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Where can I download NetMeeting for Windows 98 and NT4.0? NetMeeting lets you hold video conference calls, send text messages, collaborate on shared documents, and draw on an electronic whiteboard over the Internet or an intranet. Note: You may want to read Where’s NetMeeting in Windows XP/2000/2003?. NetMeeting has the following features: Video and Audio…

In this episode of Petri Dish, I speak to Michael Masciulli, Managing Director of Migration Products and Services at Semperis, and an expert in transformational IT and Active Directory. He tells me why you should consider consolidating your Active Directory domains, the benefits for organizational security, how to mitigate some of the risks, and how…

How can I publish OWA 2003 with ISA Server 2004? Publishing OWA 2003 with an internal certificate (issued by an unknown/un-trusted CA) Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 has made a significant breakthrough in publishing Secured web-sites in general and Outlook Web Accesses specifically. We don’t need another exchange server for use as a front-end…

Microsoft announced the release of the October 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 yesterday. This month, the company has addressed 103 security vulnerabilities, including three actively exploited zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft WordPad, Skype for Business, and the HTTP/2 protocol. October 2023 Patch Tuesday updates fix over 100 vulnerabilities In October, Microsoft…

The concept of server virtualization has been around for quite a few years now, but it seems to just now really be taking off.  The basic idea behind server virtualization is that many servers tend to be grossly underused.  It is not uncommon for a server to only use about 10% of its hardware resources. …

It’s the end of an era: On Tuesday, Microsoft issued its final set of Patch Tuesday security updates for Windows Server 2003.

Join Petri IT Knowledgebase Contributing Editor Russell Smith and Ryan Post, an inside systems engineer at Veeam, as they discuss what IT professionals need to know about Windows Server 2003 End of Support, which arrives on July 14th, 2015. Learn about Server 2003 to Server 2012 migration tips, including how to manage Active Directory, virtual…

Microsoft has released yesterday the January Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. Yesterday also marked the end of support for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows RT 8.1. Microsoft had already ended support for Windows 7 back in January 2020, but the company is now sunsetting its Extended Security Updates program for…

How do I use EXMERGE to make Brick-Level backups of Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes? One of the most important tasks for an Exchange administrator is the regular, day-by-day, backing up of all the Exchange databases. This can be easily accomplished by use of the built-in NTBACKUP.EXE software found on your Exchange 2000/2003 server. Note: You can…

In this article, Daniel explains how to replace the default Windows Recovery Environment with DaRT version 6.5. Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) is a part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 R2 and is the new version of Winternals ERD Commander.