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...

There is a very huge changes and enhancements from SCCM 2007 in Configuration Manager 2012, in this post series I will go through the main new changes and enhancements in System Center Configuration Manager 2012, I will start in this post with addressing...

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...

Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take a generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide continuous data protection...

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 Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Deployment and Configuration in Step by Step format with screenshots, and will go into details of the product to help you better understand how you can get benefits from this...

In this post series I will go through Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Deployment and Configuration in Step by Step format with screenshots, and will go into details of the product to help you better understand how you can get benefits from this...

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 this post series I will go through Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Deployment and Configuration in Step by Step format, and will go into details of the product to help you better understand how you can get benefits from this powerful product...

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...

In this post series I will go through Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Deployment and Configuration in Step by Step format with screenshots, and will go into details of the product to help you better understand how you can get benefits from this...

If your company relies on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization technologies within your server infrastructure, who will you trust to ensure its protection and recovery? As part of the overall Microsoft Virtualization platform, System Center...

Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide near-continuous data...

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 post series I will go through Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Deployment and Configuration in Step by Step format with screenshots, and will go into details of the product to help you better understand how you can get benefits from this...

These are a group of new Microsoft Private Cloud Videos: Video: Thought Leadership Series – Enabling Private Cloud Garth Fort talks about why you should consider converting your current datacenter infrastructure into a private cloud fabric.   Video...

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...

In this post series I started here with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog (by the way it was announced yesterday (1st of August) that Windows Server 2012 is RTM today), then I start highlighting the main areas of enhancements that I will...

this post series I went through step by step into System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 starting from “ Pre-Build ”, then I continued with “ Installing Operations Manager Database ”, followed by another post “ Installing Root Management Server”, then...

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 started here http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/07/10/windows-server-2012-part1-release-date.aspx with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog and highlighted the main areas of enhancements that I will focus on...

These are the new released Lync 2010 cumulative updates and fixes: Cumulative update package for Lync 2010 (64bit) & (32 bit): January 2011 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2467763 Cumulative update for Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone Edition...

I gave an overview about Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 1 “Overview” and then I went through Hosting Description in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part -2 “Hosting Description”...

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...