Installing and Configuring Windows Server Backup for Hyper-V
Introduction Windows Server 2008 provides a built-in backup solution called Windows Server Backup (WSB). Windows Server Backup uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to backup and restore your...
View ArticleActive Directory Migration Tools
The Active Directory is a database featured on Microsoft Windows operating systems. This database stores information such as component locations, users, groups, passwords, security data and executable...
View ArticleActive Directory Trust Types in Windows Server 2008
Parent-child trust This trust is implicitly created when we add a new child domain to a tree. This trust is a two-way and transitive in nature. Tree-root Trust This trust is implicitly established when...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 High Availability Technologies
Since the inception of Windows NT, Microsoft has been pursuing the goal of extending its reach from personal computing to enterprise markets. One of the important elements of this strategy was a strive...
View ArticleActive Directory Domain Services Recovery in Win Server 2008 R2
Active Directory constitutes one of the primary infrastructure components of the majority of Windows-based business environments. Effectively, its resiliency and recoverability are inherently linked to...
View ArticleActive Directory Domain Services Recovery in Win Server 2008 R2
Active Directory constitutes one of the primary infrastructure components of the majority of Windows-based business environments. Effectively, its resiliency and recoverability are inherently linked to...
View ArticleError “RPC Server Unavailable” while requesting IP-HTTPS certificate on UAG
If your enabling DirectAccess on Forefront Unified Gateway in a lab, and you try to request an IP-HTTPS certificate for the UAG machine from your Enterprise CA, you might run into the following error:...
View ArticleFirst look on Windows 8 and his features
Windows 8 has been the topic of speculation for many months now, but as was the case with Windows 7, Microsoft is pretty tight-lipped about what’s to come in the next version of its flagship operating...
View ArticleHow to troubleshoot FTP Services on Windows 2008 Server
I’ve been running FTP Services on Windows Servers since the days of Windows NT. Personally, I prefer a 3rd party product such as RhinoSoft’s ServU or Ipswitch’s WS_FTP Server. But “free” is a good...
View ArticleHow to use Windows Server Backup for Hyper-V
In my work with Hyper-V beta and with the release candidates, I have needed to recover virtual machines (VMs) that we tested. Most vendor products — even Microsoft Data Protection Manager — did not...
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