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Running, Filtering and Saving Scans in Best Practise Analyzer

Published Sat, Sep 25 2010 13:39 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Who knows the Best Practise Analyzer for Exchange (ExBPA) is already familiar exporting scan results to other file formats to save or achive. The Best Practise Analyzer (BPA) coming with Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Roles doesn’t have this opportunity...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Services, ISA Server, Tools, Active Directory, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, BPA, DNS, DFS, Security

Microsoft Communication Server is now Lync Server 2010

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 15:03 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The upcoming new Communication Server 14 (CS14) will be named Lync Server 2010 based on latest information. For planning support, Microsoft release the Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool Release Candidate (RC) What’s New in the Planning Tool for...

Filed under: General, Tools, OCS, Conferencing

DLL-Preloading remote attack vector

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 10:42 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Microsoft released Security Advisory 2269637 notifying customers of a remote attack vector to a class of vulnerabilities affecting applications that load DLL’s in an insecure manner. The root cause of this issue has been understood by developers for some...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Windows Client

ADMT 3.2 Installation Issues

Published Sat, Jul 10 2010 20:27 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Ned Pyle pointed out some installaiton issues you will run into when you install ADMT 3.2 Administrator should read his detailed article to prepare before you start installation. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/07/09/admt-3-2-common-installation...

Filed under: General, SQL, Windows Server, Tools, Migration, Active Directory

Forefront Identity Manager Script Box

Published Sun, May 30 2010 16:11 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The FIM Scriptbox is a collection of scripts that simplify certain tasks when working with FIM. More here .  

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Active Directory, Forefront

FRS to DFSR Migration Tool

Published Thu, May 27 2010 20:29 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Ned Pyle and Mike Stephens created a new tool related to their TechNet Whitepaper about FRS Migration to DFSR. FRS2DFSR is a utility that assists Windows admins in moving from the legacy File Replication Service (FRS) to the newer Distributed File System...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Tools, Migration, Active Directory, File Services

Active Directory Performance Analysis

Published Thu, May 13 2010 18:28 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Prior to Windows Server 2008, troubleshooting Active Directory performance issues often required the installation of Server Performance Advisor. Those who came to rely upon this tool will be happy to know its functionality has been built into Windows...

Filed under: General, Tools, Active Directory

Some new Best Practices Analyzer released

Published Mon, May 3 2010 14:00 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Update for Best Practices Analyzer for Active Directory Rights Management Services for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB981391) You can use Active Directory Rights Management Services Best Practices Analyzer to scan a server that is running the AD...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, System Center, WSUS, Tools, Active Directory, Network Services, File Services

Best Practices Analyzer for Hyper-V available now

Published Mon, May 3 2010 13:34 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

You can use Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer to scan a server that is running the Hyper-V role, and help identify configurations that do not comply with the best practices of Microsoft for this role. BPA scans the configuration of the physical computer...

Filed under: Hyper-V, SCVMM, Tools, Virtualization

New Release of TMG Best Practices Analyzer Tool

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 1:34 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Download TMGBPA here The tool support administrators to analyze TMG and all advanced features which came with TMG. ISABPA is also still supported on former solution ISA Server before TMG. The Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Best Practices Analyzer...

Filed under: TMG, ISA Server, Tools