Bron: Microsoft.com

SYMPTOMS

After you install security update 911567 on a server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, an application may encounter a 0xc0000005 access violation error. This problem occurs when the application uses Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange (CDOEX) and the Person.GetVCardStream method.

For more information about security update 911567, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS06-016.mspx

RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Exchange Server 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947147

Bron: blogs.zdnet.com

HP is begonnen met een nieuwe service: datacenter capaciteit op afroep. De grote vraag is uiteraard of grote bedrijven de gok durven nemen.

Kleinere bedrijven zullen al snel aanhaken, is de verwachting, omdat het goed aansluit bij wat ze vragen.

HP noemt het Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service (AIaaS) en verwacht dat bedrijven wel zullen durven en willen aanhaken, zeker nu de economie weer terugloopt (in de VS dan vooral).

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8231&tag=nl.e622

Bron: winbeta.org

De eerste examens voor Windows Server 2008 zijn nu uit.

• 70-640 TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring
• 70-642 TS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring
• 70-643 TS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring

http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?id=14896&catid=1

http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=1487

Bron: msexchange.org

Nathan Winters bespreekt in deel 2 opnieuw de migratie van GroupWise naar Exchange 2007.

My co-author Declan Conroy and I will walk you through the installation of the Connector for Novell GroupWise and the Calendar Connector on the Exchange Server, and the GroupWise API on the GroupWise server. We will also give some background on our lab network so you can easily recreate the environment.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/migration-deployment/groupwise-exchange-2007-interoperability-migration-part2.html

Bron: msexchange.org

Anderson Patricio bespreekt in zijn verhaal de overstap van mail op Linux naar Exchange 2007. In deel 1 bespreekt hij een rechtstreekse overstap zonder eerst een tussenstap via Exchange 2003 te hoeven doen.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/migration-deployment/moving-linux-mail-server-p2p-network-exchange-server-2007-part1.html

Bron: msexchange.org

Henrik Walther heeft het 2e deel van zijn artikel over het recoveren van een geclusterde Exchange 2007 mailbox server online gezet.

Hij gaat verder waar hij gebleven was en belicht o.a. Passive Mailbox Server rollen die aan je cluster moeten worden toegevoegd en alle opruimwerkzaamheden die je nog moet doen in AD en DNS.

In the previous article in this two part article series on how you recover a lost CMS in Exchange Server 2007, we went through how you install the first passive mailbox server, recover the CMS itself and how you restore the Mailbox databases from backup. In this article we’ll continue where we left off. We will install the Passive Mailbox Server role on additional nodes in the Windows cluster, update storage group copies, resume replication, testing cluster fail-over and finally explain how you clean up the obsolete computer account objects and A-records in Active Directory and DNS respectively.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/high-availability-recovery/recovering-exchange-2007-clustered-mailbox-server-cms-recovercms-switch-part2.html

Bron: winbeta.org

Microsoft heeft gisteren de WebDAV extensies voor IIS 7 op Windows Server 2008 uitgebracht.

Microsoft has created a new WebDAV extension module that has been completely rewritten for Windows Server 2008. This new WebDAV extension module incorporates many new features that enable web authors to publish content better than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options. For additional information, please see our documentation.

This new WebDAV extension module is only for Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0; it will not work on Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services 6.0.

32-bit: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1621

64-bit: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1618

Documentatie 32-bit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105146

Documentatie 64-bit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105146

Bron: winbeta.org

Overview

The Windows Server® 2008 operating system includes a variety of technologies that communicate with the Internet to provide increased ease-of-use and functionality. Browser and e-mail technologies are obvious examples, but there are also technologies such as automatic updating that help you obtain the latest software and product information, including bug fixes and security patches. These technologies provide many benefits, but they also involve communication with Internet sites, which administrators might want to control.

This white paper provides information about the communication that flows between features in Windows Server 2008 and sites on the Internet, and describes steps to take to limit, control, or prevent that communication in an organization with many users.

This white paper is designed to assist you, the administrator, in planning strategies for deploying and maintaining Windows Server 2008 in a way that helps provide an appropriate level of security and privacy for your organization’s networked assets.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89ddfd58-c6db-4be8-a7f4-9c326f967d45&displaylang=en&tm

Bron: msexchange.org

Neil Hobson bespreekt een methode om handmatig de consistentie van een database, die in principe continue wordt gerepliceerd, te controleren.

The whole concept of continuous replication has been a fantastic addition to Exchange Server and few can argue with the importance of its inclusion within the product. With Local Continuous Replication (LCR) and Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR), Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backups taken from the passive copy of the database are supported although it’s still possible to take a backup from the active copy. What about testing the consistency of the copy of the database that hasn’t been backed up? Additionally, with the introduction of Standby Continuous Replication (SCR), Microsoft does not support backups taken from the target copy of a database enabled for SCR so how would this copy be checked? Contrast this to the legacy streaming backup API used in earlier versions of Exchange which performed a page-level integrity check of the database as the backup was taken. Microsoft has supplied information about what can be done to manually perform a consistency check against an Exchange 2007 database that has been enabled for continuous replication and in this article we’ll look at the steps required.

It is important to note that this information is not strictly confined to Exchange 2007 SP1 since the procedure also works on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Exchange 2007. It’s always useful to know how to perform different tasks on different versions of Exchange and in this article I’ll be focusing on a lab CCR environment, although the steps below are essentially the same for other types of continuous replication including the new SCR feature. The whole process involves a mixture of Exchange Management Shell cmdlets as well as other tools supplied with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2007. Let’s get going and see how this method works.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/storage-group-copy-checksums-exchange-2007.html

Bron: msexchange.org

Rui Silva gaat verder in deel 2 over de continue backup van Exchange 2007 m.b.v. Microsoft’s DPM 2007.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/monitoring-operations/continuous-backup-exchange-server-dpm-2007-part2.html

Bron: activewin.com

ShadowExplorer is a cool utility that lets you browse the shadow copies created by all versions of the Vista OS in a point-and-click GUI fashion. With ShadowExplorer, you can see the available point-in-time copies, browse through the copies that have been created, and retrieve older versions of files and folders as needed. It should be noted that ShadowExplorer is in no way a replacement for backups, but it can definitely help you find an restore older copies of file from time to time. The utility is available as a free download from here. (via ghacks)

http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/21521/

Bron: activewin.com

Dit artikel gaat in op de vernieuwingen/veranderingen die er in Windows Server 2008 zijn m.b.t. IPsec.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/tips/tip.asp?DocID=1304542

Bron: Microsoft.com

Microsoft heeft een KB-artikel gemaakt die als leidraad gebruikt kan worden bij de planning voor migratie van Windows Server 2003 naar 2008.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948070

Bron: Microsoft.com

Microsoft heeft een document gemaakt waarin de diverse functies van Windows Server 2003 worden vergeleken met Server 2008. De nadruk ligt vooral op de veranderingen in het nieuwe product.

Overview

This document describes new features and technologies, which were not available in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), that will help to increase the security of computers running Windows Server 2008, increase productivity, and reduce administrative overhead.

These topics apply to the next release of Windows Server 2008, based on the functionality expected to be included in the Beta releases in 2007. They do not describe all of the changes that are included in Windows Server 2008. Instead, they highlight changes that will potentially have the greatest impact on your use of Windows Server 2008 and provide references to additional information.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=173e6e9b-4d3e-4fd4-a2cf-73684fa46b60&DisplayLang=en

Bron: blogs.zdnet.com

Apple is sinds kort begonnen met het agressief pushen van haar Safari browser. De Apple browser blijkt zelfs gepusht te worden naar OS’en die niet ondersteund worden. Zo blijkt de installer op Windows 2000 te crashen.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1621

Bron: blogs.zdnet.com

Cisco heeft afgelopen woensdag verschillende patches uitgebracht voor IOS operating system. De kwetsbaarheden zitten in switching, IPv6 en VPN.

Het artikel beschrijft een aantal van deze kwetsbaarheden die op een schaal van 1 tot 10 een rating van boven de 7 hebben gekregen.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=981

Bron: infoworld.nl

HP meldt dat ongeveer een derde van de CIO’s denkt binnen afzienbare tijd problemen te krijgen met hun datacenters op het vlak van budget, stroomcapaciteit, koelingcapaciteit en uitbreidingsmogelijkheden ervan.

HP hoopt klanten te kunnen helpen bij het bouwen van datacenters met de diensten van het eerder overgenomen EYP Mission Critical Facilities.

http://www.infoworld.nl/nav/nb?id=9749

Bron: Microsoft.com

Overview

A list of all security audit events for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82e6d48f-e843-40ed-8b10-b3b716f6b51b&DisplayLang=en

Bron: Microsoft.com

Op deze TechNet site is de Windows Server 2008 security guide te vinden.

This guide provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running Windows Server® 2008 that are members of an Active Directory® domain.

In addition to the guidance that the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide prescribes, this Solution Accelerator provides tools, step-by-step procedures, recommendations, and processes that significantly streamline the deployment process. This guide not only provides you with effective security setting guidance. It also provides you with a reproducible method that you can use to apply the guidance to both test and production environments.

The key tool that this Solution Accelerator provides for you is the GPOAccelerator. The tool enables you to run a script that automatically creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) you need to apply this security guidance. The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Settings workbook that accompanies this guide provides another resource that you can use to compare and evaluate the Group Policy settings.

Microsoft engineering teams, consultants, support engineers, partners, and customers have reviewed and approved this prescriptive guidance to make it:

·         Proven. Based on field experience.

·         Authoritative. Offers the best advice available.

·         Accurate. Technically validated and tested.

·         Actionable. Provides the steps to success.

·         Relevant. Addresses real-world security concerns.

Microsoft has published security guides for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server. This guide references significant security enhancements in Windows Server 2008. The guide was developed and tested with computers running Windows Server 2008 joined to a domain that uses Active Directory® Domain Services (AD°DS).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc264463.aspx

Bron: petri.co.il

Als je een Windows Server 2008 Server Core installatie hebt gedaan moet je daarna alle beheerhandelingen op de server middels de command line doen.

Hiervoor is nu een tool beschikbaar waarmee je de volgende handelingen kunt doen:

• Product Activation
• Configuration of display resolution
• Clock and time zone configuration
• Remote Desktop configuration
• Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords)
• Firewall configuration
• WinRM configuration
• IP configuration
• Computer name and domain/workgroup membership
• Installation of Server Core features/roles

After installing CoreConfigurator (supplied as MSI package), navigate to the folder where it has been installed and execute CoreConfigurator.exe.

http://www.petri.co.il/manage-windows-server-2008-core-settings-coreconfigurator.htm