Step-by-Step Guide for Setting Up VPN-based Remote Access in a Test Lab

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This step-by-step guide includes updates to the original guide due to security enhancements in the release of Windows Server 2003 with SP1 and Windows XP Professional with SP2.

This guide provides detailed information about how you can use five computers to create a test lab with which to configure and test virtual private network (VPN) remote access with the Windows XP Professional with Service SP2 and the 32-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 with SP1 operating systems. These instructions are designed to take you step-by-step through the configuration required for a Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connection, a Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) with Internet Protocol security (L2TP/IPsec) connection, and a VPN connection that uses certificate-based Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Level Security (EAP-TLS) authentication.

Step-by-Step Guide for Setting Up VPN-based Remote Access in a Test Lab

Exchange Server 2007 White Paper & Case Study

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission-critical communications tool that allows their people to produce the best results. This greater reliance on e-mail has increased the number of messages sent and received, the variety of work getting done, and even the speed of business itself. Amid this change, employee expectations have also evolved.

Today, employees look for rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more no matter where they are or what type of device they are using. For IT professionals, delivering a messaging system that addresses these needs must be balanced against other requirements such as security and cost.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 has been designed specifically to meet these challenges and address the needs of the different groups who have a stake in the messaging system. The new capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 deliver the advanced protection your company demands, the anywhere access your people want, and the operational efficiency you, in IT, need.

This whitepaper provides an overview of the new capabilities of Exchange that help executives, business users and IT professionals do more with less.

Exchange Server 2007 White Paper & Case Study

SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack (x64)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Language packs enable creation of SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2007. Multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Office server product SKU, or the language of the administrative features.

Notes:

You do not need to download a language pack for the language you installed. These language packs are to support creation of additional languages.
SharePoint Server 2007 Language packs are available on the Download Center for trial purposes. If you use the language packs with a fully licensed copy of SharePoint Server 2007, please ensure that you do so within the terms of your Volume Licensing Agreement, as restrictions may apply Learn more about Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack (x64)

Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.04

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is the latest version of the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator. The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP host to an external iSCSI storage array. The Microsoft iSCSI software initiator makes it possible for businesses to take advantage of existing network infrastructure to enable block-based Storage Area Networks without having to invest in additional hardware. For more information, please see the Microsoft iSCSI Support for Windows. http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/technologies/storage/iscsi/default.mspx

Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.04

ISA Server Diagnostic Logging Viewer

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The ISA Server Diagnostic Logging Viewer is a command-line tool for easily viewing and querying log entries generated by the diagnostic logging feature introduced in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) 2004 Service Pack 3. The tool builds queries for filtering diagnostic logging events based on the command-line options that you select, and then uses Log Parser 2.2 to perform the filtering.

The output can be displayed in the Command Prompt window or in a graphical window opened by Log Parser, or it can be saved as an HTML file that can be opened in a browser application, such as Internet Explorer. Output that is displayed in a browser application can be filtered further to obtain the log entries related to a specific logging context.

ISA Server Diagnostic Logging Viewer

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Sales Account Managers

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.

The Sales Account Manager template helps managers streamline the process of analysis of sales and opportunity information for their overall decision making. The template assists in customer account tracking against a set of performance metrics, such as quarterly revenue, growth and opportunity. It also provides a graphical view of the geographical distribution of product sales and opportunities. The objective of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Sales Manager attain their goals of customer satisfaction and revenue augmentation.

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Sales Account Managers

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Controllers-Financial Analysts

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.

The Controller-Financial Analyst template helps Controllers to automate the process of analyzing financial data and information, helping them in their overall decision making process. The template assists in tracking top performing products and opportunities at different geography levels. It also provides a graphical view of product sales and revenue. The objective design of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Controller achieve their goals of communicating overall corporate performance, budget and future growth projection to the management, investors and other stakeholders.

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Controllers-Financial Analysts

SharePoint Server 2007 Templates: All Role-Based My Site Templates

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the My Site functionality and tailored to address the unique needs and requirements of specific roles within an organization. The templates extend the standard My Site functionality, providing a personal portal and dashboard with data relevant to your job role and displaying information in a way that is familiar, easy, and built around the way people in the company work.

This package includes the following Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites:

Controller-Financial Analyst
Sales Account Manager

SharePoint Server 2007 Templates: All Role-Based My Site Templates

Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This guide provides instructions for getting started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0. You will find instruction for basic tasks for deploying WSUS 3.0 on your network, including installing WSUS on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server Longhorn operating systems: configuring WSUS 3.0 to obtain updates; configuring client computers to install updates from WSUS 3.0; as well as approving, managing, and distributing updates. Although WSUS 3.0 is a feature-rich, update-management solution, this guide offers only a single way to accomplish any of these tasks.

Step-by-Step Guide for Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Deploying Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This paper describes how to deploy Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0. You will find a comprehensive description of how WSUS functions, as well as descriptions of WSUS scalability and bandwidth management features. This paper also offers step-by-step procedures for installation and configuration of the WSUS server. You will read how to update and configure Automatic Updates on client workstations and servers that will be updated by WSUS. Also included are steps for setting up a WSUS server on an isolated segment of your network and manually importing updates.

Deploying Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Terminal Services 2000/2003 Management Pack

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Terminal Services Management Pack for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 monitors the health and performance of Terminal Services components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks, and reports, and provides monitoring for Terminal Services, the Licensing Server, and the Session Directory.

This Management Pack detects and alerts problems with performance, health, and availability. It can automatically respond to critical events and performance indicators. In some cases it identifies issues before they become critical, enabling you to increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows operating systems.

Terminal Services 2000/2003 Management Pack

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Active Directory Management Pack

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Active Directory Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Domain Controllers. It can also issue alerts for configuration problems. Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details, possible causes, and suggested resolutions. The Management Pack monitors Windows services critical to a Domain Controller, such as Net Logon, File Replication, KDC, and Windows Time. The Active Directory Client Perspective monitoring is used independently from the monitoring on the Domain Controller. It runs synthetic transactions to validate the availability of the Active Directory deployment from the perspective of an Active Directory client. Client monitoring can be enabled on selected critical members servers or desktop clients.

The Active Directory Management Pack monitors Active Directory and the external components that are related to Active Directory. It provides forest-wide monitoring of the directory service and its required subsystems. In addition to real-time performance and event monitoring, it allows you to respond immediately to critical performance, health, or capacity issues.

Feature Summary:
- Core services (Net logon, KDC), dependent services (File Replication, Windows Time), and SYSVOL/DC Locator availability monitoring
- Synthetic Transactions for general AD, Global Catalog, Op Master Roles response
- Synthetic Replication performance monitoring
- Replication health
- Comprehensive performance metric collection (synthetic transaction and performance counter based)
- Independent Client-side monitoring MP
- Database and Log file growth/free space
- Comprehensive list of tasks to diagnose problems
- AD Topology discovery (Forests, Sites, Domain, and Connection objects between DCs)
- 400+ Event rules with associated knowledge
- Reports in the area of Configuration and Configuration changes, Availability, Performance

Management Pack Release History:
Initial Release 3/23/2007 Version 6.0.5000.0

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Active Directory Management Pack

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB925336)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Install this update to resolve an issue where you receive a digital signature policy error message when installing a large Microsoft Windows Installer (.msi) package or a large Microsoft Windows Installer Patch (.msp) package. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB925336)

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) MUI Language Pack for Windows Server 2003 (KB925877)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Remote Desktop Connection MUI Language Pack is for customers that have deployed the Windows Server 2003 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack in their corporations as a way to ease administration and reduce desktop management costs in multilingual computing environments. This MUI pack displays the Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 interface in multiple languages.

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) MUI Language Pack for Windows Server 2003 (KB925877)

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows Server 2003 (KB925876)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This version of Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) can be installed on client computers running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Service Pack 2 (SP2). It can be used to connect to terminal servers or remote desktops running earlier versions of Windows, but the new features are available only when the remote computer is running Windows Vista or Windows Server Code Name Longhorn.

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows Server 2003 (KB925876)

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB925876)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This version of Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) can be installed on client computers running Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (SP2) and earlier. It can be used to connect to terminal servers or remote desktops running earlier versions of Windows, but the new features are available only when the remote computer is running Windows Vista or Windows Server Code Name Longhorn.

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB925876)

Update rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB 930809)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 customers.

For a list of changes included in this update rollup see KB930809.

Exchange Server 2007 must be installed prior to installing this update rollup.
Any Interim Updates for Exchange Server 2007 must be uninstalled prior to installing this update rollup.

32-bit editions of Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows XP SP2 are only supported for Exchange Server 2007 management tools.

Update rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB 930809)

Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is an add-on to SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enables customers to use the SMS 2003 Software Update Management feature to update their Dell servers. Customers will be able to deploy BIOS, firmware, and driver updates to their Dell servers using the same process that they use for deploying security and other updates with SMS.

SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update includes the following components:

Setup Windows Installer based setup that allows SMS administrator to install all required components on the SMS site server.

Inventory Tool for Dell update (scan tool) this tool is being built using SDK components provided by Dell Inc. It scans a Dell server for installed and missing updates, just like MBSA scans the computer for Microsoft security updates.

Sync tool for Dell update this tool downloads a catalog from Dellâ€:tm:s website on a recurring schedule. This catalog describes all published Dell updates.

Update to Distribute Software Update Wizard (DSUW) Setup will install an update to DSUW to show new UI that allows to manually import multiple component updates contained within a single system update.
Version 3.0 must be installed to coincide with work with the latest Dell catalog.

Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update

User's Help for SharePoint Portal Server

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

User's Help is designed to assist you in the day-to-day tasks of managing the workspace, the folder structure, and documents by using SharePoint Portal Server. SharePoint Portal Server combines document management with a rich, customizable dashboard site to enable users to locate, write, review, and manage content in their organization.

This download is in .chm format. If you are using Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or earlier, you will need an HTML Help viewer in order to view the .chm file. If you do not have an HTML Help viewer installed, you can download it from the Microsoft Download Center.

User's Help for SharePoint Portal Server

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Controller-Financial Analyst template helps Controllers to automate the process of analyzing financial data and information, helping them in their overall decision making process. The template assists in tracking top performing products and opportunities at different geographic levels. It also provides a graphical view of product sales and revenue. The objective design of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Controller achieve their goals of communicating overall corporate performance, budget, and future growth projection to the management, investors, and other stakeholders.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003

This download works with the following Office programs:

Microsoft Office Word 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2007, or
a Word viewer such as Word Viewer 2003

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Sales Account Managers

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Sales Account Manager template helps managers streamline the process of analysis of sales and opportunity information for their overall decision making. The template assists in customer account tracking against a set of performance metrics, such as quarterly revenue, growth, and opportunity. It also provides a graphical view of the geographical distribution of product sales and opportunities. The objective of this Role-Based My Site Template is to help the Sales Manager attain their goals of customer satisfaction and revenue augmentation.

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003

This download works with the following Office programs:

Microsoft Office Word 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2007, or
a Word viewer such as Word Viewer 2003

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Sales Account Managers

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Note Jetstress is only supported when running with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or newer versions of ESE.DLL. Also, due to this support limitation, Jetstress is only supported on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Advanced Server, Datacenter and newer Windows OS platforms (Windows NT 4.0 and older builds are not supported).

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)

Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Use Microsoft Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) as a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers. LoadGen allows you to test how a server running Exchange responds to e-mail loads. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadGen tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load. LoadGen is a useful tool for administrators who are sizing servers and validating a deployment plan. Specifically, LoadGen helps you determine if each of your servers can handle the load to which they are intended to carry. Another use for LoadGen is to help validate the overall solution.

Important! LoadGen should be used only in laboratories that have no connection to the production environment. This tool should not be used in any way in a production environment or an environment that is mission critical or contains important information of any kind anywhere in the network.

Note: The XML configuration file schema in this release has changed from previous versions. If you intend to use configuration files that were created with previous versions of Exchange Load Generator and you have specified client machines to use as remote load generators, you will need to open your configuration in the Load Generator UI, add your remote client machines again, and then save the updated configuration.

Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)

Exchange Load Generator (64 bit)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Use Microsoft Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) as a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers. LoadGen allows you to test how a server running Exchange responds to e-mail loads. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadGen tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load. LoadGen is a useful tool for administrators who are sizing servers and validating a deployment plan. Specifically, LoadGen helps you determine if each of your servers can handle the load to which they are intended to carry. Another use for LoadGen is to help validate the overall solution.

Important! LoadGen should be used only in laboratories that have no connection to the production environment. This tool should not be used in any way in a production environment or an environment that is mission critical or contains important information of any kind anywhere in the network.

Note: The XML configuration file schema in this release has changed from previous versions. If you intend to use configuration files that were created with previous versions of Exchange Load Generator and you have specified client machines to use as remote load generators, you will need to open your configuration in the Load Generator UI, add your remote client machines again, and then save the updated configuration.

Exchange Load Generator (64 bit)

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Note Jetstress is only supported when running with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or newer versions of ESE.DLL. Also, due to this support limitation, Jetstress is only supported on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Advanced Server, Datacenter and newer Windows OS platforms (Windows NT 4.0 and older builds are not supported).

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)

Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool reads these settings from Active Directory and converts them to equivalent Windows Power Shell script (consisting of Exchange 2007 tasks) which can then be run on Edge Transport or Hub Transport roles of Exchange Server 2007.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This guide provides instructions for getting started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0. You will find instruction for basic tasks for deploying WSUS 3.0 on your network, including installing WSUS on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems: configuring WSUS 3.0 to obtain updates; configuring client computers to install updates from WSUS 3.0; as well as approving, managing, and distributing updates. Although WSUS 3.0 is a feature-rich, update-management solution, this guide offers only a single way to accomplish any of these tasks.

Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server

Windows Server 2003 369 Published by Bob 0

Microsoft published a new user guide for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server

Forefront Security for Exchange protects organizations against the latest threats by managing multiple antivirus scan engines at multiple layers throughout the e-mail infrastructure. This approach allows Forefront for Exchange to minimize the average window of exposure for emerging e-mail threats by providing continual signature updates from multiple antivirus labs around the world. Forefront also protects by scanning at multiple layers in the Exchange 2007 infrastructure, including the Edge, Hub Transport, and Mailbox server roles, while using scanning intelligence to avoid needless repeat scanning.
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server

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