Wow! What a great resource! here is an article that will "map" the maturity level (Gartner-style) of your IT infrastructure to technical solutions.

In other words: "Dear customer, you are here, let's go there together, we will show you how to build a managed environment".

 

 

Thank you Jean-Marc for the tip.

Link to a good "Branch Office Deployment Guide":

There is a full article in Technet describing how to configure a cluster running Virtual Server 2005.

This is frequently requested by our clients, we used to say: "hey only VMWare features virtual SCSI disks". Not anymore.

Microsoft has released a tool to help you move that all-important data from that old faithful NT box to a brand new 2003 server.

I will be testing this tool in my 2274 course this week.

How did I miss this? This Msoft Web site is a very cool source of info. It's packed with videos detailing the ins and outs of Microsoft products. Check it out! Now!

...by using this very cool tool:

i just love it!

 

Cheers

 

MV

This toolkit enables you to migrate actual production machines (like your existing Windows 2000 domain controllers) to virtual machines so you can deploy them within Virtual Server and try out different upgrade scenarios to see how they work.

Cheers

MV

Link to a good article on the subject:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html

 

Cheers

 

MV

One of our customers is still running a NT 4.0 BDC in their AD 2003 Domain (thus, mixed functional level).

We want to upgrade their AD Forest to the 2003 Functional Level.

Unfortunately, a very critical application is running on that NT BDC and, no, we cannot migrate the application or upgrade the BDC to W2K(3). As you understand, this application NEEDS NT 4.0 and it's been installed on a BDC.

The solution? Demote the NT BDC to a member server then rejoin the AD Domain.

How? We will probably use the upromote tool. As far as I know, this is the only way to unpromote a BDC.

I will keep you informed of the results...

This is cool: with this easy-to-use tool, one can simply migrate a live server to a virtual one. I know VMWare has its own tools, but they are very expensive. Besides, this works with Virtual PC too...