Category: Windows 2003

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?

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.

Creating an iSCSI Target on Windows Unified Data Storage Server

In this document, we'll see how we can create an iSCSI Target with our Windows operating system, No third-party apps, we can create or assign virtual disks to the iSCSI Target to later use them in shared storage, To set up a cluster… What we will need is a compatible Operating System, or a Windows Unified Data Storage Server, It's an OS. OEM, This is, that are already pre-installed with the equipment when we purchase it from our manufacturer. If we have a Windows Server 2003 o Windows Server 2008, we should update it to these editions, I will comment on this in another document, to be able to have OEM operating systems on virtual machines (For example).

Renaming a Windows Server Domain Controller 2008

In this document, we will discuss the proper steps for renaming a Microsoft Windows Server-based domain controller 2008, I know it's something unusual, but we will have to take it into account for when it is time, since there are several reasons that come to mind ;). We can run this wizard through GUI or via command line, I will choose this last option since it will be valid for Windows Server servers 2008 Core. We will take into account that if the server has the role of Certificate Authority or Certificate Authority (AC) We will not be able to change the name.

Using AdRestore to recover Tombstone items

What is a Tombstone? Well, when we delete an object in the Active Directory it is not deleted directly, if not, the attribute 'isDeleted' is checked’ as 'True’ and is hidden from the normal view of AD consoles in addition to moving to the 'Deleted Objets' container. Eye, almost all but the most important attributes like GUID and SID are deleted. These objects remain in the Active Directory as Tombstone's until after 90 days, once this time has elapsed they are eliminated by the 'Garbage collector'. What is the Garbage Collector? It is a process that runs the Active Directory by default every 12 hours, although this parameter is modifiable in the attribute 'garbageCollPeriod'’ in the configuration object (NTDS). This, apart from removing the Tombstone's, also defragments the Active Directory. All of this comes in handy when using the Sysinternals AdRestore tool, since this utility allows us to […]

Use of MADTD – Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer or MADTD is a great program, that will help us to get Visio format schemes on the topology of our Active Directory. It will take us a vsd drawing with the data from: Domains, Ous, Sites, Exchange, Applications, Servers… To do this,, we download the application from the Microsoft website (HTTP://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-86266174276).

Installation, Configuring and Managing Windows Server Update Services 3.0

This document describes in detail the process of installing the Microsoft Update Server for Microsoft products, We will see the installation options that we have and then we will see how to distribute these updates in the positions that interest us. The main function of the WSUS 3.0 is to be the update server for all Microsoft products, he would be responsible for downloading the updates to distribute them through our Windows-based operating systems or to our SQL Server products, Exchange Server, Office… Best of all, it's a free product, Much less!

Installing Windows Multilingual

If we have a server installed or are going to install it with the Windows version MULTILINGUAL, by default it will install it in English, This procedure explains how to install the “Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack ” on the server so that our OS. be it in the language we are interested in (In my case to Spanish). The steps are very simple, first we will install it as normal with the English CDs and then, when you have already installed Windows and updated, we can install the package that will translate it for us.