What's new in Terminal Services on Windows 2008

TS – Terminal Services is Microsoft's technology that provides us with remote access to applications installed on a server from computers on the local network or from the Internet. Of course, this would not be the right way to access a server to manage it, simply for users to connect to server desktops or applications, never to administer it, That's what it's for to check the “Enable Remote Desktop on this server” in “Control Panel” > “System”.

Microsoft Windows Server Installation and Configuration 2008 Hyper-V

At last, This document shows how we can use one of the latest new features that Microsoft has released in its new Windows OS 2008. Formerly called Viridian, and better known as Windows Server Virtualization, is Microsoft's hypervisor, the one that allows virtualizations of virtual machines on an x64-bit physical machine. This will allow us to create a virtual environment in our organization and have virtual machines on physical servers, as many as the physical servers support or licenses we have.

Defragment or compact the Active Directory database in Windows 2008

In this document, we will learn how to compact and defragment the Active Directory database. This process must be carried out on each of the domain controllers that we have. With this we will achieve a higher performance, that the database takes up less space. Before starting with this wizard, it is advisable to make a backup of Active Directory. This document shows how to do this on a Microsoft Windows server 2008.

How to migrate printers on client PCs

En este procedimiento se explica cómo actualizar las impresoras clientes cuando se migran de servidor. Si por ejemplo migramos todas las impresoras de un servidor a otro, habría que ir PC a PC cambiandoles el PATH de la impresora origen, por ejemplo de servidorORIGENimpresora1 a servidorDESTINOimpresora1. Pues se crearía un script y lo pondría en el inicio de los PC’s o en la SYSVOL, o de la forma que interese, pero lo deberían de ejecutar los PC’s clientes de la forma que sea.

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: