The iSCSI Initiator that we use for connecting Windows to iSCSI targets has a friend. It’s called Microsoft Windows Storage Server, which you can use to turn a DAS RAID in a Windows box into a LUN for iSCSI. Good stuff. Check out the data sheet here: download.microsoft.com/download/d/8/4/ d84b1c50-e0bb-45ba-b2f4-356f4f456a88/WUDSS%20Datasheet_Final.doc Now that’s not to say they’re the only game in town. iSCSI Target is also a feature of OpenSolaris: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/iscsitgt/ And there’s a nifty little Open Source Project called iSCSI Enterprise Target: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsitarget/?abmode=1
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Office Unified Communications Server
Communication is the transfer or collaboration of thoughts, ideas and plans between individuals. It is essential in the organizational success of most businesses to have various easy to use methods of communication. Today’s communication varies from chatting to video teleconferencing. Combining these forms of communication into a simple easy to use interface or tool can drastically increase the flow of collaboration and communication of staff members. Microsoft’s Unified Communication Server and Office Communicator comprise a suite of programs and services that allow businesses to integrate most communication platforms into one centralized management console. Unified Communications takes the functionality of outlook and exchange and combines email with VOIP service, voicemail, chatting,…
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Windows System Explorer
If you’re done with Task Manager then check out SystemExplorer at http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org. SystemExplorer is a free utility that will help you search through those processes for the ones that are virus laden, leaking memory or just plain not supposed to be there and therefore wasting your valuable system resources. SystemExplorer can show file paths, parent processes, process publishers, action histories and let you search for details against a database. In short, there have been great replacements for Windows’ Task Manager for years but this one might just be one of the better ones we’ve tried.
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Windows SBS 2008
Hmmm… Part of me was hoping not to have to deal with SBS any more… http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/sbs/default.mspx
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Blackberry Training Courses
If you do a fair amount of Blackberry Enterprise Server management then you’re gonna’ want to think about the new certifications that are being offered by Research In Motion. There are now training classes and an accompanying certification: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/programs/training.jsp#tab_tab_admin There’s also a track for users: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/programs/training.jsp#tab_tab_users
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Windows Server 2003: Repadmin
To determine where a given change has replicated, use the following command: repadmin /showmeta “CN=username,OU=staff,DC=318,DC=com” <Name of DC> <Name of DC> is the host name of the domain controller you want to check for the replicated parameters.
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Windows Server 2003: DNSLint
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321046
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Windows Server: Terminal Services 2008
WAYYYYY faster than 2003, especially for the Mac. 🙂
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Microsoft Office Live
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Microsoft Office Live Workspace is a portal that allows you to view your Microsoft Office documents online. This includes the ability to share documents and do desktop presentations of Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft Office Live Workspace is in beta and free, so why not give it a try? That’s what Microsoft is asking now that Google Docs and Zoho are moving towards commoditizing the document and spreadsheet space. So first impressions? Office Live Workspace doesn’t let you edit documents. Anyone who has used Google Docs or Zoho is going to be looking for that feature. There is a nice plug-in that is free that…
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RightThumb Windows XP Image Augments in Batch
Save time. Don’t touch a lot of photos one at a time. You can resize images en masse using a variety of tools on the Mac or Windows. Most notably, Photoshop. But there are also less expensive tools, if not free ones out there. For example, RightThumb. RightThumb lets you resize images, filter images, change formats, add prefixes, etc. Nice little tool and free to boot.