Windows Servers

Customising Windows Server 2008 server core
A few months back, I wrote a post with a few commands to get started with server core on Windows Server 2008. Since then, I’ve had some fun tweaking server core installations (including some cheekiness installing third party web servers ...

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) has been released to the ...
A few days ago we released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to the web. RSAT is the collection of Windows Server 2008 management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their ...

How to view and transfer FSMO roles in Windows Server 2003
PDC Emulator: The PDC emulator is a domain controller that advertises itself as the primary domain controller (PDC) to workstations, member servers, and domain controllers that are running earlier versions of Windows. ...

It Service Providers
Due to recent expansion we have upgraded to three servers one running Windows Server 2003 Standard edition, the other running a Linux SME (small medium enterprise) server, and the third is a Linux Internet gateway. The Windows server ...

Advanced WMI Performance Monitor ZenPack for Zenoss Core
I finally got around to creating a ZenPack for Zenoss Core to monitor several key performance counters from Windows servers such as CPU utilization and queue, memory paging and usage, disk IOPS and queue length, terminal sessions and ...

Volume Shadow Services (VSS) on WHS
Windows Home Server uses Volume Shadow Services (VSS) to support Previous Version functionality for files stored in Shared Folders on the home server. The Home Server normally triggers a snapshot every 12 hours, enabling users to access ...

Download Free Windows Vista SP1 Remote Administration Tools
Many IT professionals manage their servers from their own desktops. RSAT enables IT professionals to use the updated Windows Server 2008 management tools to manage their servers remotely from their own PCs. ...

Configuring the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Gateway (Part 1)
Thomas Shinder: Microsoft security administrators have always been a bit wary of publishing Terminal Servers to the Internet. And for good reason – there was no ability to pre-authenticate connections or use policy to determine which ...

How an Advanced Print Management and Spooling Solution Improves ...
In this case study, we will explore why a company needs a Print Management and Advanced Print Spooling solution like OM Plus to manage enterprise printing in their Windows Server Environment. The Windows Spooling System (WSS) is ...

Unix to Linux migration slow steady trend
In contrast, Windows-based servers will often run through virtualization multiple applications, since it is run multiple applications, and run only a single application of Linux compared to the probability of its problems on some ...