Download it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Chapter 1 What’s New in Windows Server R2 1 Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration:Adding R2 to Your World 9 Chapter 3 Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines 25 Chapter 4 Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management Chapter 5 Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access 65 …
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb Overview Using column filters, you can filter the information in these spreadsheets by operating system, component, or computer or user configuration. You can also search for information by using text or keywords. These spreadsheets include the following categories of security policy settings: Account Policies (Password Policy, Account Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy), Local Policies …
Security Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: 2008 Defense in Depth Security Series (Part 1 of 8): Why Does Security Matter? (Level 200) Original Air Date: January 7, 2008 In the first session of the series, we discuss risk and the impact of security on the business. We look at some popular methods to assess risk and identify the need …
Exchange Active Directory Support Matrix
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee338574.aspx
Creating Exchange 2007 Storage Groups and Mailbox Database’s using Powershell
Hello, You can use the Exchange Powershell Managment console to create storage groups and databases. To do this you would use the following commands: [PS] C:\Windows\System32>new-storagegroup "Second Storage Group" -server EXCHANGE This will result in the output below telling us that this has been successfully created. Name Server Replicated Recovery —- —— ———- ——– Second …
Free Exchange 2010 Training
Head over to here for 2 hours of completely free Exchange 2010 training! https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=249671 Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 Overview This two-hour collection provides an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. The clinics within this collection cover: New features in Exchange Server 2010 Management tools used in Exchange Server …
Slow RDP Performance on a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host
Hi, I recently encountered a problem on my Server 2008 R2 machine which is running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed. After creating a Virtual Network, when i connected via RDP to the server the performance was unbearable and was very unusable. After a little playing about i managed to find the problem. I disabled …
How do I find out which AD Schema version i am running?
You can do this by using Joe Richards excellent AD Find tool which you down download from http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm C:\>adfind -schema -s base objectversion AdFind V01.40.00cpp Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) February 2009 Using server: 2008R2DC1.testlab.local:389 Directory: Windows Server 2008 R2 Base DN: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=testlab,DC=local dn:CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=testlab,DC=local >objectVersion: 47 1 Objects returned From this i can tell I am running …
Hyper-V KB Updates
If you need to know where to find Hyper-V specific patch updates you can find them here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893%28WS.10%29.aspx
AGPM 4.0 to be released in October
Taken from here: http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2009/09/15/agpm-4-0-to-be-released-in-october.aspx As part of the official announcement on the MDOP blog, Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 (AGPM) will be releasing in October to customers. With this release we had strong feedback on two main areas of improvement and an additional area that improves discoverability and manageability. 1. Multi Forest/Multi Domain Support We …