Category: Microsoft

Configuring Symantec Backup Exec granular backup 12.5 on an Exchange Server 2007

Well, In this document we see a somewhat fussy topic that sometimes gets annoying, since you have to be careful with all the configuration steps so that it does not fail. In the document we will see how to configure our Symantec Backup Exec backup server 12.5 so you can back up every mailbox in our Microsoft Exchange organization at the email level 2007, in case of loss of mail, Be able to individually retrieve each email, or at a general level a mailbox or the entire private/public mail database.

Free and interesting utilities for Citrix environments

In this document we see a series of quite interesting utilities, especially for Citrix environments, although there are some for Microsoft or VMware environments, They are all taken from the http website://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar, We can download all of them in the pack called: CtxAdmTools. With them we will be able to list, export, Import and make bulk modifications in our Citrix communities, it is always quite interesting to be able to export something in case the DB gets corrupted, ¿No?

USMT Application (User State Migration Tool)

This application will help us to migrate user profiles, either from one computer to another or to migrate the machine from a Microsoft Windows XP operating system to Microsoft Windows Vista, or directly if we are going to migrate from a Workgroup to a domain, or from one domain to another. All the information will migrate to us, User profile settings and data, are certified or are files encrypted by him (EFS), as well as ACLs (Access Control List) of the files… We can also do this using variables or XML configuration files.

How to Migrate a Print Server to Windows Server 2008

Today, In this document, we'll look at how to migrate a print server from a Windows 2003 to a Windows Server 2008 or directly between Windows servers 2008. It's pretty simple, since the new printer server will allow us to export configurations and import them into the new server, carrying drivers if they are compatible and sharing print queues, it will configure the destination server as the source server was.

Installing Windows Server Functions and Features 2008 Command Line

In this document, describes what parameters we can use with the Windows Server ServerManagerCmd command 2008 to add, Remove or view functions or features. Since it will always be more comfortable to use the command line to install some functions or features, or directly generate a response file with the parameters we need in case we are always mounting the same type of servers. All thanks to ServerManagerCmd.exe.

Migrating a File Server Between Any Windows Server Version

Very good, In this brief document we will see how to migrate a file server in the simplest way between any version of Microsoft Windows Server (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 o Windows Server 2008). It's just cool and fast, that will allow us a hot migration. In this document we saw how with the Microsoft FSMT utility (File Server Migration Toolkit) could help us with a file server migration (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=961), but if what we want is to avoid installing software, The following will be interesting.

Setting up Microsoft Exchange 2007 with SCC (Single Copy Cluster) on Windows Server 2008

In this document, we will see how to set up a high availability cluster for our Microsoft Exchange mail server 2007 Server with the Microsoft Windows Server operating system 2008, in this case we will set up a cluster system called SCC (Single Copy Cluster o Clúster de Copia Única). In this previous document the rest of the possibilities that we would have are described, we may be more interested in one system than another (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=2362). As discussed above, SCC is the cluster that we can know from previous editions of Microsoft Exchange, is a shared storage failover cluster system, This is, we will have several nodes with the 'Mailbox function' one of them being active and the rest passive. Storage must be shared, Databases must be in an array or remote storage system, iSCSI, fibre... When the active node fails, One of the nodes in a passive state […]

Different types of Microsoft Exchange high availability 2007 (CCR, SCC, CSF & SCR)

Well, After a long time out, with a lot of work, I had time to look at myself and wrestle with the different types of high availability that Microsoft Exchange gives us 2007 to date. Unlike Microsoft Exchange 2003, This version, brings more possibilities to have a high availability of our mail server, having different methods, some cheaper than others and more or less complex. In principle, we have: CCR (Cluster Continuous Replication o Replicación Continua en Clúster) SCC (Single Copy Cluster o Clúster de Copia Única) CSF (Local Continuous Replication o Replicación Continua Local) SCR (Standby Continuous Replication o Replicación Continua en Espera)

Automated installation of Exchange prerequisites 2007 on Windows Server 2008

In this document, explains how to automate the installation of one or more Exchange servers 2007, basically the requirements of the installation. In this Technet article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354.aspx shows how to create scripts to install Exchange prerequisites 2007 and Windows Server 2008 to install the Exchange feature you're interested in 2007 via command line. With this website you can generate some response files (XML) to install whatever you need.

Upgrade the Windows Server Edition 2008

It's pretty simple, but necessary on certain occasions, When we should update our server edition, be Windows Server 2008 Standard a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise or Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, or Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. Usually why we have expanded the RAM and our operating system does not support so much, or why we need to install a feature or function that is not in the current edition of our server.