Todd's OWSUG Blog

Just a reminder to everyone (at least in North America) that time changes tonight. We fall back an hour and gain an hour of sleep.  Always check your systems tomorrow to ensure they changed correctly. Last spring I made a post on how to set the time source on Windows Server 2008.  Nothing has changed, [...]

I have rebuilt my Hyper-V server at the office and decided to try out Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage my virtual machines on that host. One of the things I find useful is having a template for Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. Through the licensing arrangement of Enterprise, you can have up to 4 [...]

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsft Exam: 70-646: PRO: Windows Server Administration using the Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 3, Lesson 1, the topic is Active Directory

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsft Exam: 70-646: PRO: Windows Server Administration using the Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 2, Lesson 2, the topic is DNS

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsft Exam: 70-646: PRO: Windows Server Administration using the Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 2, Lesson 2, the topic is DNS

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsft Exam: 70-646: PRO: Windows Server Administration using the Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 2, Lesson 2, the topic is DNS

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsft Exam: 70-646: PRO: Windows Server Administration using the Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 2, Lesson 1 whose topic is IPv6.

These are my exam preparation notes for Microsoft Press book, MCITP Exam Prep 70-646: Windows Server Administration; ISBN: 0735625107. This note covers Chapter 1, Lesson 2 and includes the topics of Windows Server 2008 Answer Files Windows Deployment Services, Multicast, Scheduled and Automatic Deployment, Windows Deployment Services Images, WDS and Product Activation, and Rollback Preparation

Was talking with a friend a few nights back about how to dual-boot between Vista and Windows Server 2008. He was having some troubles with it so I suggested instead of Dual-booting, he should try and use virtualization product as his host OS and run his Client OS’s on top of it. Dual-boot I think is best for his situation, but if he was having troubles, virtualization might be the trick. Now I don’t have much experience with the VMware product, but I know they have something that will do this and I also mentioned Microsoft is releasing something along...

I am going to be working on two more Microsoft Exams. One is 70-646, Windows Server Administration and the other is 70-236, Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Both are technologies I use at my job and I want to get certified on. My plans for the 646 is to write the exam sometime before the end of October. That being said, if it looks too ambitious then I might push it out to November. The Exchange certification I plan to work on with a friend in Ottawa to help keep me focused. The plan for him and I is to...

Microsoft has a event tour going around Canada in support of EnergizeIT in Toronto. They are giving out a copy of a Study Kit and a voucher and will be presenting some information on Windows Server 2008, Virtualization Security and...

I upgraded my domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 and am now in the process of decommissioning the old servers. Since moving the FSMO roles over to the new server, the new server started warning me that the time source...