Videos tagged with Windows 2003 Server

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.

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....

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.

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 podca...

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 conn...

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!

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 th...

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...

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. Ama...

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...