Windows Server 2008

A few days ago, on the 4th of February 2008, Microsoft has finalized the Windows Server 2008 code, declaring it Ready to Manufacture (RTM) – Read more about it on my “Windows Server 2008 is RTM” article. Unlike in any previous product in Microsoft’s history, for this release Microsoft took an unusual step by including…

One of an administrator‘s main chores is the tedious task of having to go through server event logs and monitor them for any error, warning, or abnormal event. Naturally, many management and monitoring tools such as Microsoft MOM or System Center Operation Manager 2007 do just that – monitor these events for you. However, in…

As you already know by now, in Windows Server 2008,  Server Core installation does not include the traditional full graphical user interface (GUI). You can read more about Server Core on my “Understanding Windows Server 2008 Core” article. Without going to much into detail, because of the lack of GUI, installing applications on server core…

So far in this article series, I have talked about the new printer management utilities included in Windows Server 2008, and shown you how to consolidate network print servers.  In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to use group policies to deploy the network printers to network clients. Client…

One of the things that always seems weird about wireless networking is that companies typically go to great lengths to make sure that their wireless networks are secure, but often times do nothing to ensure that employees are actually connecting to the correct network. In fact, I recently received an e-mail from someone who had…

Tape backups have been around for a very, very long time. We’re used to them by now, and although they serve their main purpose they do have their limitations. Tape backups haven’t progressed with the rest of technology and we’re paying the price. For one, tapes just don’t have enough capacity. The best you can…

Daniel shows you how to remotely manage the firewall for Windows Server 2008 Server Core.

Virtual machine technology enables multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single machine. Microsoft Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, enables one or more operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical system. Hyper-V provides scalability and high performance by supporting features like guest multi-processing support and 64-bit guest and host…

In the previous article in this series, I showed you how data collector sets could free an administrator from having to select individual Performance Monitor Counters. Even so, knowing that a data collector set can make the selection easier is one thing, but actually performing an analysis is something entirely different. In this article, I…

If you recall, I’ve recently began working for ObserveIT (www.observeit-sys.com), a startup company that has an amazing solution for one of the toughest questions that IT professionals face in today’s dynamic IT world: Who touched my servers, what did they do, what did my privileged users do, what did my external vendors change on my…