Windows Server

If you’re like me you’ve been interested in the possibility of the Windows Home Server sitting in your house and you know, servin’ stuff, since it was first mentioned on this site awhile back. Debra Shinder at WXPNews has some great information about the features and possibilities in her recent WXPNewsletter. The Windows Home Server also …

The helpdesk phone had been ringing incessantly all day.  Many people throughout the AD forest were unable to login to their respective domains.  It seems that accounts throughout the forest had somehow been deleted.  John, tired from having been up all night watching “White and Nerdy“, was called in to help identify what was going on.  Fortunately he had recently enabled auditing for account deletions due to a recent problem that he had.  After some serious filtering he was able to find the following event in the Security event log:

Management packs are the life-blood of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and are what differentiate it from other management products. MOM uses management packs to put rules, reports, tasks, and views together and can be limited in scope to a specific application or service, such as Active Directory. Microsoft product teams create the management packs for the applications they develop, ensuring that MOM reflects the teams’ deep product knowledge. Furthermore, management packs can be customized to fit your IT environment. You then have rules that monitor and manage the product based on your particular server and application environment.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, the next evolution of Live Communications Server, delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most—like Microsoft Outlook. Without expensive infrastructure and network upgrades, your organization can deliver these benefits on an extensible VoIP foundation. At the same time, your IT department can deliver these enhanced capabilities and provide operational control alongside your existing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory infrastructure.Office Communications Server tech center

Build your business on a solid foundation The next generation of the Windows Server operating system helps organizations maximize control over their server infrastructure with new management and configuration tools, task automation, and enhanced diagnostics. Security and reliability are also improved with hardened services and policy-based network access protection. Register to be notified when the Windows Server, code name “Longhorn,” Beta is available and to get beta updates in your TechNet Flash