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A lot of the effort that goes into administering an Active Directory can be minimized by using Replmon. This tool provides a very useful GUI to accomplish several key tasks for AD administrators. Unfortunately, it does not come installed on Windows Server 2008, though it can be. This article will walk you through the process of setting up Replmon on Windows Server 2008.

Server Message Blocks Protocol (SMB) is the file sharing protocol used by default on Windows-based computers. SMB 1.0 was designed for early Windows network operating systems such as Microsoft LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups, but until Windows Server 2008 and Vista, all Microsoft-based operating systems continued to use it more or less in its…

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 is a mission-critical update that provides administrators with advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs. Download details: Exchange Server 2007 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a Since Exchange Server 2007 has been originally offered as either…

  Before you can introduce Windows Server 2008 domain controllers into existing Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 domains, you must prepare the forest and domains with the ADPREP utility. ADPREP.exe is a command-line tool that extends the Active Directory schema, and updates permissions as necessary to prepare a forest and domain for a domain…

Job interview coming up? Daniel continues his series on technical job interview questions for MCSE’s and System admins with a focus on Windows Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V and Virtualization topics.

Daniel compiles the key questions interviewers need to ask and candidates should prepare for in an MCSE or system administrator job interview. In part 5 of his series, Daniel specifically covers off Exchange Server 2007/2010 interview questions.

In a surprising but welcome announcement, Microsoft moved the end of extended support for Exchange 2010 to October 2020. This version of Exchange was the most technology-rich and significant in the product’s history, which might be the reason why so many organizations still depend on Exchange 2010 for email. Better options exist, and Exchange Online is the natural place to go… if your network and applications allow the move.

Microsoft is preparing to drop support for its Microsoft 365 apps on some older versions of Windows next year. The software giant has announced that Microsoft 365 apps will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 after January 10, 2023. The recent blog post follows Microsoft’s previous announcement made last…

There are times that you may want to use Windows Server 2008 as your personal workstation OS, and Daniel Petri shows you how.

With the release of Exchange 2007 in the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has continued on building the mobile usage and capabilities of Exchange Server, features that were first introduced in Exchange 2003 RTM. In this article I will try to describe the changes found in Exchange 2007 when compared to the list of features we…