Windows Server 2008 R2, with PowerShell 2.0 and the GroupPolicy management module allows for powerful administration of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) based Group Policy. A question came up during a recent session of the Group Policy course, and then again the following week during a session of a PowerShell course. The distilled-down question […]
A student recently brought up the following issue/question: “I have Outlook XP clients predominantly, and they’re OK, but I also have some Outlook 2007 clients on my network, and I get an error message each time they open Outlook 2007.” Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, especially with Outlook Anywhere (OA), as well as the Exchange […]
Windows NT 4.0 included an implementation of the Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) for both the NT4 Workstation and NT4 Server products, with a client for Windows 95 OSR2, and PPTP is still supported in Windows and other operating systems. Virtual Private Networking (VPN) technologies have evolved since then. In fact, could they have […]
In a recent post, I described a high-level overview of 802.1x authentication. Now, let’s dive a bit deeper into the use of 802.1x as a foundation for Network Access Protection (NAP) enforcement of health policies in a Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure. Recall that 802.1x can be used with Ethernet switches and Wireless Access Points […]
How do you really know that the computers on your network are valid and legitimate? The flip-side of the coin asks how do those machines know that they’re connected to the proper network? Those are both good questions that we often look at in the course Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure […]
As I’ve mentioned before, SharePoint Server 2010 comes with 531 SharePoint-specific PowerShell cmdlets — little commands for SharePoint management — built in to the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. Now, let’s take a quick survey of some of these cmdlets as well as some tips on how you can get up-to-speed with managing SharePoint with PowerShell. Like all PowerShell cmdlets, […]
Web-based administration via a web browser enables secure, remote, flexible administration of many services. SharePoint Server 2010, unlike many other Microsoft products, is not managed with a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, but with such a web interface. It might seem that this management motif has it all. A farm of servers may be managed […]
Just about a year ago, I posted an article here about using Windows PowerShell for logon scripts. As noted in that post, to start you off, I presented a “Basic” example (and I’m not referring to VisualBasic script here) in quoting a Microsoft example. Also in that post were several other tips such as “the […]
With Exchange Server 2010 SP1 in the wild now, many organizations who are still hosting their messaging services with Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 or other platforms are finally looking to upgrade to Exchange Server 2010, but with this latest service pack included with the upgrade. True, many other companies have already migrated to Exchange Server […]
In a recent article, I introduced the first part of an answer to the now common question, “What’s this SharePoint 2010 ribbon interface I keep hearing about?” In the previous article, we took a quick tour through the ribbon interface for regular page content. Now, let’s venture into the Site Actions. As described in the […]
