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Take complete walk through on the steps taken to set up your Windows Vista Ultimate system to multi-boot with Windows 7 Ultimate edition as Jason Zandri shows you how to prepare your existing system so that there is a free partition for the install.

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft. In this article, Jason Zandri takes you on a complete walk through on the steps taken to upgrade your Windows Vista Ultimate installation to Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

Server virtualization can save money by making better use of your hardware resources. Even so, deciding which servers should be virtualized, and which server should host which virtual servers is something of an art form. In this article, Brien Posey shows you a free tool from Microsoft that can help you with the planning process.

We’ve recently had to configure a couple of client’s SBS2008 Exchange 2007 servers to act as SMTP relays for remote users. Why not just use OWA or Outlook Anywhere? It mostly seems to be Mac users, in particular those with “MobileMe”, which insists on IMAP and SMTP to communicate with the mail server. Adding authenticated SMTP in Exchange 2003 was a pretty simple process, but the procedure in 2007 is not so obvious – read on to find out how to do that, and enable anonymous relaying too.

Daniel Petri will be attending the Infosecurity Europe 2009 which will take place next week at Earls Court, London. Daniel would be happy to meet and talk with forum and site members. Email Daniel ([email protected]) if you’re in the area. Daniel who is holding the role of VP Technologies at ObserveIT will demonstrate the unique…

A new version of Windows Server 2008 has been announced: Windows Server 2008 Foundation. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri examines the benefits and limitations of this new addition to the Windows Server family; geared towards smaller and growing organizations.

Deciding how many mailbox stores to place on an Exchange Server, and deciding how to arrange the storage groups can be something of an art form. In this article, Brien Posey discusses more considerations for store and storage group placement.

Backing up your Group Policy Objects allows you to restore group policy settings without having to perform an entire Active Directory restoration. In this article, Brien Posey walk you through the process.

In the past few months, Microsoft has begun an interesting project to build out automated solutions for many KB articles that allow administrators to perform some necessary fixes without having to manually intervene with the operating system. These are the “Fix It For Me” articles. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri introduces this new resource.

Templates can be used to create multiple mailboxes using a single command. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how it’s done.

The way that storage groups and mailbox databases are used on a mailbox server has a huge impact on the server’s performance and reliability. In this article, Brien Posey explains why this is the case, and helps you to figure out the best mailbox server architecture for your own environment.

This tip was submitted by Sorin Solomon, one of the Petri forums moderators: Those who followed the instructions in the article Installing Remote Server Administrative Tools on Windows Vista have probably noticed that even after installing the required RSAT tools on Windows Vista, few tabs are missing in the User properties in Active Directory Users…