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Desktop virtualization is a must for techies. Serious tools for testing and running multiple workloads on your workstation. There are 2 main competitors in this space the first and most awesome is obviously VMWare. Virtualbox is the next best thing to run on Windows. Windows Virtual PC on the other hand does not even support 64 bit virtualization. Until Windows 8 comes out, virtualbox is your best free alternative. With Windows 8 Hyper-V is going to be integrated on the workstation versions of the operating system as well which is awesome, however main thing that lacks with hyper-v on the desktop is the integration features. One thing I loved with Virtual PC 2007 back in the day was its speed, sleeknes of its interface and the integrated copy paste and file drag and drop. This feature was removed for Windows Virtual PC and is also non-existent with hyper-v. Here is an idea actually to develop a drag and drop capable hyper-v connector, let me start working on that
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In an official post from the Building Windows 8 account of Microsoft, company states that the number of users actively using Windows 8 now-called Consumer Preview is double the number of users for Windows 7 Beta release within the same timeframe.
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Demonstrates how to use the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to create template virtual machines for easy deployment. (22)
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Detailed description of the user properties in Active Directory. How to create a user account and a description of each of the different tabs are provided.
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Demonstration of how zone transfers are configured in DNS on Windows Server 2008 R2. Also shows how to use the ls command of the nslookup utility.
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Demonstrates how to configure DNS reverse lookup zone for resolving IP addresses to hostnames, PTR records. Uses the Network monitor tool to show how the DNS packets are sent for PTR records and uses the nslookup utility for reverse lookup of PTR records.
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Stub zones are used to resolve names for additional domains in an AD environment. These zone contain only glue records and not the actual host or srv records but only name servers and their host records so recursive queries can be sent.
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DNS GlobalNames zone is a new feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 to the DNS Server service. GlobalNames zone or GNZ is used to provide single label name resolution to an Active Directory environment that is transitioning from WINS to an all DNS name resolution system. Names in the GNZ are statically configured CNAME records that hosts in any domain in the environment can query and access regardless of where they exist within the forest. This demonstration is the most comprehensive demonstration of how GNZ is configured and how it works for the client by simulating its use in a 2 tree active directory forest.
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Talks about how to configure the DNS Server in Windows Server 2008 R2. Takes a DNS server automatically installed on a domain controller and walks through the settings of dynamic secure and non-secure updates and also aging/scavenging settings for the zone.
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Install and configure a WSUS server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server. Details each of the options that are provided in the initial configuration wizard and how to configure the WSUS server and the client machines with a GPO so the update installations can succeed. Talks about automatic approvals, synchronization schedule and update downloads.
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Use the Windows SIM (Windows System Image Manager) part of the Windows AIK (Automated Installation Kit) to create an unattended answer file that can be used with WDS (Windows Deployment Services). The video demonstrates the creation of an XML answer file and shows how it can be associated with an install image on WDS.
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In this video a WDS – Windows Deployment Services capture image is created out of the boot image from the Windows 7 product DVD. After the capture image is created, a Windows 7 client is prepped with the Sysprep tool and shutdown. The client is then booted into PXE to the WDS server and the capture image is selected. Once the image is captured it is uploaded to the WDS server.
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This video demonstrates how to add a boot image on a WDS – Windows Deployment Services server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. It also demonstrates how the client will boot into this boot image and then select an install image to install the operating system on the client. (14)
In this video you will see how to create a Windows PE or WinPE ISO image and use this to boot a Windows 7 machine to capture its image. Also discussed is how you can connect to a file share in the PE environment and prepare the Windows 7 machine before imaging using the sysprep tool.
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Provides information on WinPE iso images and demonstrates how to create an ISO image using the tools provided in the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7. (10)
Shows how to install the DHCP role on Windows Server 2008 R2 server and how to create a scope to service internal clients. Also talks about DHCP Server authorization, credentials required and how the clients will get their IP addresses from the server. (9)
