Active Directory

Its IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton walks us through the necessary steps and considerations you should think about when upgrading from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012. Tune in as he lays out the necessary hardware and disk requirements, which Windows Clients and Servers are…

Lex Thomas welcomes Rabih Andari and George Bryan from the Microsoft Consulting Services team as they discuss a tool they developed that helps migrate large organizations to Office 365. Tune in as they share with us an interesting case study on how this tool helped automate the process in which they…

At [04:50] Symon Perriman meets with Joseph Chan, a Principal PM Manager on the System Center team, to talk about System Center Advisor and how it now integrates with System Center 2012. Joseph first gives an introduction to Advisor and how people can start using this free cloud service.…

Tommy Patterson welcomes Principal Program Manager, Mark Lawrence to the show as they discuss how Microsoft IT used Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control to help secure and improve access management to key infrastructure and line-of business applications to users and business groups within the…

Matt Hester talks with Patrick Hevesi about Branch Office. They discuss the five main scenarios all branch offices face, and how Microsoft’s Branch Office offerings address these challenges.  Windows Server Virtualizaion, Componentization and Security are all discussed.   …

Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 is now available for download.  This popular Windows Vista deployment tool offers IT professionals a quick way to assess their existing computers’ readiness for Windows Vista in terms of hardware and device compatibility.  The new version provides…

Blain Barton continues his conversation on Group Policy, discussing how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases administrators’ control over managing Group Policy objects.  He speaks with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Winni Verhoef, a Senior Product Manager focused…

This geekSpeak, hosted by Microsoft Developer Evangelists Glen Gordon and G. Andrew Duthie, features Ron Rohlfs, practice area lead with InterKnowlogy. Ron spends a lot of time architecting Sharepoint solutions for customers. In this geekSpeak, Ron shares some insight into one approach…

Windows PowerShell is included as part of Windows Server 2008. Join Dmitry Sotnikov from Quest Software and Scott Ottaway from Microsoft as they demonstrate the use of Windows PowerShell to manage new features in Server 2008 including new Active Directory features and Read-Only Domain Controllers.…

This screencast shows in detail the actions performed by the script in charge of setting up the structure needed to support LitwareHR's application. This is what we call "Datacenter Provisioning" and creates databases in SQL server, users and roles structures in the ADAM and websites in…