A follow-up of this posting with screencast is available.
Event subscription has been one of the most requested server features by sys admins. Combined with task scheduling, this is a cost-effective and customizable tool to get a consolidated view of monitored activities and events in target servers, and timely issue alerts. In Windows Server 2008 subscribing and forwarding events with triggers to send out alerts can be done very easily as the following:
1. Create a subscription from Event Viewer.
2. Configure the subscription based on your requirements. The shown configuration settings are for demonstration and not necessarily recommended.
Select Computers
Select Events
Advanced settings
Make sure clicking User and Password and providing the user credentials.
3. Once configured, the subscription is listed as ready. Right-click to start running the task.
4. Now the subscribed events will be listed under the Forward Events log. Notice a subscribed event may take some time to show up in the log after it has occurred at a targeted server. If user credentials and minimizing the latency are specified, the forwarding should happen within a minute or so.
To schedule a task for sending out alerts upon the arrival of a subscribed event,
1. Start Task Scheduler from the Administrative Tools.
2. Configure the task based on your requirements. The shown configuration settings are for demonstration and not necessarily with recommended.
3. Once configured, the task is listed as ready. Right-click to start running the task.
Many of you attended my launch events seeing the virtualization demos running on Hyper-V of Windows Server 2008 from my HP Compaq 6910P laptop wrote me showing a strong interest to try it yourselves. To run Hyper-V, you want to first make sure your hardware can support the technology by reviewing the Windows Server catalog. And for staying up with Microsoft virtualization technology, Microsoft virtualization site and Windows Virtualization Team Blog are great resources.
Ways to deploy retail and volume license copies of Office 2008 are different. Information on how to deploy Office 2008 is available here. Notice you cannot deploy retail versions of Office across an organization from a central location. To deploy Office 2008 centrally, your organization must have a volume license.
The process is fairly straightforward. I have captured the screen flow and make it available here. Groove Server 2007 Relay installation screen flow is published as well.
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