where the start menu folder is in Windows 7? Back in Windows XP, all you had to do was right-click on the start button to get to the folder, but Windows 7 changed it.
Automatic Login to Windows
There may be instances when users may have to auto-login to Windows without manually selecting their Windows user account. Using a password in Windows isn’t required, only suggested. But even if you don’t fill one in, you still have to click your user icon to start the login process. You can auto login to your Windows via the following steps:
Restore MySQL Database from ibdata and .frm Files
Here’s a simple way to restoring a MySQL database using only the /data folder from an original MySQL installation. Rather than risking damaging the existing server, the database must be restored on a development or test machine NOT the actual server.
Enable File and Printer Sharing using Group Policy
Group Policy is a one of the most useful tools found in the Windows 2000 and later Active Directory infrastructure. Group Policy can be used to set File and Printer Sharing on all computers joined to the domain. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. The following example uses Windows 2003 Server. The procedure for 2008 is almost exactly the same.
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