Category: Windows 2008

Installing and configuring Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

If what we are looking for is a product that allows us to carry out internal searches in our network, mainly about files and web addresses and what we are interested in is that it is easy to use for users, via browser, intuitive, how they regularly search the internet, Search for documents in your own network… this free tool is offered to us by Microsoft, Call Search Server 2008. In this document we will explain how MSS is installed and configured to allow users to search wherever we configure.

Change DNS servers on the stations using a script

This is useful when we are performing a server migration, in the event that we are going to change the IP address DNS servers or the server DNS server, we must change its DNS servers in all positions. The posts may be configured with a dynamic IP address so the change is very simple and we will change it only on the DHCP server. But.. What happens if our posts have a fixed IP address? That we should change the 'Preferred DNS Server'’ and the 'Alternate DNS Server'’ or manually or with the help of a simple script that we can put in the login of the posts through a GPO.

Migrate Microsoft Windows Active Directory 2003 to Microsoft Windows 2008

This document will show you how to successfully migrate a Microsoft Windows environment 2000 o Microsoft Windows 2003 to Microsoft Windows 2008. Being the migration of Active Directory 2000 or 2003 a 2008. Active Directory will be migrated to this new version to new domain controllers. Old domain controllers will disappear. So you'll need a new server to install Windows 2008, Make it a domain controller, pass the roles to it and then unpromote the old domain controllers. Finally, the functional level of the domain and the forest will be raised to 'Windows 2008'. The correct steps to follow will be: