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This month sees significant changes in Exchange Server security and critical patches for Windows and SharePoint Server.

Recovery storage groups were first introduced in Exchange Server 2003.  At the time, the idea behind them was that you could restore Exchange database into the recovery storage group, and then use ExMerge to merge the data from the recovery storage group into the production database.  In Service Pack 1, Microsoft improve the process so…

MC552334 – Updated June 13, 2023: Microsoft will not be rolling out to GCC, GCC-High, DoD and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet as described below. Organizations in these environments can safely disregard this message and Microsoft will communicate the new timeline via Message center when it’s ready to proceed. Additionally, MC496248 (January ’23) is not…

Port scanning is a technique used to determine the states of network ports on a host and to map out hosts on a network. In this article, I’ll go over the very basics of port scanning with the NMAP tool. NMAP Overview Port States NMAP will categorize ports as being in one of the following…

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system, scheduled to be officially released during Q1 2008. Formerly known as “Longhorn Server”, Windows Server 2008 is designed to help IT Professionals to maximize control over their infrastructure, while providing enhanced availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure,…

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBM) developed by Microsoft that competes with Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other RDBMs. In this article, I’ll explain in detail what SQL Server is and go through its release history over the past three decades. I’ll also detail what are the different SQL Server versions…

As you probably read in my previous articles – “Recovering Deleted Items in Active Directory” and “Restore Windows Server 2003 Active Directory“, an administrator might sometime need to restore deleted objects from the Active Directory database. You see, when an object is deleted from Active Directory, it is not immediately erased, but is marked for…

In Part 2 of his series on Crash Dump Analysis, Michael Simmons discusses the memory dump files themselves. Michael explains which type of memory dump is best for your situation and how to make sure you can find them after they are saved.

In today’s The Friday Funny, we explore the relationship between Apple, Microsoft, and the stoner as IT product pitchman.

Active Directory is a hierarchical database that holds information about the network’s resources such as computers, servers, users, groups and more. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Normal administrative tasks when working with Active Directory include creating, managing, moving, editing and sometimes – deleting – various objects…