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Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 Requirements

  The process of installing an Active Directory domain in Windows Server 2008 is quite simple, but some beginners or IT professionals that have never had a chance to get their hands on AD installations and that are not familiar with its requirements might stumble across a few pitfalls. So, what do we need in…

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Creating and Managing Virtual Servers with Windows 2008 Server and Hyper-V

In the two previous articles in this series (Planning for Windows Server 2008 Virtualization and Implementing Hyper Vision in Windows Server 2008), I walked you through planning and installing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to install a virtual operating system. Installing a Virtual Operating…

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Configuring Windows Server 2008 Server Core Basic Networking Settings

Daniel Petri reveals some tips and tricks to optimizing the networking settings in Server Core, which was introduced in Windows Server 2008.

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Windows Server 2008 is RTM

Windows Server 2008 is RTM After more than 3 years of hard work and with over 5000 people working full time on it, Windows Server 2008 was finally released to manufacturing (RTM) today and will be available for purchase to new customers on March 1, 2008. ISO images can already be downloaded from the Microsoft…

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Windows Server 2008 Israeli Launch Event

Last week Microsoft Israel held a major Windows Server 2008 launch event, with more than 350 attendees and many display booths. The event took place in Akko (north of Haifa), and was sponsored by Mediatech-Hi-Tech, one of Israel’s largest training centers. The main event was presented By Daniel Petri, who spoke for over 4 hours…

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How to Quickly Analyze your Windows Server 2008 Performance Monitor Logs

Ever have a performance problem, but don’t know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (that are provided). The tool…

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Running More than 128 VMs on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008, and provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. Hyper-V provides a great virtualization solution for many small, medium and large organizations. Some of the capabilities of Hyper-V include x64 host and guest support, ability to run guest machines…

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IPv6’s Role in Windows Server 2008

One of the biggest architectural changes in Windows Server 2008 is the inclusion of IPv6. IPv6 has been a part of Windows since Windows 2000, but Windows Server 2008 is the first version of Windows to enable IPv6 by default. Furthermore, The transport stack has been completely redesigned so that IPv6 and IPv4 are able…

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Domain Controller Virtualization Options

One of the most frequent questions on virtualization forums that deal with server deployments is the question of how should one deploy their Active Directory domain controllers. Should they be deployed on stand-alone separate servers, should they be kept on separate physical servers, or should they be run inside virtual machines that are hosted on…

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RDP Security – Designing Terminal Server Security

Remotely accessing your servers and workstations through terminal services or RDP is an easy method of doing your job from a remote location, or gaining access to specific published applications that have been published on your servers. However, without properly investing in securing these types of RDP connections, you could be compromising the security and…

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