After doing several installations of Server 2012 on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers I became convinced that I should migrate the entire internal serverpark to 2012. I ran into several issues (which I will post later on) but most annoyingly of all is ForeFront 2010 on the servers. Note: Microsoftsoft has, since creation […]
Posts with the Server 2008 tag
Backup Exchange 2010 SP1 on Windows 2008 R2 with Windows Backup
First install the Windows Server Backup Features using the Server Manager. Select both the Windows Server Backup and Command-line Tools. Now locate the “Microsoft Exchange Server Extension for Windows Server Backup” service and set the service to automatic and start it. Now we are ready to begin the backup process from the Windows Server Backup tool. From Start […]
DNSSEC on Windows 2008 R2
Beefing up DNS with DNSSEC is a very hot topic in the Netherlands. Our goverment has decided that all goverment domains must be secured per default and the Netherlands itself has the highest implementationrate of DNSSEC domains in the world, which is no small feat as the Dutch .NL extension is one of the most […]
Beefing up your security
In light with adding as many security layers as possible to various environments I am responsible for I have come acros several interesting (Knowledge Base) articles, one of the foremost is this link http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/10-crazy-it-security-tricks-actually-work-196864 which details 10 steps on improving security in large and small networks. Although I find honeypots and tarpits a bit overkill for […]
Achieved 070-647 MCITP Enterprise Administrator
Today I achieved 070-647, it was a decently hard exam as to be expected ofcourse for the level of expertise required to pass and know all the items questioned within it. Focus will now shift from 2008 basis to my Messaging Specialism, which I will be upgrading from MCSA:M with an additional 2007 MCTS in […]
Debugging Scheduled tasks “Last Result 0XE0434F4D”
Ran into a problem today with using a scheduled task which was not executing properly after changes being made to it’s batchjob. Ofcourse the Windows Task Scheduler doesn’t give a very good description on the error message so I found a nice article that uses the following code: @echo off echo %date% %time% Start of […]
Completed 70-643
Passed 70-643 on Monday. Exam was relatively straight forward with some interesting questions and a good mix up of the subjects tested. Ran into very little Streaming Media server questions but I never really use that so that turned out okay. They now added a little questionaire in the start where they ask for your […]