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In my first article in this series on creating lightweight directory services, I explained that the Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) had replaced Active Directory Application Mode in Windows Server 2008. I talk about some real world examples of how AD LDS is used. In this article, I want to finish off the series by…

The Light Weight Directory Services, or AD LDS, has been around in one form or another for quite a few years now. In Windows Server 2003, this service was called the Active Directory Application partition, or ADAM. Being that the service’s new name is the Lightweight Directory Service, I hate to describe the service as…

If you have been using Exchange Server for a while, then you probably remember when Microsoft introduced ActiveSync policies in Exchange Server 2003 SP2.  The policies that were available in that version of Exchange Server were a good start, but there were a bit lacking.  For starters, you only have the option of creating a…

A lot of Exchange administrators are surprised to learn that in most cases a new Exchange Server 2007 deployment is not able to send mail to the outside world until the administrator does some additional configuration.  The reason for this is that unless you have installed an Edge transport server, and created an Edge subscription,…

When a company with an existing Exchange Server organization begins adding Exchange 2007 servers to the mix, it is tempting to remove the old Exchange 2003 servers immediately upon completion of the migration process. However, it has been my experience that immediately decommissioning legacy servers is a big mistake. In this article, I will explain…

By now you’re probably familiar with the idea that Exchange Server 2007 is designed in such a way that every message flows through a central pipeline.  Microsoft designed Exchange Server in this way so that there would be a central portal through which all messages flow, and therefore messages could be analyzed in certain types…

In the first article in this series, I outlined three steps that I think are essential to the Exchange 2007 migration process. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by providing you with some more steps in my migration best practices. Step 4: Focus on the Clients Your users aren’t going to get…

Any time that I think about server migrations, I always have to cringe a little bit. I’m not anti-progress or anything, it’s just that my memory always reflects the way that we used to do migration at a company that I worked at in the early 1990s. Although it was a large, enterprise environment there…

The following article details the steps for removing Microsoft Word document passwords using the our recommended download for Office document password removal. These instructions are valid for all versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2007. Note: Use this article if you’re looking for Excel password recovery. Step 1: Install the Word Password Recovery Download To…

Perhaps you are thinking that you could care less about some routing protocol called BGP. Could it possibly have anything to do with your every day life? The answer is yes. BGP is the routing protocol of the Internet. BGP is how all Internet routers route your email and web requests across the Internet. Without…

Just like any important server on your network, Cisco routers and switches need to be periodically backed up. You don’t want your router to crash one day, get a replacement, and spend days trying to recreate the configuration file. To prevent this, make sure you backup your configurations with TFTP. Let’s find out how to…

Getting the basic networking tasks done right is the key to any PC Ethernet network, and David Davis shows you how to get off on the right foot.