Windows Server 2008: reverse lookup zone

This video also works on Server 2003. We so frequently install DNS with Active Directory, we forget that it is a full featured service on its own. This video is just one aspect of many features available from Windows DNS. This how-to video on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 domain name service (DNS) shows how to create a reverse lookup zone. Forward lookup zones resolve fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to IP Addresses. Reverse lookup zones translate IP Addresses into FQDNs. Some applications require this and sometimes this is used to prevent spoofing. It is also possible to automatically create the reverse lookup zone records (PTR) when you create the glue records (A and AAAA). Providing training videos since last Tuesday. technoblogical.com Thanks for watching.

How to Configure Windows Server 2008 R2

Extensive Configuration. Installing Active Directory and Domain Name Services. Creating and configuring the Active Directory forest. Global Primary Domain Controller Setup. Connecting Windows 7 Client to Windows Server 2008. Creating and Implementing a Sample Group Policy Object

Windows Server 2008: active directory forest part 1

This is a video on how to create an active directory forest. A forest is a DNS (Domain Name service) namespace that contains two or more domains. I create it so that the domains can communicate between each other and authenticate. I perform this on Server 2008 and promote it to a domain controller with DCPROMO. To share groups between domains, you must create universal security groups to place the groups or users from the other domain into. Providing training videos since last Tuesday. technoblogical.com Thanks for watching.

Windows Server 2008: dns zone types and replication

This how-to video on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 domain name service (DNS), shows the different zone types and replication. There are three different zone types. Primary Zone:This is for the domain controller in charge of the domain. This machine updates the records for the domain. Secondary zone: This machine merely hosts the domain. It does not update the zone. It receives all the updates, but can not update the zone. Stub zone: The machine that hosts a stub zone will have Start of Authority (SOA), name server (NS) records for another domain. That’s all. It remembers who’s in charge and who can answer queries against the domain. It’s a low maintenance solution for DNS resolution of another domain. There are four types of replications Allow replication to all DNS servers on domain controllers in this forest. Allow replication to all DNS servers on domain controllers in this domain Allow replication to all domain controllers in this domain (Windows 2000 compatibility mode) Allow replication to all domain controllers specified in a specified directory partition. This video also works on Server 2003. We so frequently DNS with Active Directory, we forget that it is a full featured service on its own. This video is just one aspect of many features available from Windows DNS. Providing training videos since last Tuesday. technoblogical.com Thanks for watching.

Higher Productivity And Security With Windows 2008 Hosting

The upgrade to Windows 2008 from Windows 2003 can bring a hosting customer multiple benefits, including power savings, better remote access, higher security, and the capacity to deliver streaming media, in addition to comprehensive disaster recovery, versatile operating system support, and new administration tools.

Power Savings Offer Lower Hosting Costs

A hosting company that offers Windows 2008 will be able to offer more processing power for less based on lower power consumption. Tests show Windows Server 2008 using less power than Windows Server 2003 when running on the same hardware at comparable levels of throughput, achieving power savings of up to 10 percent. This is achieved partly through the power management policy in Windows Server 2008 that automatically reduces the performance levels during periods of reduced demand for processor resources.

Disaster Recovery with Enhanced Backup Capabilities

Get faster backup technology and better disaster protection with Windows Server Backup in Windows 2008, using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level backup technology. This new technology offers faster backups, simplified restoration and recovery, ability to recover applications, and improved scheduling, while retaining support for manual backups. It also provides for the offsite removal of backups for disaster protection, remote administration, automatic disk usage management, extensive command-line support, and support for optical media drives and removable media.

Increased Security with a Low-profile Server Core Installation

If you have dedicated servers that aren’t run through a GUI, or that require higher security, the Server Core installation option could serve your needs. The Server Core installation is a minimal installation (1 GB of disk space) for Windows 2008 server in which only the items required for the specified server roles are installed. That reduces software maintenance, management, and attack surface on the server. The Server Core installation provides an environment for server roles including Active Directory Domain Services, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, DHCP Server, DNS Server, File Services, Print Server, and Streaming Media Services. (Windows Server Backup is not available with Server Core installation.)

Rich Communications with Streaming Media Services

Streaming Media Services allow you to deploy a Windows Media server, a platform for streaming live and on-demand digital media content over networks. If your company manages network resources to deliver rich communications for online learning, marketing, and sales, Streaming Media Services can provide the platform you need to deliver the material efficiently, robustly, and at a reasonable cost. Other uses include wireless broadband entertainment, Internet broadcasting, secure audio and video content, and high-quality IPTV over LANs.

Improved Remote Access and Services through New Terminal Services Functionality

The upgrade from Window 2003 to 2008 will improve all aspects of your remote access service using Terminal Services. Windows 2008 includes improved functionality for core functionality and for Terminal Services RemoteApp, Web Access, Printing, Licensing, and Gateway.

Terminal Services core functionality has been greatly enhanced by the addition of services such as Remote Desktop Connection, monitor spanning, which displays a remote desktop session across multiple monitors, and display data prioritization to improve screen performance by giving display, keyboard, and mouse data priority over traffic like printing or file transfers.

RemoteApp and Web Access provide access to Windows programs from virtually any location through a company-provided installation using a remote desktop client or website.

Other enhanced Terminal Services include Printing, Licensing, and Gateway. Printing has been enhanced with the Terminal Services Easy Print driver. This feature enables users to reliably print from a RemoteApp program or from a terminal server desktop session to the correct printer on their client computer. Licensing simplifies Client Access License (CAL) management and helps ensure that you don’t purchase more licenses than you need. Gateway enables users to connect to internal network resources over the Internet using a secure encrypted connection without the need to configure a VPN connection.

DNS Server Functionality, NFS Services and PowerShell

The DNS Server for Windows 2008 has been enhanced with several tools, including background zone loading to allow the DNS server to respond to requests while the Active Directory Domain Services zones are loading in separate threads, and support for IPv6 addresses to support present and future DNS clients designed to take advantage of the benefits of IPv6 addressing.

Services for Network File System (NFS) provide a file sharing solution for mixed Windows and UNIX environments. Support has been added for Active Directory Lookup, 64-bit version support, enhanced server performance, UNIX special device (the mknod function) support, and enhanced UNIX support, including Sun Microsystems Solaris version 9, Red Hat Linux version 9, IBM AIX version 5L 5.2, and Hewlett Packard HP-UX version 11i.

Windows 2008 has also added a new tool for system administrators called PowerShell. This command-line shell and scripting language can help your company achieve greater productivity with more than 130 command-line tools to enable easier administration and automation.

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Windows 7& Windows Server 2008 R2 Step-by-Step: Basic Windows Deployment for IT Professionals

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Introduction

The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help IT professionals deploy the Windows® 7 operating system.

This document demonstrates a basic example of how to configure and deploy a Windows® image. At the end of this process, you will have a valid answer file, a bootable Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) CD, and you will have deployed your first custom Windows image. After creating this basic answer file, you can modify it to include additional customizations. You can also automate parts of the process by scripting some of the manual steps in this scenario. For a comprehensive description of all the tools and deployment methods, see the Windows® Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) User’s Guide or http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121503.

In this example, you build a basic answer file, and then install Windows using that answer file. This process includes:

Step 1: Building an Answer File

Step 2: Building a Reference Installation

Step 3: Creating Bootable Windows PE Media

Step 4: Capturing the Installation onto a Network Share

Step 5: Deploying from a Network Share

70-647: What are the training materials available for Windows server 2008, enterprise administrator examination?

70-647 examination is also called as windows server 2007, enterprise administrator examination, one of the IT certifications from Microsoft. This examination is designed for the professionals who are in information technology background. Any candidates from any specialization in IT background are eligible to apply / write for this certification examination. Since Microsoft certification is valid in all parts of the world, certification examinations can be written in various languages apart from English. This option from Microsoft will be very helpful to the candidates who are from non- English speaking country zone. The language options available to the candidates are French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese etc.

Topic outlines / exam objectives for 70-647 examination:

The following are the topic outlines / exam objectives for 70-647 examination and percentage of questions asked from each section. They are:

1) Planning application services and network services- 23% questions
2) Designing the components of access management and core identity- 25% questions
3) Designing the components of access management and support identity- 29% questions
4) Designing for data availability as well as business continuity- 23% questions
Training sessions for 70-647 exam:

Training sessions are more important for the candidates during their practice for the exams. Recommended training programs available to the candidates from Microsoft are as follows:

1) Classroom training:

Classroom training can be said as one of the best training sessions for getting effective practice for the exam. The recommended training sessions from Microsoft are: 6437A (designing windows 2008 server application infrastructure), 6435A (designing windows 2008 server network infrastructure) and 6436A (designing windows 2008 server active directory service and infrastructure).

2) E- learning:

The recommended E- learning trainin r this exam from Microsoft is 10271AE (windows 2008 server enterprise administrator). The duration for this program is 26 hours.

3) Practice test:

Candidates can make use of free online practice test available in the internet. By doing continuous practice, candidates can get more efficient and also it helps them to score good marks in the examination. Time duration is more important during the examination and candidates should complete the exam within the mentioned time. Only by doing continuous practice, candidates can complete the exam within the time frame.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification awarded to Perle Systems Serial and Parallel Cards

NASHVILLE, TN—October 1, 2009— Perle Systems, the global developer and manufacturer of serial connectivity solutions today announced Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification for their full range of SPEED and UltraPort Serial Cards and SPEED Parallel cards. Perle is the first major serial connectivity company to have a digitally signed Microsoft driver for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.  All drivers can be downloaded from Perle’s website.

“Perle Systems continues lead the industry when it comes to support for the widest range of operating systems.” comments Julie McDaniel, Vice President Marketing, Perle Systems. She continues, ”Our users can be confident that our full line of serial and parallel cards will continue to operate on Microsoft’s latest operating systems. This certification and early adoption to a new standard demonstrates Perle’s commitment to customers for long term investment protection and support.”

Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Certification of products is granted after passing a series of rigorous testing. Once a product is certified the company earns the right to use the highly respected Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 logo. The authorized use of this logo is proof that a product or solution has met the stringent criteria set out by Microsoft indicating reliability and technical excellence.

Perle’s Serial and Parallel Card lines enable you to easily add RS232, RS422, RS485 serial or parallel ports to your PC or server. Compatible with PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express bus slots, Perle cards are the only products that support all major operating systems including Windows, Vista, Linux, Solaris, SPARC as well as SCO.

SSRS 2008 Hosting :: SQL Server Reporting Services on Windows Server 2008 R2

In the tradition of the entertainment awards season, we want to thank Microsoft for taking IIS out of the equation with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. That made installation and configuration of Reporting Services much simpler. For those who began working with Reporting Services 2008, this is the first version with a dedicated web server. The main advantage is simplified configuration without worries about the impact on IIS and the web applications that depend upon it.

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, however, does depend upon IIS to manage and share reports. This works very well with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.x. If you need to install the 2005 version of Reporting Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 you will need to pay special attention to the IIS installation. This version of Reporting Services is not fully compatible with IIS 7.5, which is provided with the operating system.

We recently needed to get Reporting Service 2005 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and quickly ran into my first issue. No matter how hard we tried, we could not get the Reporting Services to show up as a selection during setup. After doing some research, we found that the IIS 6 components of IIS 7.5 are required for Reporting Services. Most of the blogs and articles simply indicated that adding IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility would fix that. However, the problem still existed.

The most common services and features are automatically included when you install the IIS 7.5 role on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It turns out there are a few more features that Reporting Services 2005 requires. The first one we have already mentioned: IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility. When you select this feature, make sure that all of the sub-features are selected.

Moving up to the Common HTTP Features section, you will notice that not all of the sub-features are selected. The HTTP Redirection and WebDAV Publishing are not selected for installation. HTTP Redirection is required so make sure to install it. The WebDAV Publishing feature is not required by Reporting Services 2005.

In the Application Development section, select the ASP.NET option.

The Windows Authentication option is a required security feature. Check Windows Authentication under the Security section.

If a dialog appears to tell you that other features are required as you make these selections, click OK to install those features.

After installing the new role features is complete, go to the Services control panel and confirm that the World Wide Web Publishing Service is set to start automatically, and is running.

Now you can run the SQL Server 2005 setup and install Reporting Services. When installing Reporting Services, go ahead and select the configuration option for standalone or SharePoint integration. Setup will walk you through the configuration process and you are now ready to go.

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification awarded to Perle Systems TruePort Software

NASHVILLE, TN—October 2, 2009— Perle Systems, the global developer and manufacturer of serial to Ethernet connectivity solutions announces Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification for their TruePort software. Perle is the first Serial Terminal Server manufacturer to receive digitally signed 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification for a COM port re-director utility. All drivers can be downloaded from Perle’s website.

“The TruePort utility from Perle provides true remote serial ports over an Ethernet LAN. It makes remote ports appear as if they are directly connected COM or TTY ports to an application,” comments Julie McDaniel, Vice President Marketing, Perle Systems. She continues, “With the addition of the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 certification, TruePort offers the most comprehensive set of operating drivers for a COM port re-director utility in the industry.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Certification of products is granted after passing a series of rigorous testing. Once a product is certified the company earns the right to use the highly respected Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 logo. The authorized use of this logo is proof that a product or solution has met the stringent criteria set out by Microsoft indicating reliability and technical excellence.

Perle’s TruePort is a COM port re-director driver utility that is installed on the application server. All COM port directed data sent by the application is re-directed by TruePort across the IP/Ethernet network to remote Perle Terminal Servers or I/O Device Servers which have targeted serial devices connected to them. Data and serial port signaling is transparently communicated between the application and remote device.

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