Mark Empson's Blogalot : Windows 2008

ADPREP Challenges

mempson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:07:00 GMT

I had an interesting challenge last month and figured that this is a great one for my blog. Being based in England, I had never come across this issue before so it was very interesting. I arrived on a customer site to help perform a Windows Server 2008...(read more)

Playing with NAP

mempson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:07:33 GMT

Hi all, I have been playing with Network Access Protection (NAP) recently and have a few pointers that may help you all out :) Event ID 204 on the NAP server is raised when clients do not meet policy requirements Event ID...(read more)

Fine Grain Password Policies (FGPP)

mempson — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Hi, Having played with FGPP's recently at Teched, I figured that it would be good to publish the attributes that are required to create one and their value types. The attributes required for creating a fine grain password policy. msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecendence...(read more)

2008 interesting links

mempson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:22:00 GMT

If you are feeling a little limited in information about Windows 2008, check out the following featured components: · AD DS: Restartable Active Directory Domain Services Windows 2008 introduced new capabilities to start or stop directory services running...(read more)

Virtualising servers

mempson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:20:00 GMT

Hi All, I have started collecting a list of whitepapers based upon virtualisation of domain controllers and services, I just figured that you may find these of use! KB897615 Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization...(read more)

RDP to Windows 2008

mempson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:05:00 GMT

Hi all, I have installed a Windows 2008 server into my Windows 2003 domain, I then enabled RDP on my Windows 2008 server verified that I could connect from my Vista client on the network. While working from home, I quickly found out that I could not RDP...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 Core Quick Reference

mempson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:38:00 GMT

This month I have been setting up my first Windows 2008 core server to go into a production environment. It has been a very interesting experience as I was expecting a straight forward process but ran into a few challenges. What with some vendor specific...(read more)

Poster Central

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:27:00 GMT

Hi all, Ever wanted a change in decor in your house? rather than boring old patterned wallpaper, what about getting some great posters with core components of specific technologies to put in their place... amaze your friends, impress your spouse.. check...(read more)

The big thick book of Windows 2008

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Microsoft have created a "Book of Longhorn" that covers all the c hanges in functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server 2008. I really recommend having a look at this one... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=173E6E9B-4D3E-4FD4-A2CF-73684FA46B60&displaylang=e...(read more)

Where is the MCSE for Windows 2008?

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:22:00 GMT

Well, this is an interesting subject, as many of you know there is not an MCSE for the Windows 2008 family and it has been replaced with a new exciting qualification. So, L et’s have a look at some of the new details, We have four new(ish) qualifications...(read more)

Key Firewall ports for Windows server 2008

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:19:00 GMT

Some just might say that security has gone mad these days, gone are the times when we only used firewalls to protect our internal network infrastructure from external attack. Certainly I now see many of our customers deploying internal firewalls to protect...(read more)

Windows 2008 upgrade paths

mempson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:18:00 GMT

With the Windows 2008 finally being released to manufacture this past month, we will now be expecting a whole bunch of questions surrounding the Windows 2008 migration process. This part of the newsletter is looking at what you need to know to answer...(read more)

Some Useful Links for you all!

mempson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:49:00 GMT

News Details Link GPMC Scripts The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) provides a comprehensive set of COM interfaces that you can use to script many of the operations supported by the console. Included in this download is a set of sample scripts that...(read more)