This weeks training screencast: Network Access Protection can deny or limit your access to the network based upon the health of your system. Is there a virus checker installed? Is the firewall up? If not prepared to be restricted or automatically remediated!. In this episode we take our first look at the new Windows 2008 NAP features, specifically DHCP enforcement. A little shoddy, but hey it gets the message across I think.

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This weeks training screencast: Hyper-V is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. Virtual machines now communicate through a thin layer of software called the hypervisor, instead of sitting on top of a full operating systems, as with Virtual Server. Its pretty good, and we get some amazing results from our Dell £99 server, oh yeah and of course there is plenty of irrelevant banter.

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This weeks training screencast: Maintaining a set of standard base applications across your network makes your life so much easier. Whatever the deployment method, System Center, LanDesk or just plain old group policies one of the main things you will need to do is achieve a silent install or at least one that requires no user intervention. In this episode we talk about Windows Installer (MSI) packages and introduce Orca, a tool you can use to customise your installation.

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This week we turn our attention to  Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. in particular its software distribution features. After a gentle introduction to SCCM we attempt to deploy Quicktime player across the ITidiots network. Okay so we got a typo in the command line, but other than that I reckon we do a reasonable job of showing you the deployment mechanism and also troubleshooting techniques by viewing status messages and log files with SCCM Trace.

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This weeks training screencast: Previously we showed the Asus EEE PC, in pretty much an out of the box configuration running Linux. Now Nick, or more specifically his Dad, has got Windows XP running on it, and it continues to amaze us.  Despite what you might think it runs rather well, check it out......

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This weeks training screencast: This week we are back to Exchange 2007. We discuss the availability options across all the roles but not after a bit of a banter so be warned! Anyway when we get back to it we demonstrate SP1’s new mailbox role feature, continuous cluster replication a great way to maintain an offsite replica of your mailbox stores.

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This weeks training screencast: We continue to look at Windows Server 2008, this time at some of the new features found in Terminal Services. RemoteApp allows an application running on the terminal server to seamlessly integrate with the users desktop (a bit like Citrix). As well as that, we can now easily deploy the RemoteApp shortcuts to the desktop via an .rdp file, an msi file (for deployment via a group policy)  or users could simply click on the application from a webpage to start the execution. Just watch and all will become clear....

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This weeks training screencast: Previously we upgraded our Windows 2003 domain to Windows 2008 and now we add a Windows 2008 core server. Windows 2008 server core is basically a stripped down version of Windows Server 2008, no GUI, no tools, not even solitaire! Core servers can host a number of key services, e.g. DNS, Active Directory or DHCP and when adding these roles only the required files and services are added. Minimal footprint, minimal attack surface, and minimal patching. This 2008 product is looking good!

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This weeks training video screencast: In this episode we get to play with Nick’s new toy, the Asus Eee PC.  Its quite amazing really, for around £200 you get an ultraportable notebook with a  7  inch colour display, ethernet, Wireless LAN, stereo speakers, microphone, webcam, 512Mb of memory, 4GB solid state drive and a full suite of applications on a Linux platform. It can even run Windows XP too! What’s going on here? It just doesn’t make any sense! You couldn’t even buy an iPhone for this kind of money, or even a copy of Vista!

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This weeks training video screencast: Upgrading a server between Christmas and New Years was not the best idea in the world. Anyway we managed to get email up and running after a little bit of hastle, wear Christmas hats and pull a cracker. After that it was all a bit too much and we decided to have a part 3. Please note, this episode is largely devoid of technical content and enthusiasm!

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This weeks training video screencast is a light hearted (christmas episode) look into the world of small private business. If you work in the public sector and would like to see how a state of the server setup should look like then this week's episode is not for you. Nick recently replaced his companies entire server setup with a DELL £99 special and this week we see exactly what Nicky thinks would be the best way of migrating things forward. The entire episode was filmed on location in England. Sorry for the lack of external mic's this week.

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This weeks training screencast is using release candidate 0 of Windows Server 2008, we upgrade the ITidiots.com Active Directory domain to Windows 2008. Technically upgrading the domain is not so hard, there are just a few things you need to consider, for example the FSMO role holders, schema extensions, DNS and of course ensuring you have a rollback plan. The real challenge is ensuring there is no adverse impact your existing infrastructure, applications and services, and that we cannot help you with!

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This weeks video training screencast: The final part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam

The final part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam

In this episode we cover Automated System Recovery (ASR) and use the Windows Backup utility to schedule a backup of files and the registry. Also we cover Shadow Copies which allows users to revert to a previous version of their files.

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This weeks video training screencast: he fourth part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam

This episode covers Event Viewer, and remote server management using Computer Manager, Terminal Services in Remote Administration mode and a little bit of IIS. Also we cover some key perfotmance monitor counters.

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Windows Server 2008 is now in release candidate and the MCSE exams are already out. I guess we had better take a look to see what has changed. In this episode we demonstrate the new Windows 2008 user interface, administration tools, and chat about some of the new features. To be honest it is looking rather good!

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In this weeks video training screencast: Keeping your servers and clients up to date with the latest patches, and security updates can be a real pain, but unfortunately they are so important. WSUS 3.0 simplifies the management and deployment of updates throughout your network. It is free, simple to use, and provides some great reporting, implement it now!

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This weeks video training screencast: The third of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam

This episode covers managing access to resources including share and NTFS permissions. Also we look at managing a Windows Terminal Server.

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This weeks video training screencast: The second part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam

In this episode we cover creating users, computers and groups using Active Directory Users and Computers and then using scripting. We then tackle the subject of user profiles and demonstrate local and roaming profiles.

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This weeks video training screencast: The first part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam. This episode covers the ‘Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices’ section of the syllabus, including coverage of  Device Manager, Software RAID, Driver Signing and BOOT.INI.

As this is our first cramsession we would really welcome feedback on this one. 

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In this weeks video training screencast: We take a good hard look at the new Panasonic HDC-SD1 high definition camcorder. So what makes this so special, well lets start with the fact that almost nothing can edit the files! This new AVCHD format will allow you to record 40 mins of 1440x1080i on a 4gb SD card but how good is it as a camcorder and how do you edit with it? Nick shows us how this week using Pinnacle Studio 11 and Sony Vegas 7.0

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Back for the third installment of Exchange Server 2007. Previously we installed Exchange 2007, and configured it to send and receive Internet email. In this episode we introduce an Edge Transport server as a way of securing internet email and configure Edge Synchronization to ease the administration of the organization. Thats not it, next we  configure Local Continuous Replication and demonstrate failure and recovery.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: What with the World Cup and great weather we couldn't be bothered to get technical so we teach Shabih how to sell his first eBay item, a rather dubious digital camera.

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This weeks video training screencast: Hosting your own fully functioning and easy to maintain website is simple with Joomla the all encompassing content management system! Did you know that our website uses Joomla? Anyway, in this episode Nick demonstrates the latest beta version of Joomla 1.5, and shows you how to quickly set up a great looking website in around 30 minutes.

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This weeks video training screencast: Did you know that Windows Server comes with its own monitoring and analysis tool? It is pretty powerful too, you can even monitor all your servers from one location! Anyway, watch us monitor our server in realtime, record information to a log file for later analysis, and create an alert to record important information when the server is busy.

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This weeks video training screencast: Windows clustering provides ultimate fault tolerance, basically you can have two machines, called nodes, presenting a single ‘virtual’ server to the network, and this virtual server can run on any node. If one node dies, then the virtual server simply runs on the other. Testing for clustering usually involves expensive hardware but in this podcast we show you how you can set up a virtual cluster using 4 virtual machines, one domain controller, two nodes, and one VM running FreeBSD based openfiler for the shared iSCSI storage. Use this as the basis for building your Exchange or SQL clustering test lab.

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This weeks video training screencast takes an exciting look at what exactly RAID is. From this understanding Nicky then goes on to demonstrate the various forms of RAID using open source software for Network Attached Storage. You will need to understand this for those exams you are preparing for. All this is a build up to demonstrating some really clever clustering  technologies next week.

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This weeks training video screencast: Windows Server 2003 comes complete with its own routing and remote access service, funnily enough referred to as Routing and Remote Access Service, or RRAS. To be honest most organisations would probably make use of hardware solutions but RRAS can be used quite effectively for smaller organisations. In this episode we setup RRAS to receive incoming VPN connections and secure access by using a Remote Access Policy. Oh yeah, for anyone currently studying for their MCSE, RRAS and Policies form a large part of the networking MCSE exam.

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This weeks training video screencast: Have you ever installed Linux and wondered what to do next? Most Linux distributions ship with a full suite of great applications ready to use, but to make the ultimate desktop it is likely that you will need additional software such as video codecs, Skype and Azureus! To a new Linux user, installing additional software can be a little daunting. In this episode we show you how simple it is to download and install new applications, using APT (advanced packaging tool), Automatix and Synaptic Package Manager. We also take you through customising the visual theme of Ubuntu.

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This weeks training video screencast: SQL is everywhere nowadays. Sharepoint, Systems Management Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Windows Server Update Services all require a SQL server database. In this episode we have a look at the installation of Microsoft SQL 2000 and cover basic database recovery. Okay, SQL 2005 is out now, but you will find that most organisations are still making heavy use of SQL 2000. Also, the points covered in this podcast will also largely apply to any version of SQL, including mySQL. Watch us install SQL, then backup and restore a database using Transact-SQL statements, it is really good fun, well it is if you don’t have much of a life like us.

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This weeks training video screencast: Time for a bit of theory this week. We take a look at the Department of Defense four layer networking model and talk about how it maps to the seven layer OSI model. See the DoD model come alive as we show you the four layers in action using Network Monitor. Not quite as exciting as it might sound, but not too shabby!

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: This week we look at a beta copy of VMWare for the Intel Mac, which excites us as we are generally quite sad. Anyway, the product looks great. watch us take our first look at Ubuntu running under VMWare Fusion and also test compatibility between VM Machines created on a PC, will it work?? Watch and find out!

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: It's festive and it's late but hey it was xmas right? Anyway here is our attempt at making Terminal Services look sexy. Look out for the intro tune by Shabih. 

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: A girl talks us through what Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server is all about. Su-Fay (girl) guest presents this one, and takes us through the installation of SharePoint and shows us how to knock up a quick site for Nick to store his important documents. If this one is crap, blame the girl!

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This weeks Video Training Screencast: With the Nintendo Wii making it's hugely awaited launch here in Europe we thought we would take an extended look at this latest gaming console. We take a detailed look at the machine, what you get and how it works. Great live action featuring our 1st dual camera podcast.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: A mac mini makes a superb home cinema PC. Watch us demonstrate what it can do. Load of people are now considering having a PC in their lounge. Look a great alternative solution from Apple, the Intel Mac Mini. It is next to silent, cheap, powerful, comes with all the software you need, the list goes on, just watch the podcast!

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This weeks training video screencast: So its about time you guys started getting involved with the show. This weeks podcast is a little different as we take a look at how to start recording your own content to be featured in future episodes of show. Normal service will be resumed next week so till then start creating! Download ZD Screen Capture 1.5 for free and start creating today.

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This weeks training video screencast: Okay so what is groupware and what will it do for me and my organisation? This week Nicholas Hill demonstrates eGroupware, showing us how to install and configure it up. This weeks guest is Jonathan Hill who shares his thoughts on the subject.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Migrating from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2007 in around 30 mins. We all know Exchange 2007 will be a 64 bit product but we get our hands on an early beta copy to take a first look at how migrating from 2003 to 2007 can be done in an afternoon of playing around. Follow the complete cycle in this great episode.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Host your own blogging website with this great FREE product! If you liked Joomla! then you will love Wordpress and if you don't know what Joomla! is you haven't been watching! This product makes it so easy to host your own elegant and extensible blogging website. In fact it is so easy Nick can use it, well sort of. Watch us install and setup our first Video Blog.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Our guest presenter shows us three new virtualisation technologies for windows. We are really glad to welcome our first guest presenter Stephen Hill onto the show to talk about Sandboxie, Moka5 and MojoPac. With three new products on the market we felt it was high time we took a look at some free tools to do the job.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Create your very own vbs logon script with our template and this podcast. Visual Basic logon scripts can be quite daunting but they are extremely powerful and incredibly flexible. You can do practically anything. Using our template you can quickly create a logon script that maps drives, connects to printers, verify if an application exists and even check the registry.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: If you only see one progress bar podcast this year, make sure its this one It is about time that we started to look into Windows Vista, so in this episode we install it for the first time. An excellent podcast to watch if you have no concept of what a progress bar is, but other than that it is largely devoid of techncal content. Go on, watch us watch the progress bar!

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: What with our 3 servers and 2 client machines, the management of our network is becoming a pain so we introduce Systems Management Server to help. This episode is an overview of the product, We also celebrate our 21st episode with an amazing firework display (Its actually quite embarassing really). Oh, yeah a little bit of bad language in this one, not much around 4 or 5 words I guess. And back by popular demand (2 posts) Shabih is back to give us advice on bad breath!

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This weeks training video screencast: Users, Groups and Resource Sharing This week we start to build up the ad.itidiots.com Active Directory Domain with resources, all using Best Practices. This includes creating users, groups and assigning permissions to a shared folder and a network printer. Also we use a group policy to give our users a home directory stored centrally on our file server. Amazing stuff really.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Administration Tools, Custom MMCs and Taskpads This week we turn our attention back to our virtual network which now contains domain controllers, an Exchange server and a WSUS server. As the servers will be hosted in the other room, we need to find a way to administer them from our client machine, in this case Windows XP. This podcast shows the installation of Windows Administration Tools on Windows XP, creating custom MMCs and taskpads.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Make sure that all of your client machines are kept automatically up to date with the latest patches, drivers and service packs. Fixes and patches are now a part of the operating systems life-cycle. It can be a real pain to find out if a patch is required on your client machines, to test it, and finally deploy it. Oh yeah, it would be useful to find out if the update actually worked! WSUS is a free product from Microsoft for use in corporate networks. Its main purpose is to synchronize with the Microsoft Update Server on the Internet to keep up to date with the all available patches, fixes, etc. Then, once the updates have been successfully tested, they can be approved for automatic deployment to all the clients. This podcast shows the installation of WSUS, Group Policy configuration, synchronisation of updates, approval and update deployment. What more could you ask for?

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Parallels for the Mac: Run Windows/Linux/DOS!! on a Mac On a previous episode we showed you VMWare and went through its uses. Now we look at Parallels, a similar product available for the Intel Mac. Basically Parallels emulates a virtual x86 environment and this environment is capable of supporting most x86 based operating systems, for example Windows XP or Linux. In this episode we use Parallels on the new Intel Macbook to run Windows XP, and Windows 2003 server. It really is a great product, and at version 1.0 it can only get better.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: A guide to the installation of Exchange 2003 server and advice on delaying tactics! Shabih continues to be a rather dubious show host in this one which was basically shot far too late at night to be of any worthwhile use. Anyway we talk about the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and try to secure Shabih a Thai bride whilst waiting for the installation to complete.

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: A step by step guide to installing joomla!, a great open source instant website Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites, check out www.itidiots.com, to complex corporate applications. Basically you can create a pretty cool website, with forums, shopping carts and members in around, well the length of this podcast!

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This weeks Training Video Screencast: Do you remember DOS? Well, some of the commands used in DOS are still extremely useful today. We start off in DOS and end up in a Windows Server 2003 command prompt. Come and see just how amazingly useful piping, and the FIND command are. We also introduce some Active Directory command line utils, DSADD, DSQUERY and DSRM.

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