Category: Microsoft

New in Windows 2008 R2: Managed Service Account

One of the new features brought by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is the 'Managed Service Accounts', which are user accounts that we may assign to our services. It is well known that in our Active Directory we have assigned password expiration policies and we always have a service that does not start with a local system account or SYSTEM, with more privileges. To avoid this hassle of managing accounts with expiring passwords, or that they are vulnerable since the password is always the same and can allow someone to take advantage of that, Microsoft has released this new feature, Of course, to be able to use it, our Active Directory has to be in “Windows Server 2008 R2”.

Enabling the Recycle Bin in Windows Active Directory 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 brings an improvement at the Active Directory level, Finally it will let us recover a deleted element without losing its settings, has introduced the Recycle Bin or 'Recycle Bin Feature' feature. In this document, We'll see how to enable it, since by default it is not enabled or activated if we come from an Active Directory prior to Windows 2008 R2.

Exchange Migration 2003 to Exchange 2010

In this document, we'll look at the steps to take when migrating a Microsoft Exchange Server organization 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, we will note that in this document we will migrate an Exchange server 2003 with mailboxes, Public Folders, policies and OWA to an Exchange server 2010 With all the roles (Transport Hub, Client Access, Mailbox and Exchange Management Tools). If we want to get an Exchange organization 2010 With the separate functions we can use the document as a guide, since each migration is completely different from the rest.

Software requirements for Exchange Server 2010

This document shows what the requirements are to be able to install Microsoft Exchange 2010 in our organization, whether it is a new installation or for the migration of our environment to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Only the requirements are shown at the operating system and software level, in addition to the procedure for the installation of them. Another document will show what the requirements are at the Active Directory level and how to proceed.

Using Windows AIK for Windows Deployments 7 and Windows 2008 R2

We can use Windows AIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) to easily and quickly display Windows images 7 and Windows 2008 R2. With this, We will be able to create an image from a team that we have prepared for our organization and apply it to all the teams (being able to put drivers, Applications, Configurations…). This document will look at the use of response files to prevent interaction during the installation of the operating system and thus perform unattended installations, creating and using a Windows PE CD for booting the pre-installation environment and network imaging deployment, as well as the use of scripts to avoid our intervention as much as possible.

Deploying corporate Outlook signatures automatically

An atypical document, but super interesting if we find ourselves in this case. I had the need to put a corporate fund and a corporate signature for my users' email, it doesn't matter Outlook 2003 than with Outlook 2007 or directly with OWA; my servers are Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. I needed a tool that would integrate with Active Directory and that could automatically put a signature on each user with their name, Surnames, charge, email… without me manually having to do anything, that takes it all from the Active Directory data. And then deploy it automatically with a GPO directive and vúalá! All users with corporate email.