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Microsoft operating systems, starting from Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and now Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, have always had a built-in method of extending or expanding a partition that was configured on the computer’s physical hard disks. While shrinking partitions was not possible internally, and usually required usage of 3rd-Party tools,…

How can I export an IPSec Policy from one computer and import it to another computer? As written in previous articles (see related articles at bottom of page), Windows 2000/XP/2003 machines have a built-in IP security mechanism called IPSec (IP Security). IPSec is a protocol that’s designed to protect individual TCP/IP packets traveling across your…

  Active Directory snapshots in Windows Server 2008 allow an administrator to either manually, or programmatically, create snapshots of the Active Directory database at a given time. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in Directory Services Restore…

How can I tell if an SSL certificate has expired or not before I enter the secured site? Any website operator that wants to secure the site or some of it’s pages with SSL must obtain a valid certificate from a trusted third party CA. If you try to enter a secure website that uses…

Finally, the entire set of Exchange Server 2007 documentation has been made available. You can access it in 2 ways – online (you have to be connected to the Internet to view it; or offline. This documentation is of high importance for anyone who wished to better understand the new messaging system that was released…

Many features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange Server have been removed from Exchange 2007. Some of these features have replaced by other Microsoft products, other simply do not exist, and require you to keep an older version of Exchange 2000/2003 if you wish to continue using them. This article describes the components, features…

Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released on the 19th of October 2005. You can download SP2 for Exchange 2003 right here: Download Exchange 2003 SP2 (109mb) Required Patches Currently, if you’re running Exchange Server 2003 with SP2 there are no security-related patches that you should apply.

You should consider installing Service Pack 2 as soon as possible Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released on the 19th of October 2005. You can download SP1 for Exchange 2003 right here: Download Exchange 2003 SP2 (109mb) Required Patches If you’re running Exchange 2003 with SP1 you should apply the following security-related patches:…

Exchange 2000 Server SP3 Patches SP3 info You can download SP3 for Exchange 2000 right here: Download Exchange 2000 SP3 (165mb) Required Patches If you’re running Exchange 2000 with SP3 on a Windows 2000 box with SP4 you should apply the following security-related patches: April 2005 MS05-021 : Vulnerability in Exchange Server Could Allow Remote…

In knowledge base article 158530 , Microsoft have published a list of all of their releases of Exchange server, starting from Exchange 4.0 back in 1996, and ending in the present with Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Each version of Microsoft Exchange Server has a different build number, and when installing Service Packs on Exchange Server,…

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB 940006) has been officially released at the end of August 2007. The update is live at THIS LINK, and will also be offered through Microsoft Update. To read more about Update Rollup 4 please see KB 940006. Download the 32-bit version (30.1 mb) Download the 64-bit version…

As we all know, Exchange Server 2007 is here to stay, so we might as well get used to it. This week I’ve given a 4 hour demonstration and feature review of Exchange Server 2007, and with it I also reviewed the many changes that are incorporated into Service Pack 1, scheduled to be released…