Defragment or compact the Active Directory database in Windows 2003

In this document, we will learn how to compact and defragment the Active Directory database. This process must be carried out on each of the domain controllers that we have. With this we will achieve a higher performance, that the database takes up less space. Before starting with this wizard, it is advisable to make a backup of Active Directory. This document shows how to do this on a Microsoft Windows server 2003.

Using the Security Setup Wizard in Windows 2003

El SP1 de Microsoft Windows 2003 It brings a new tool that will help us when securing and configuring our server in security issues. It is a wizard that helps us secure our server by blocking certain parts of the registry, disabling unnecessary services, removing MS applications that are not used and of course it would enable Microsoft's firewall and close ports that are not needed.

Setting up a VPN or Virtual Private Network on Windows using PPTP protocol

With this, What we will achieve is, from a physically separate location to our company's LAN, house… connect to it and see all the computers on the network. It is a free connection that we will use once we are already connected to the Internet. You need to have these ports open and mapped against the routing server (VPN), Port 47 GRE (failing that, TCP) and the 1723 TCP.

Installing and Using VMware Virtual Machine Importer 2

VMware VM Importer, allows us to convert virtual machines from: VMware Workstation or VMware Player or VMware Server or VMware GSX Server or Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server or Symantec Ghost or Symantec LiveState images in VMware ESX or VMware Workstation or VMware Player or VMware Server or GSX Server format. To do this,, we will need to download and install the VM Importer 2 from the www.vmware.com website.

Configuring Virtual Networks – Virtual Switches in VMware VirtualCenter

This document explains how to configure the network of an ESX server 3.5, via a virtual switch, which is to create virtual networks, to connect virtual machines to each other, or that they are routed, or for HA use or administration . It is assumed that a host supports at most 4 NICs, In my case it will be a server with two network connections. The ideal is to have everything redundant, in case one interface goes down, the other has the same connections, or else, to split traffic and have VM traffic go through a NIC (x example). We have three types of connections to set up: