Tag: R2

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”.

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.

File Server Resource Manager in Windows 2003 R2

The file server resource manager allows us a series of improvements in a file server. We can enable quotas at the directory level and if we are interested, By means of some directives we can filter which types of files are not going to be saved on the server by extension. And we can generate reports to show us the correct or incorrect use by users. It is necessary to update our Windows beforehand 2003 to Windows 2003 R2 – HERE.

Upgrade to Microsoft Windows 2003 R2

This procedure explains how to update a Windows environment 2003 to Windows 2003 R2. If it were a Windows 2003 No roles in the active directory could be upgraded seamlessly, it just puts the Windows CD2 in 2003 R2 and install with the wizard. But things change if you have a role in the active directory or if you, we directly want to migrate our domain to an R2 version of 2003.