Yearly Archives: 2010
Centrally setup Windows XP machines to use the new 2008 Group Policy Preferences
With the new 2008 Group Policy Preferences there are some great new tweak tools to manage without the need for login scripts. Windows XP machines are not compatible with these new GPOs without first installing an update for Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions (CSE). This update is downloadable from Microsoft as an executable via KB943729. Unfortunately Microsoft didn’t package this in a .MSI file so it can’t be deployed through the entire organization via a GP Software Distribution rule. If you have WSUS in place then it can be deployed there, but if not you’ll need to go back to good ol’ login/startup scripts to get this pushed out to all your machines. First some credit to a post over at serverfault.com by Evan Anderson who outlined the strategy. Continue reading →
Public folders and upgrading to Exchange 2010
We recently had some problems with Public folder synchronization during an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration. Public folders were not syncing up to the new Exchange 2010 server with the following error message in the logs:
Event ID: 1020, Source: MSExchange Store Driver. The store driver couldn’t deliver the public folder replication message “Status Request (PublicFolderDatabase@yourdomain.com)” because the following error occurred: The Active Directory user wasn’t found.
Virtualization Now!
Ten Reasons You Should Already Be Using Virtualization For Your Server Environment
According to Intel:
Virtualization technology is possibly the single most important issue in IT and has started a top to bottom overhaul of the computing industry
Virtualization is a relatively new technology, but it is not as new as one might think. VMware, one of the pioneers of virtualization, has been creating and selling virtualization software for over 10 years now. All 100 of the Fortune 100 companies are currently using virtualization, specifically VMware’s offerings. Once the only player, VMware now has serious competition from Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle (who recently acquired Sun Microsystems), RedHat, and Novell.