Just a quick post on how to enter the product key using the exchange management shell: set-exchangeserver -Identity servername -ProductKey XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX
XP SP2 and Vista RTM & Win2k support ending
On July 13th 2010 Microsoft will no longer provide product support or provide security hot fixes for the following products: Windows XP SP2 Vista RTM Windows 2000 If you are running XP SP2 or Vista RTM it may be the time to upgrade the wonderful Windows 7 operating system. If you are running Windows 2008 …
Active Directory 2008 R2 Design Guide
You can get this from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=88f0184c-8f03-4f0f-b3f9-5109255fb461 Overview This guidance provides general recommendations for the design, deployment and management of an Active Directory environment in a healthcare organization according to current best practices. The purpose of this guidance is to accelerate Active Directory design and deployment in a healthcare organization, and provide a framework for …
Internal launch of Active Directory
Here is a video showing the internal launch of the MS Active Directory domain, the first ever in the world. Fascinating stuff!!
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper A new white paper has been released which shows you how to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c9d141cf-c839-4728-af52-928f61bebdca Overview Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) provides continuous data protection for virtual machines hosted on servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This protection includes …
FSMO Role Holders
One thing that every support person who manages and supports active directory should know is the FSMO role holders, or operational masters as they are sometimes called, what they do and the effects of them being offline due to any kind of disaster/failure. These role holders are possibly one of the most important servers in …
Microsoft Certified Master
Have you ever heard of the Microsoft Certified Master programme? It is 3 weeks of intensive training at the Microsoft campus in Redmond which will set you back $25,000. However students that attend say it is worth every single penny. It is probably the most intensive IT training that currently exists. There are 5 tracks: …
My study resources
My study resources for the next 12 months 🙂
CCIE study schedule
One thing which always motivates me is reading other people’s success stories. I have quite a few CCIE’s on my twitter friends list because it always amazes me of the amount of time and effort that goes into achieving this certification. I will never do it my self as I have never logged onto a …
Microsoft have given me £950,000!!
I feel really lucky at the moment!!! Microsoft are awarding me £950k!! How lucky am i!! Microsoft Promotion Award Team Prof. Minerva McGonagall Stamford New Road, Altrincham Cheshire WA14 1EP London. United Kingdom. MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION. It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read …