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How to enable telnet on Windows 7

The telnet command is disabled by default in Windows 7. But you can easily enable it using the following steps:

1. Open the Windows 7 Control Panel (Start > Control Panel)

Windows 7 Control Panel

Windows 7 Control Panel

2. Click on the “Programs” link.

Windows 7 Control Panel - Programs

Windows 7 Control Panel - Programs

3. Under the “Programs and Features” setting, click on “Turn Windows features on or off” link.

Windows 7 Control Panel - Turn Windows features on or off

Windows 7 Control Panel - Turn Windows features on or off

4. Tick the “Telnet Client” selection box. Wait for Windows 7 to install and enable the selected feature.

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5. Done! You should now be able to run the “telnet” command on the Windows 7 command prompt.

Windows 7 telnet command

Windows 7 telnet command

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How to solve MS Outlook Error: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.”

If you cannot open Microsoft Outlook 2007 and get the following error when opening Microsoft Outlook 2007: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” after previously being able to open it, then you might want to try the following:

Go to Start > Run and type the following: “outlook.exe /resetnavpane” (without the quotation marks) and press Enter.

This should fix the problem.

The “/resetnavpane” Outlook command switch clears and regenerates the MS Outlook navigation pane for the current profile.

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How to configure Windows Active Directory logon scripts

There are instances when you need to run a script or program every time a user logs into your Windows network. One way to automate this is to configure and assign a Windows logon script to a particular user or group account.

Enabling Windows logon scripts is a two-stage process. The first stage is to create the script itself, and the second stage is to assign the logon script to a domain user (or group) account.

I. Where to save the logon script:

  1. Create your logon script and save it in the appropriate format (Example: logon.bat, logon.vbs).
  2. Go to your domain controller and copy the script into the %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL\Sysvol\DomainName\Scripts local folder (Ex. C:\WINDOWS\sysvol\sysvol\ENTIIS.COM\SCRIPTS).

This folder corresponds to the domain controller’s NETLOGON network share folder.

This makes the script accessible over the network via the \\ServerName\Netlogon network share folder.

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To summarize:
If your domain controller’s name “DC01”, and if you have a script named “logon.bat”, which is saved on DC01’s “C:\WINDOWS\sysvol\sysvol\ENTIIS.COM\SCRIPTS” folder, then you can access the script over the network by going to the “\\DC01\netlogon“ network share folder, or by simply running \\DC01\netlogon\logon.bat.

II. How to assign a logon script to a user or group:

1. First, open “Active Directory Users and Computers” on the domain controller.

Active Directory Users and Computers

2. Now right click on the user you want to have the logon script and select the properties menu.

A properties dialog like the one shown below will appear. Select the ‘Profile’ Tab

By default, if no exact network path is given, as shown in Figure 3, above, Active Directory will assume that the user profile logon script will be at the %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL\Sysvol\DomainName\Scripts folder.

3. Click Apply.

4. Click OK.

Once configured, the logon script will run (on the local machine where the user logged in) every time the user logs into the network using the corresponding account.

Note: You have to check if the user account used to log into the local machine has the appropriate rights to run or execute programs.

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