Remote Server Administration Tools (for Server 2008)
I’m pleasure to announce that now it’s possible to download Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) that permit to administering roles in Windows Server 2008 trough PC with Windows Vista SP1 32 or 64 bit.
Following the roles that is possible to administering in Server 2008:
Role:
- Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tools
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
- DHCP Server Service Tools
- DNS Server Service Tools
- Shared Folders Tools
- Network Policy and Access Services Tools
- Terminal Services Tools
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools
Feature:
- BitLocker Drive Encryption Tools
- Failover Clustering Tools
- Group Policy Management Tools
- Network Load Balancing Tools
- SMTP Server Tools
- Storage Manager for SANs Tools
- Windows System Resource Manager Tools
>> With these tools is possible to administer Windows server 2003 roles too, how to:
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
- Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tools
- DHCP Server Tools
- DNS Server Tools
- Group Policy Management Tools
- Network Load Balancing Tools
- Terminal Services Tools
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools
These tools are useful in particular when you need to administer Server Core. There is only a little problem because they use WMI on the remote machine and this requires the call-back on RPC towards administration PC. The consequence is that if you use a firewall between Administration PC and Server you need to open more TCP port to do this. Microsoft suggest to use Terminal Server connection or VPN access to reduce open port on firewall,
You can download RSAT from the following links:
In the same time with RSAT has been released also Hyper-V Manager for Windows Vista SP1. This MMC permit to administer remotely virtual server based on Hyper-V from Windows Vista with SP1 installed.
You can download Hyper-V Manager for Windows Vista SP1 from the following links:
Planning and deploy GPO in Windows Server 2008
Hi all, Microsoft have published a new guide that provides the information needed to successfully plan and deploy Group Policy using Windows Server 2008 and the Group Policy Management Console.
Hyper-V Release Candidate update for Windows Server 2008
Update March 19, 2008
This article on Microsoft site describes the Hyper-V Release Candidate update for Windows Server 2008.
The Hyper-V Release Candidate update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements in security, in stability, in performance, in user experience, in forward compatibility of virtual machine configurations, and in the programming model. All users of the Hyper-V role are encouraged to apply this update.
Please read the Article ID: 949219 on Microsoft TechNet site, you can find links for download
the update for x32 and x64 platform more than release notes
Migration from MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, or Microsoft Access to Microsoft SQL Server
On Microsoft site it’s possible to find the following white papers:
q Guide to Migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2005 (114 pages)
q Guide to Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005 (161 pages)
q Guide to Migrating from Sybase ASE to SQL Server 2005 (97 pages)
q Guide to Migrating from Microsoft Access to SQL Server 2005 (52 pages)
It’s possible to download all documentations here…
Network Shell (Netsh) Technical Reference
Network shell (netsh) is a command-line utility that allows you to configure and display the status of various network communications server roles and components after they are installed on computers running Windows Server® 2008.
Some client technologies, such as Network Access Protection (NAP) client, also provide netsh commands that allow you to configure client computers running Windows Vista®.
In most cases, netsh commands provide the same functionality that is available when using the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for each server role or component. In addition, there are netsh commands for network functionality, such as for IPv6, network bridge, and remote procedure call (RPC), that are not available in the user interface as an MMC snap-in.
You can use netsh commands to configure and display the status of network components on the local computer and on remote computers.
In addition, netsh commands can be run manually by typing commands at the netsh prompt and they can be run in batch files and scripts.
Netsh commands are organized in a hierarchy of contexts. Each network technology with netsh command functionality has its own context. For example, the netsh context for remote access service is ras.
Download Technical reference Chm Here...
Release Notes for this Release of Hyper-V
Hi all, if you want to test Hyper-V environment I suggest to go at appropriate page on Microsoft Web Page that explain all information that's important to know. Informations published are about:
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Hardware requirements
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Vendor-tested hardware
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Configuration requirements
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Usage considerations
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Known Issues about Hypervisor, Setup and Virtual Machine Connection
Best Practices for Integrating Microsoft® SoftGrid® Application Virtualization with Terminal Services and Citrix® Presentation Server®
There are a document that explain how to integrate these two platform. I woul to thanks the Microsoft SoftGrid Team Blog that have published this information HERE....
If you want to know how to publish SoftGrid enabled application in Citrix MetaFrame you can read Microsoft KB HERE...