The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD) tool is now available for download for free from the Microsoft Web Site at the following address: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-862661742764&displaylang...

Application compatibility is one the most important challenges faced by organizations when deploying new operating systems. It's very important we provide the information and resources that people need to identify and resolve application compatibility...

We've just released a new TechCenter on Technet - www.microsoft.com/technet/springboard . This site is aimed at IT professionals and intended to help offer the right tools, processes and guidance to deploy Vista easily. There are monthly articles, links...

Recently, I’ve been working with a large international customer on a short project, helping them upgrade their desktops globally to Vista. The customer requirements were as follows: Deploy Vista to both existing XP workstations and to new (bare metal...

Unified Tools and Guidance for Desktop and Server Deployment Automation. Download it today! We are pleased to announce the official release of the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator! Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop...

We have produced a number of detail rich posters which provide a useful feature reference for new features and functionality in Windows 2008 (OS / AD), Exchange 2007, and SQL 2005. They are available for download in PDF format at the locations linked...

The purpose of this post is to announce two upcoming releases of management tools for Windows, Group Policy Preferences and the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista. As you may know Microsoft acquired DesktopStandard last year...

The concept of the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series is to distill down to the core decisions required for planning and designing the IT infrastructures necessary to support business services. The first wave of released guidance introduces...

Here are some useful scripts that I came upon as a result of a recent project I worked on. Most of these scripts had already been written and were available for download of the web – some of these we took and changed to fit the requirement. Always...

We recently worked on a project with a customer to help deploy Windows 2003 SP2 to their server environment which consisted of approximately 180 servers. Some of their servers were at SP1 but the majority of the servers were sitting at SP0. The purpose...

We just completed a project focused on: 1. Active Directory Delegation 2. Controlling Access to PC’s and Servers and Services within a Windows 2003 environment with approximately 200 servers and 4000 users over a distributed environment. The server...

Just recently I worked on a project with a customer who migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. It was an InterOrg migration and we used Microsoft native tools to complete it. As any of you pre-Exchange 2007 administrators will appreciate, administration...

Every time a new office version is released, customers have the same reservations and concerns - their Excel macros might break, or Access databases might become unusable. This is a very understandable issue particularly in financial environments whereby...