Today I took 70-646, Windows Server 2008: Server Administrator and PASSED! I am now an Microsoft Certified IT Professional, Server Administrator. I liked this last test in the bunch. Instead of just 50 multiple choice questions, it was 22, and…
Recently, I had a Windows 2008 R2 server, running Backup Exec, that was constantly failing during snapshot processing backing up the system state. The backups would show the following error: AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System$State". Advanced Open File Option used:…
AdminSDHolder is a container inside active directory that maintains a master list of permissions for objects that are members of privileged groups in active directory. Below are some of the groups: Administrators Domain Admins Enterprise Admins Schema Admins Domain Controllers…
I've been working on an exchange migration recently, and was at the point that I needed to replicate the public folders to the new 2010 server from 2007. This particular Exchange Server had only a few public folders, so I…
Microsoft released their iSCSI target software earlier this month for Windows Server 2008 R2. This used to be only for windows 2008 Storage Server. This is good news for those who wish to have a Windows 2008 Server host storage…
With Windows Server 2008, there is the option to promote a member server to a RDOC, or Read Only Domain Controller. Just as the name suggests, it is a domain controller that is non-writable; read-only copy. The purpose of a…
Today I passed Microsoft test 70-640: Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring. This test covers quite a large spectrum of information, including: DNS Multi-Site Domains (Sites and Services) Group Policies Auditing Federation Services Rights Management Services Cert Services Windows Backup Authorative…