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Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part3

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Now we have created the GPO needed so that our clients can access the WSUS and all the required policy’s , now we reach the point that we need to make a decision about your branches , from my experience if a branch have less than 50 users you d Read More...

Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part3

Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part2

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:03:00 +0000

the next step is to create the required GPO set a new GPO name edit the GPO go to the GPO properties we Disable the user config because its un needed in that case now we open the GPO ,Computer config , Admin Templates , windows compon Read More...

Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part2

Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part1

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:20:18 +0000

I found that a lot of people don’t understand or even know how to use WSUS , its one of the oldest tools , but still lets refresh our memory of what it can do for us starting from windows 2008 R2 you can now install WSUS as part of the w Read More...

Back To Basics : Windows Server Update Services -WSUS Part1

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 9 ( Customizations )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:50:00 +0000

creating Web application monitor we give it a name we select the URL that we need we add a watcher nodes Advanced options overview with advanced options view you can monitor how the HTTP(S) response to you also you can specify if that URL requ Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 9 ( Customizations )

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 8 ( Customizations )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:00:00 +0000

creating a process monitoring most of my customer prohibit Live Messenger from running so we create a process monitoring to monitor if the application is running or not ) please note that I am using monitor only whether the proce Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 8 ( Customizations )

Back To Basics : Add Alternate Name for your login

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:07:00 +0000

I have seen this case many times before sometimes when creating a naming convention the domain name becomes very long ( it seems the older the organization the longer the name and a lot of domains with a lot of Childs ) . any way you will end up with Read More...

Back To Basics : Add Alternate Name for your login

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 7 ( client monitoring)

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Enabling client monitoring . this is the error reporting built-in the windows machines . so instead of sending the error to Microsoft you will be sending it to this server we go the the administration > management server > select configure clie Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 7 ( client monitoring)

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 6 ( Management Packs)

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Importing exchange 2010 management pack The Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack includes a Windows service component called the Correlation Engine. This service determines the best alert to raise by examining the Exchange 2010 health model through t Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 6 ( Management Packs)

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 5 ( Management Packs)

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:18:00 +0000

Next importing the file services Management packs (including DFS and DFS R ) DFS name Space Will need agent act as proxy and the account the ability to access the folders in the name space DFS Replication Will need agent act as proxy and enable b Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 5 ( Management Packs)

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 4 ( Management Packs)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +0000

The step after is importing the management packs Each management pack have its own guide to work with –or you can import and hope for the best – some require modification your systems (changes like install os fixes ) one of the pointer that you h Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 4 ( Management Packs)

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 3 ( Agent installation )

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Next step we start by installing Agents Note: I will be using SCOM to push the agent across forest trust To install Agent Note that the action account must be admin on the remote machines to be able to install Normally the agent start to fun Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 3 ( Agent installation )

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 3 ( RMS installation )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Deployment Types Single server, single management group: the all-in-one installation Multiple server, single management group: roles distributed across servers Connected management groups: multiple management groups working together to provide monit Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 3 ( RMS installation )

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 2 (Requirements)

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Supported Configurations You can install on any OS starting from 2003 Sp2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309428.aspx Recommendation · Root Management Server (RMS) not to be virtualized for performance reason Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 2 (Requirements)

Windows 8 Hyper-V 3 Step by step

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:10:46 +0000

Windows 8 developer preview have been out for some time now , and with it comes the new HyperV , I know it’s a bit early to start testing it but I could not wait specially with all of the new features , we are not talking ab Read More...

Windows 8 Hyper-V 3 Step by step

Smartest Machine On Earth

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:20 +0000

Well there is no words to describe the below videos , folks we are getting closer to Matrix,Terminator ,and StarTrek . Jeopardy Watson Match Read More...

Smartest Machine On Earth

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ( VMM 2012 ) Part 5

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:04:00 +0000

How to Create a Virtual Machine Template in VMM 2012 there is a several ways you can create a template in Vmm2012 you can place a preconfigured VHD in the library share ,select a preexisting VM in the library or on a host we will see how to create Read More...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ( VMM 2012 ) Part 5

Network access protection (NAP) a practical point of view (Part2)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:23:00 +0000

in part one we explained the essentials of network access protection Now on the health server please start the health and click on configure nap On the wizard we select the DHCP Lets give it a name Next we specify the DHCP servers that we w Read More...

Network access protection (NAP) a practical point of view (Part2)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ( VMM 2012 ) Part 4

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines in VMM 2012 Rapid provisioning of virtual machines In VMM 2012, you can rapidly provision virtual machines by using Storage Area Network (SAN) copy technology such as snapshot and clone. Rapid provisioning is Read More...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 ( VMM 2012 ) Part 4

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 1 ( introduction )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Scom has a lot of feature I always like to demo it as a car . imagine that you drive without meters,windshield and mirrors what is the chances of you having an accident ? this is why we need SCOM . its your mirrors (See the past near and far ) you Read More...

System Center Operations manager (SCOM 2007 R2 ) :Part 1 ( introduction )

How to Deploy HyperV CSV Cluster Step By Step

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:28:00 +0000

In this post I will try to demonstrate how to build a HyperV Csv Cluster in simple and easy steps Make sure of the normal things needed You are using windows Ent. or datacenter (failover cluster not supported on standard or web Read More...

How to Deploy HyperV CSV Cluster Step By Step

Network access protection (NAP) a practical point of view (Part1)

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:51:00 +0000

Network access protection is one of the best features in windows 2008 and above it increase you compliance level and give you insight about you machines status . I have seen many people jump to comparing NAP to a NAC infrastructure . well thi Read More...

Network access protection (NAP) a practical point of view (Part1)

How to add copy to and move to to the Right Click menu

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:47:00 +0000

I always liked the move to and copy to feature in windows but unfortunately its hidden in widows 7 . found this article in how to geek site that help solve this . Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu A hidden functionality i Read More...

How to add copy to and move to to the Right Click menu

Step by Step BitLocker The Why and The How

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:57:00 +0000

Have you ever lost a laptop ,external hard disk, thump drive (USB/flash stick ) ? this is when you start remembering the critical things on that drive that you did not consider before it might be photos ,critical documents..etc. . think now that was Read More...

Step by Step BitLocker The Why and The How

How to deploy Exchange 2010 Sp1 Hosting Service

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:14:00 +0000

How to become exchange 2010 provider ? . well for starters try to become a reseller for Ms exchange hosting or office 365 . what if both are not available or way too expansive for your customers ? . you can easily start joining the hosting provider c Read More...

How to deploy Exchange 2010 Sp1 Hosting Service

Application Virtualization best practices V4.6Sp1 Sequencing Flash & Adobe Reader

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:48:00 +0000

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) transforms applications into centrally managed services that are never installed and don’t conflict with other applications. IT professionals and end-users alike face challenges in today’s work enviro Read More...

Application Virtualization best practices V4.6Sp1 Sequencing Flash & Adobe Reader

Step by step System Center Advisor

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:09:00 +0000

What If you have several location distributed across huge geographical locations without connection or with poor connection speed ? how would you collect and proactively protect your systems ? this when SCA comes to the rescue , SCA is cloud based s Read More...

Step by step System Center Advisor

MBAM Step by Step ( BitLocker Administration and Monitoring )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:04:00 +0000

one of the most common comments I receive in bitlocker deployments is how to enforce it on all systems with zero touch ? MBAM fix this issue Overview Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) builds on BitLocker in Windo Read More...

MBAM Step by Step ( BitLocker Administration and Monitoring )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 17 ( Creating MDT Task to deploy OFFICE APP-V Kit )

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:36:00 +0000

Now we have completed the needed application we need only to customize APP-V Kit in MDT task to match our needs We create a task for installing the office deployment kit You will have you change the GUID to match your package Also change t Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 17 ( Creating MDT Task to deploy OFFICE APP-V Kit )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 16 ( Sequencing office 2010 )

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:35:00 +0000

Office 2010 is a bit different then the other because its built to be used with APPV so the integration is much deeper than 2007 The Office Deployment Kit for App-V enables the following functionality while Office is running virtualized: Exte Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 16 ( Sequencing office 2010 )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 15 ( Sequencing Office 2007 )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:29:00 +0000

We create a folder under our Q: using 8.3 Directory name Prescriptive guidance for sequencing 2007 Office programs in Microsoft App-V (SoftGrid) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939796 We start Office Installation in the Q folder After we done Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 15 ( Sequencing Office 2007 )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 14 ( Creating the sequencer machine)

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:25:00 +0000

Creating the sequencer machine Its trial and error process, not all the application have a sequencing recipe a lot have it but not all so it’s always good to do your homework before you start Some of the best practices in creating the SEQ machine Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 14 ( Creating the sequencer machine)

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 13 ( Setting APP-V management Server Basic configuration )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:23:00 +0000

we go to the properties of the app-v server and set the default content path There are tree types of software licensing models that are supported by App-V. These are: Named user licensing – only named users (users specifically identifie Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 13 ( Setting APP-V management Server Basic configuration )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 12 ( App-V Management Server )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:17:00 +0000

Now step one creating the needed groups in AD I always recommend one group per application ,Group for admins and group for users allowed connection to the server Set SQL port Create the Management Server Install IIS with the following · Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 12 ( App-V Management Server )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 11 ( Shares ,Limited users,basic monitoring )

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:06:00 +0000

Creating the necessary Shares For example backup share Don’t forget to update the deployment share before you go live Also updating the WIM boot file in WDS Limited User When you try to run the Litetouch script over limited user account no Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 11 ( Shares ,Limited users,basic monitoring )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 10 ( making the LiteTouch into ZeroTouch)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:48:00 +0000

First we got to the bootstrap.ini With it we can make MDT use user name and password without the need for us to insert it Change BootStrap.ini Paste the following (don’t forget to change the path and the user name and password ) [Settings] P Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 10 ( making the LiteTouch into ZeroTouch)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012 ) Step By Step Part 3

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:01:00 +0000

Creating a Private Cloud and Configuring Self-Service User Roles A private cloud is a cloud that is provisioned and managed on-premise by an organization. The private cloud is deployed using an organization’s own hardware to leverage the advantages Read More...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012 ) Step By Step Part 3

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 First look step by step Part 2

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:38:00 +0000

Configuring Networking Logical networks represent an abstraction of the underlying physical network infrastructure which enables you to model the network based on business needs and connectivity properties. After a logical network is created, it can Read More...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 First look step by step Part 2

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Step By Step Part 1

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:35:00 +0000

I have ben a fan of a such handy server , have you tried management 50 or more hosts? .believe my I will be a complicated process . now we have the idea of the cloud all around us .this when SSP2.0 come into play and now even farther VMM2012 will tak Read More...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Step By Step Part 1

How to configure the DPM Client to allow non-admin users to perform end-user recovery of DPM protected data

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:11:00 +0000

Found this nice Post ..Enjoy ” The administrator of a client computer must set the name of non-admin users who have to have permissions to perform end-user recovery of protected data of a client computer. To do this, the administrator must add Read More...

How to configure the DPM Client to allow non-admin users to perform end-user recovery of DPM protected data

MEDV 2 Step By Step

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Summary MedV is one of the few application that revolutionized the way we migrate the operating system .with MEDV you will be able to migrate first then remediate as you go . so instead of waiting for the vender to release an update or even the vendo Read More...

MEDV 2 Step By Step

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 9 ( MDT Configuration )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Creating windows 7 Master Deployment Task sequence this is the task we will be using to deploy windows 7 to all our machines I don’t trust automatic actions to format my computer so I disable the Task action the format. Specially that we will Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 9 ( MDT Configuration )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 8 ( Master Machine Setup )

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Install APP-V client Due to all client will have this software there is no point in installing it after we can include it in our image also it super lite (below 100M) also this will deliver all our software from the cloud as soon as user first log on Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 8 ( Master Machine Setup )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 7 ( WDS,DHCP PXE boot Configuration )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Configuring the WDS WDS is the PXE Responsible so MDT relay on WDS to offer PXE requests Setup a location for the WDS files (not recommended by MS to be as same as OS but so far its working ) First option does not make sense to be selected unless Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 7 ( WDS,DHCP PXE boot Configuration )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 6 ( MDT Configuration )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:59:00 +0000

Creating a Task Sequence for bare metal installation This can be done using the normal windows 7 DVD but it’s nice to have a test drive. · Importing the OS files (this is the windows 7 DVD ) full set select the DVD Give it a name · Crea Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 6 ( MDT Configuration )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 5 ( Windows Deployment -AIK,WDS,MDT installation)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Windows Deployment Windows® Automated Installation Kit The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) is a collection of tools and documentation that you can use to automate the deployment of Windows operating systems. The AIK is one of several reso Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 5 ( Windows Deployment -AIK,WDS,MDT installation)

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 4 ( The Assessment Tools -Collecting the assessment results )

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:32:00 +0000

Collecting the assessment results Now we have all the tools we need it’s time to give it a look ACT The final application results MAP OMPM First download a new version of ompm.accdr is available here and replace the one existing in reports f Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 4 ( The Assessment Tools -Collecting the assessment results )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 3 ( The Assessment Tools -Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) )

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:26:00 +0000

Office Migration Planning Manager The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) 2010 is a group of tools designed to help administrators during the planning and testing phases of a Microsoft Office 2010 deployment. OMPM assists administrators in the Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 3 ( The Assessment Tools -Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 2 ( The Assessment Tools -Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:10:00 +0000

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automat Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 2 ( The Assessment Tools -Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) )

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 1 ( The Assessment Tools -Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) )

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:42:00 +0000

Migrations ,what an interesting topic each and every one of us will do it eventually , currently I am working on several projects (secure endpoint) ,a part of this projects is windows7, this post series will help anyone interested in migration to win Read More...

Windows 7 Migration Plan Guide Using Lite Touch Deployment :Part 1 ( The Assessment Tools -Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) )

Deploying TMG Array in DMZ ( Workgroup ) Part 2

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:12:00 +0000

now we have our TMG installed and our certificates ready in my previous post next step is to install the certificate on the array manager from the TMG console select system then select the array manager you will find install server certificat Read More...

Deploying TMG Array in DMZ ( Workgroup ) Part 2

Deploying TMG Array in DMZ ( Workgroup ) Part 1

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:27:00 +0000

this is one of the topics that I am asked on a lot " how to deploy TMG array in workgroup" .8 out of 10 if you don’t know the steps you will fail . deploying the TMG in workgroup is all about the order you do it in . it’s Read More...

Deploying TMG Array in DMZ ( Workgroup ) Part 1

Password Expiration Notification

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:48:00 +0000

I have worked with this customer due to business need all users work with laptops and rooming all year .the machines are workgroup and the email is POP3 .now for the hard part there is a security policy in place that forces users to change password e Read More...

Password Expiration Notification

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 12 ( Best Practices from Microsoft IT )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:32:00 +0000

the below information is a bit old – from 2009 – but still the same concept apply By thoroughly evaluating and deploying an RMS server infrastructure and using the IRM client technology in Office Enterprise , Microsoft IT learned several Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 12 ( Best Practices from Microsoft IT )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 11 ( Reminders )

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:22:00 +0000

DON’T use the NetBIOS name of the machine as the cluster URL. DO make a back-ups of your SLC and Publishing Certificate located in the ‘Trust Policies’ section of your RMS Admin UI, *immediately* after provisioning. There i Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 11 ( Reminders )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 10 ( Exchange 2010 and RMS )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:16:00 +0000

Change the pipeline security settings to allow exchange request certificate On the exchange hub we run the following command (this command will add a system mailbox to the super user group ) Add-DistributionGroupMember RMSsuper -Member Feder Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 10 ( Exchange 2010 and RMS )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 9 ( File Classification Infrastructure and RMS )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:13:00 +0000

What is the File Classification Infrastructure? The Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) automates classification processes so that you can manage your data more effectively. You can save money and reduce risk by sto Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 9 ( File Classification Infrastructure and RMS )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 8 ( Enable Super users and Creating Templates)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Next the super user Group The super group is the Master key for all your documents and must have a restricted access to this group (MAX four users ) as this users will have access to all the documents . also note that any member will be picked up af Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 8 ( Enable Super users and Creating Templates)

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 7 ( Create a DFS Share)

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:35:00 +0000

this this post we will see how to create a distributed file system (DFS) so that our RMS templates will be always online Note: there is other methods to do this like DNS round robin and manually maintain the file share path on the RMS servers , or s Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 7 ( Create a DFS Share)

Outlook Archiving

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:43:24 +0000

I always get several question related to users mailbox sizes and how to fix this without too much trouble for the Support team or the administrators team. most of the questions I get are like my users don’t archive and I don’t kno Read More...

Outlook Archiving

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 6 ( Create a Custom Template to Issue the Needed Certificate )

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

this post ill show you how to create a custom template in your internal CA and how to issue a certificate with alternative names so that I can be installed on all the needed servers Please note this certificate will be used for Internal (in Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 6 ( Create a Custom Template to Issue the Needed Certificate )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 5 ( Creating NLB )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:21:00 +0000

in this post we will learn how to install and create network load balance cluster step by step Some NLB Key Terms ARP: Address Resolution Protocol. This is a TCP/IP protocol that resolves IP addresses used by TCP/IP-based software to media access co Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 5 ( Creating NLB )

Microsoft SpyNet why to enable it ?

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:09:00 +0000

Kim Ditto from Microsoft had wrote a great post about Spynet what it is and what it is benefits "" So have you ever wondered what the Microsoft SpyNet opt in page is really all about? Microsoft SpyNet is a cloud service that allows the FE Read More...

Microsoft SpyNet why to enable it ?

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 4 ( To cluster or not to cluster that is the Question )

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:20:00 +0000

Now what design we will be using in our example Making AD RMS highly available While AD RMS might be a critical service, server downtime is typically not a problem Users can still protect content offline Users can continue consuming content they ha Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 4 ( To cluster or not to cluster that is the Question )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 3 ( Available Rights and other technologies )

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:01:00 +0000

Types of Rights Available By using AD RMS–enabled applications, such as Office Word , Office Excel , and Office PowerPoint from Office Enterprise , a document owner can apply rights to a document file through one of three methods: Default rights Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 3 ( Available Rights and other technologies )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 2 ( The Parts and process )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:40:00 +0000

RMS platform comprises the following basic elements that enable rights management: RMS. RMS is a server technology that certifies trusted entities, licenses rights-protected information, enrolls servers and users, and administers functions of rights Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 2 ( The Parts and process )

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part1 (Introduction)

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:35:00 +0000

This guide is the steps taken from Microsoft TechNet but with rearranging the topics to seem a bit logical for someone that does not know the technology (there is no point in reinventing the wheel). I also added my personal experience into it and exp Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part1 (Introduction)

How to install Two node SQL 2008 R2 Server Failover Cluster

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:38:00 +0000

SQL now is part for almost every Microsoft product so the availability of it becoming very critical I will describe the failover cluster as a method of SQL high availability . I have to say also this is not the only method .some use database mirrorin Read More...

How to install Two node SQL 2008 R2 Server Failover Cluster

How to make Two node Failover Clusters -Windows Server 2008 R2 (File share witness and disk majority )

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:12:00 +0000

What is clustering Definition ? A failover cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to increase the availability of applications and services. The clustered servers (called nodes) are connected by physical cables and by Read More...

How to make Two node Failover Clusters -Windows Server 2008 R2 (File share witness and disk majority )

Active directory certificate services 2008R2 overview

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:38:00 +0000

I have noticed that not so many people know and use Microsoft Active directory certificate services .Microsoft had gone a great length to make our life much easier but more secure . this post will provide you with overview and how to install it in a Read More...

Active directory certificate services 2008R2 overview

Forefront Protection Server Management Console Step By Step

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:05:53 +0000

now in our previous post we installed forefront protection for exchange on four server (Forefront protection for exchange 2010 Installation and design Step by Step ) now we need from one location the ability to manage it and see reports from centrali Read More...

Forefront Protection Server Management Console Step By Step

Forefront UAG Client Components Restart you browser massage not going away

Ahmed Hussein — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:47:40 +0000

Restart you browser to complete forefront UAG client components installation . all browser windows will be closed . I encountered this massage several time during the past few month , this massage due to that the UAG can not update the old ve Read More...

Forefront UAG Client Components Restart you browser massage not going away

Forefront protection for exchange 2010 Installation and design Step by Step

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:43:00 +0000

I love forefront protection for exchange it probably the most successful antispam well if it sized correctly . performance considerations to simplify a lot of reading for you its about 64MB per Engine per process( process means the how many emails w Read More...

Forefront protection for exchange 2010 Installation and design Step by Step

TMG Setup for DPM Communication

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:57:00 +0000

This video covers troubleshooting DPM communication to and from a TMG server. In the video we verify that we have connectivity, then we break the communication between the two and walk through the steps needed to be performed on the TMG server in ord Read More...

TMG Setup for DPM Communication

Forefront Endpoint Finally RTM

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:35:24 +0000

this the moment we have been waiting for FEP Finally Reached RTM. for the full post http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/archive/2010/12/16/announcing-the-release-of-forefront-endpoint-protection-2010.aspx resources Forefront En Read More...

Forefront Endpoint Finally RTM

Forefront Endpoint protection Basic Configuration Step By Step

Ahmed Hussein — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:16:00 +0000

in ” Forefront Endpoint protection installation Step By Step ” we seen how to install FEP in this post we will see how to make basic configuration . so we will do Policy Deployment Client deployment with Enforced installation Client upd Read More...

Forefront Endpoint protection Basic Configuration Step By Step

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 3 of 3

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:03:00 +0000

APPwrap We need to make UAG switch the choice we need UAG to select store my credentials we do this using APPwrap We go to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway\von\Conf\WebSites\test\conf “ “Test is my trunk name” Cr Read More...

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 3 of 3

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 2 of 3

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:03:00 +0000

Most of the articles I found on the topic of UAG customizations are primarily focused on “how to make you understand the issue and a basic info on how to fix it, this method is great but only if you have two or three weeks to setup a lab and Read More...

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 2 of 3

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) : Part 3 (the Configuration ) And best practices from the field

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:31:32 +0000

you May also want to view other parts Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) : Part 1 (the design) Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) : Part 2 (the installation) First let us discuss the scenario that we will base our configu Read More...

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) : Part 3 (the Configuration ) And best practices from the field

Forefront Endpoint protection installation Step By Step

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:35:03 +0000

Microsoft had done several improvement in FEP ,now FEP have two main management components system center configuration manager for deployment and basic reporting system center operations manager for real-time reporting for compariso Read More...

Forefront Endpoint protection installation Step By Step

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 1 of 3

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Well System center virtual machine manager self service portal was one of the most challenging application to be published not because it have problems with code but because it has so many dynamic parts , the main two part in SCVMM SSP Read More...

Publishing SCVMM SSP using UAG Part 1 of 3

Forefront client security 14 day history

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:28:53 +0000

I have seen this in many cases when installing FCS over windows 2008 , issue that your 14 day history not displayed appropriately (see below) or you have empty bars . well to fix this issue we have things we need to make s Read More...

Forefront client security 14 day history

Forefront Client Security and the Autorun virus Tip

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:10:19 +0000

First I need to clarify that FCS will catch any virus Autorun or any kind but this post to for you to go the extra Mile and be proactive to prevent the virus from even entering your system even if a USB stick was inserted into infected computer not u Read More...

Forefront Client Security and the Autorun virus Tip

Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 release candidate (RC)

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:28:01 +0000

Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 release candidate (RC) has been publicly announced , if you did not tried it yet you should ,Microsoft gone the extra mile with this one for more information please visit FEP HOME http:// Read More...

Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 release candidate (RC)

Forefront Client Security Tip

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:21:13 +0000

this is one of the Most common issues in FCS ,this error usually appears because of misconfiguration or bad server sizing the Symptom FCS console stop registering new computers or have very old information this means when you run report you Read More...

Forefront Client Security Tip

Email Protection with Threat Management Gateway

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:02:00 +0000

Utilizing Microsoft mail protection technologies Forefront TMG leverages the capabilities of the Exchange Edge Transport Server role and Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPES) to provide mail relay and anti-spam and antivirus pro Read More...

Email Protection with Threat Management Gateway

Forefront client Security : Part 1

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:46:00 +0000

today one of my customers asked me what is the best antivirus for business? there is a thousand type out there and all look a like ,and no one can effort mistake, there is home based antiviruses out there claiming to be able to be used in busi Read More...

Forefront client Security : Part 1

Forefront client Security : Part 2

Ahmed Hussein — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:51:24 +0000

in my previous post we learned how to install FCS server so next step how to configure it and deploy clients policy and explorer the interface so lets start by lunching the console you will get before you begin wizard basically it conf Read More...

Forefront client Security : Part 2

DPM 2010 BMR and SYSSTAT Recovery

Ahmed Hussein — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:18:00 +0000

This is a video walkthrough of DPM 2010 BMR for Windows Server 2008. It demonstrates the steps necessary to perform a successful BMR should you experience a catastrophic failure. This video covers how to restore a system state back Read More...

DPM 2010 BMR and SYSSTAT Recovery

Configuring TMG logging to a remote SQL server

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:12:00 +0000

why would you do that ? we may have so many reasons to uses remote SQL instead of the local SQL express on the TMG box from a security point of view you many need this so that not all your eggs in one basket and from operational point of view real ti Read More...

Configuring TMG logging to a remote SQL server

Forefront UAG 2010 – Update 2.

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:20:27 +0000

Some of the major functionality added in this update: · Client Components Enhancement—The Forefront UAG SSL Application Tunneling component is now supported on Windows 7 64-bit operating systems for 32-bit applications. · Virtual Desktop Infrastr Read More...

Forefront UAG 2010 – Update 2.

Understanding Performance Impact of Fast Trickling Option on TMG 2010

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:14:44 +0000

Introduction When the EMP feature is enabled, TMG will accumulate data downloaded by the client and scan all the content for malware before transferring it to the client. Accumulating the entire file and scanning it, may take a significant time. Duri Read More...

Understanding Performance Impact of Fast Trickling Option on TMG 2010

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) :Part 2 (the installation)

Ahmed Hussein — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:48:53 +0000

The Hardware !!!!! what hardware is best for my environment ? well here is the two TechNet articles that clear the sizing and min requirements System requirements for Forefront TMG http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd896981.aspx Forefront T Read More...

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) :Part 2 (the installation)

MED-V v2 Beta finally available

Ahmed Hussein — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:32:09 +0000

Some of its new enhancements No dedicated MED-V infrastructure to deploy – MED-V 2.0 workspaces are deployed and managed using existing electronic software distribution (ESD) systems, including System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM Read More...

MED-V v2 Beta finally available

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) :Part 1 (the design)

Ahmed Hussein — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:15:00 +0000

TMG where do I put it and why ? two of the most common questions I got ,of Couse there is more than one answer for that question but let us work with two of the most common installation of TMG Secure Gateway (Edge Firewall ) Web Proxy so wh Read More...

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) :Part 1 (the design)