How To Create network Patch cable (straight-through and crossover)

Network cables are available is standard sizes in the market. what if you need a cable with your desired length. Let me explain here how to create your own network patch cable either straight-through or crossover.

Whats you need to have:

• Network cable Cat5 or Cat6
• RJ-45 Crimping tool
• RJ-45 Connectors
• Wire cutter
• Cable tester

Fist of all you need to do is to cut the cable of your desired length. Remove the outer skin of cable about 1 inch from both sides to expose the inner wires so you can work. There you will have 4 pairs of wires.

Figure A:

 

Straight-through Cable:

After you peel the outer skin off, separate the individual wires. You have to cute away the insulation between the inner wires. Once you have the wires separated, you have to make sure those wires are as straight as possible.

Figure B:

 

You have to grab the RJ-45 connector in the same way as in the figure B and use the following combination to make a straight-through cable in Figure C. 

Insert the cables into the RJ-45 connector and punch with the crimping tool. You have to make both side of the cable with the same combination of wires for straight-through cable.

Crossover Cable:

User the following combination of wires to create a crossover cable. Create one end of the cable same as in figure C and other end with the help of figure D.

Figure D:

 

Testing the connection: 

You can check the cable always to plug it in but the better way is to check the cable with cable tester. This is always a must if you are creating a number of cables or you are creating cables that will then be deployed to a remote location.

Good Luck,

ECS (Extended Communication Server) Premium VMware appliance Setup

This is step by step Guide for installing the ECS (Extended Communication Server) Premium software in VMware environment which can be useful for testing, learning and support purposes.

I am using VMware 7.0 Workstation to build this appliance. You can try it with other versions of VMware.

• Open VMware Workstation Click File >> New >> Virtual Machine and chose custom (advanced) option and click Next. 

 

• Select virtual machine hardware compatibility and click Next.

•  Select Install from Installer Disc and click Next.

 

• Select Guest Operating system Other and Version Other and click Next.

 

• Name the Virtual Machine and chose the location.

 

• Chose number of processors and number of core per processor and click Next.

 

• Set the memory of virtual machine to 1GB and click Next.

 

• Select Network Type (Use bridged Networking) and click Next.

 

• Select I/O adapter type as recommended and click Next.

•  Select Disk Create a new virtual disk and click Next.

 

• Select the disk Type as recommended and click Next.

•  Specify disk capacity to 120GB and chose store virtual disk as a single file and click Next.

 

• Specify disk file and click Next.

•  Un-check Power on this machine after creation and click Finish.

 

•  On VMware Workstation click VM >> Settings and on Hardware tab click Hard disk and click Add Button to add a 2nd hard disk.

 

 

 

 

 

Click finish. And now start you VM with ECS premium CD in CD ROM.

 

Press enter to continue. Setup will create required partitions and copy the ECS files.

 

  

Remove the installation disc and restart the VM. 

 Log-in to ECS from VM or https from any other Machine on network with default ECS IP address i.e 192.168.92.1 in a browser. 

Log-in using default Username and Password for ECS Premium. Here you go :) your ECS is working.

Now Apply Licenses to have full functional ECS. Then You will have more options on the main page. see following figure.

Configure you ECS for your testing training or for support.

Good Luck . 

Installing IIS Internet Information server on Windows server 2008

To install IIS you can use Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) to easily install Internet Information Services (IIS) and applications that run on IIS. IIS 7.0 is a Web server role in Windows server 2008 and Vista. IIS 7.5 is a web server role in windows server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

You can install IIS through the new server manager interface. Server manager gives you the option to install different roles and give the overview of installed roles.

To install from GUI after the operating system is installed please go through following steps.

• Click on Start > Administrative Tools > Server Manager

• Scroll down to Role Summary and click Add Roles. The wizard will start to add new roles. Click next to proceed.

• Check the box next to Web Server (IIS)

This will ask you for required components if missing for IIS to install. Click on Add Required Features and then click Next.

• Next screen will give you a little introduction of IIS. Just click next and here you can select the rolse services to install for IIS. In my case I am going to select here ASP.NET and click Next.

• To install the selected roles click Install. 

Next screen will show you the installation progress.

• Confirm the web server (IIS) is working using http://localhost

 Now your new Web server IIS 7.0 is installed and running.

Good Luck

How to enable Remote Desktop Connection on Windows server 2008

To enable Remote Desktop on windows server 2008, You need to go through following steps.

• Click on start menu and right click Computer and click on Properties.

• Click on Remote settings.

• Click on the Option Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop.

Try to remote desktop the system from another system on the network.

Good Luck. :) 

How to add Infolinks Related Tag Code in Blogger

Related tag is a new feature added by Infolinks. Related tag feature can increase your earnings and clicks while adding valuable informational within your website contents.

The Infolink will chose the best key words for the page and display them as tags within the related Tag cloud.

To add Infolinks related tag code in your blogspot blogs you need to do the following.

Log-in to your blogger account. on your dashboard click design button.

Now Click on Edit HTML tab.

Before changing any code please backup your code.
Check the check-box (Expand widget templates)

 
Copy the Code : <input type="hidden" name="IL_RELATED_TAGS" value="1"/>
   
Simply add the tag to the page code where you want the related tags cloud to appear.  Like If you want to add the related tag rite under your website heading as in my case place the code under the </header>.

And with in a minute related tag cloud will appear on your website.

Example of my page:

The tag requires the Infolinks script to be integrated in the page; the script will identify the tag in the code and insert the related tags.

Good Luck