This step is important when decide to build a brand new Green Field Windows 2008 Active Directory service and want to start utilizing the new Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory by importing all organization users’ names and passwords into the Active...

I found that it is very important to know what is new in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences, that is why I shared this information that I collected from Microsoft Documentation. With the release of Windows Server 2008 additional...

Typically in the upgrade scenario moving mailboxes will be done from Exchange 2007/2003 mailbox databases (Source) to Exchange 2010 mailbox databases (Target). When moving mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Exchange...

In this post series I will go through System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Power Management showing general overview and prerequisites for the new SCCM 2007 R3 Power Management feature and then deeply go through the step by step to enable and configure...

In some OCS 2007/R2 Implementation scenarios without Enterprise Voice it is required that all user’s Telephone numbers in Active Directory to be populated to Office Communicator 2007/R2 though Office Communication Server 2007/R2 Address Book, so...

The transition process from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 is a relatively straightforward process and involves the following high level tasks: 1. Prepare to upgrade and coexistence Exchange 2010 with Exchange Server 2007, this step include: a. Upgrade...

In this series of posts I will go through Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting details starting from Overview, Deployment, Migration, Multi-Tenant,...etc. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 supports hosting deployments and provides Hosting Partners the core feature...

This post explains how to configure Office Communications Server in a resource forest topology, in a resource topology, a single resource forest contains all Office Communications Server servers and disables user accounts for each logon enabled account...

For Environment with high percentage of clients are using Outlook 2003, and because there are some common client access considerations for outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010, then some preparations on client side should be done to cover all considerations...

In this post series I will go through detailed steps related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007 R2, In 1 st part here I...

In most of large System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment different Administrators can manage the IT environment using their Administrative accounts using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Console that is locally installed on their...

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

Lync Server (new Microsoft release of Office Communication Server) is an enterprise real-time communications server, providing the infrastructure for enterprise instant messaging, presence, file transfer, peer-to-peer and multiparty voice and video calling...

In the past discovering new objects from Active Directory and to start managing any new object was taking long time, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 introduce a new good feature called Delta Discovery. In this post I will go through a new...

In this series of posts I started with giving an overview about Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting here , and in this post I will go through Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Description, Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting introduces a new multi-tenant model with accompanying...

In this post series I will go through detailed steps related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007 R2, In this part I will...

Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 includes several new enhancements, it also introduces two important new features for customers using the Windows Server virtualization stack, the very good feature in SP1 is Dynamic Memory which is the subject for this post...

Update on the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant as of December 22, 2010. · Coexistence Scenarios Released - On December 2, Microsoft released an update to the tool that included modifications and content to include rich coexistence information...

In this post I will go through a new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 feature which is Dynamic Collection that can increase collection speed and decrease load on Configuration Manager Database, Query-based collections in Configuration Manager...

Finally MAP 5.5 released, Download MAP Toolkit 5.5 Now you can planning for migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5. This multifaceted tool is now even better—with assessment...

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

In this post series I will go through System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Power Management showing general overview and prerequisites for the new SCCM 2007 R3 Power Management feature and then deeply go through the step by step to enable and configure...