John Howard has posted a series of blogcasts (e.g., video clips published on a blog) that walk you through the process of using VSMT to migrate a Windows NT 4.0 server into a virtual machine running under Virtual Server 2005. You can find them on his...

Michael Swanson beat me to it blogging about the availability of the beta code - if you've not already seen it I recommend checking out his article for an excellent overview. The beta code itself can be freely downloaded from here . Our internal testing...

An entire week of webcasts can be registered for at the ISA event site "Whether you plan to upgrade to Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 or want to learn how to get the most from your current ISA deployment, this week of technical webcasts...

You might want to bookmark this one, a single resource with lots of information. Before you "run" and upgrade system to Windows 2003 domain there are some considerations to take: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;555040&SD=tec...

Experiencing this? When you try to install/uninstall some application/s, you may get warning messages like: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" "Windows Installer Service couldn’t be started" "Could not start the Windows Installer service...

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Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell the date that an Active Directory user account was created? -- DD Hey, DD. And thanks: between the work that piled up over the holidays, the upcoming Scripting Week 2, and a nasty flu bug that’s going around,...

Although there are high-level instructions on performing a migration in the VSMT whitepaper ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/overview/vsmtwhitepaper.mspx ), if you're going to do a serious migration, you need to follow the...

If you missed my two previous postings in this series of blogcasts walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, part one can be viewed here , and part two can be viewed here...

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Today I was pointed to an article with a very interesting easy approach to protect a web site against hackers: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/01/hackerbasher/default.aspx...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete a computer account from Active Directory, but provide a Yes/No prompt to the user before the account is actually deleted? -- NM Hey, NM. Let’s start by showing you how to delete a computer account from Active Directory....

Ok, so that title sort of says it all. You’ll find that installing a roll-up hotfix onto an Exchange 2000 or 2003 server may not update the display in the Exchange System Manager to reflect the new version. So what’s really going on? For example,...

We’ve all been waiting a long time for SQL Server 20005 and not everyone has been able to get the betas to get an early look. Well now anyone can get their hands on the beta 2 of SQL Server 2005 Express edition. The Express edition, what’s that? We never...

I hope you enjoyed the first two blogcast demonstrations of VSMT I blogged about yesterday. Today, I'm publishing part two which contains the next two blogcasts in the series. The third VSMT blogcast walks through validating the XML file describing the...

The Migration Wizard matches target NT accounts based on matching the SID of the source mailbox with the SID History (e.g. account migrated with ADMT), SID (e.g. accounts domain was upgraded) or msExchMasterAccountSID (e.g. resource forest scenario) on...

The Resource Tool Kit 2.0 for Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS) is now available for download . The primary focus of the new release has been to improve the portfolio of tools that helps the manageability of the MIIS system. A description...

Summary from KB Article : When you open the Virtual Server Administration Website in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, you receive the following error message: Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied. You can specify an alternate virtual server...

Back in the year 2000 Scott Culp published a paper outlining the 10 Immutable Laws of Security . I've restated them here to be concise but strongly encourage you to read the original article as it develops each law to discuss each in turn. If you're new...

It's pure coincidence that many of my posts today discuss Bruce Schneier's content. I came across an interesting webcast from Bruce Schneier while reading Julien Couvreur's Blog . The webcast is rather old (year 2000) though the vast majority of the content...

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Bruce Schneier gave a interesting podcast promoting his new book Beyond Fear . Lots of common sense and yet highly relavent information and some great quotes including the following: "More people are killed per year by pigs than by Sharks" - based on...

The ITConversations website contains some very interesting broadcasts from eminent security speakers. The top level site includes a vast range of topics. The site includes the tag line of "Listener-supported audio programs, interviews and important events"...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read only the last record written to an event log? In other words, what is the WMI equivalent to the SQL statement Select Top 1 ? -- KM Hey, KM. Well, as it turns out WMI doesn’t have an equivalent to the Select Top command;...

Blogcast, podcast, mini-webcast.... What's in a name - well quite a lot judging by some of the reactions I've had. Leaving the name issue to one side, I've recorded a series of eight clips which walk through the process of migrating an NT4 server into...