This article is designed to help those who want to migrate their Windows Server 2003 TS License Server from one machine to another. We recommend that you read through the instructions once before beginning the migration. License Server migration is an added feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2008 R2, when you right-click on the server name you will see the ‘Manage RDS CALs’ option. After selecting this, you will see the ‘Manage RDS CALs Wizard’ to guide you through the migration process.

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today via their Customer Preview Program. It's avaliable to anyone interested in testing SP2 for Windows Vista and/or Windows Server 2008 prior to the final release.
You can download the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC from the Microsoft Customer Preview Program site or install through Windows Update using their Windows Update Experience Kit. Remember, you will have to uninstall previous versions of the Service Pack before installing the RC and you will have to uninstall the RC version before installing the final version.

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Q. Our domain controller has 4GB of RAM and an AMD Opteron dual-core processor, and we're running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. The Application Log on the server has numerous errors with Event ID 1054. The source of the error is Userenv and the error is logged in the Event Viewer every five minutes. The error states the following: Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (An unexpected network error occurred). Group Policy processing aborted.

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If you look at the enterprise server operating system market, there's Microsoft's Windows server platform, there's the UNIX platform and there's Linux. To characterize it very broadly, UNIX has a large server market share but is in decline, Windows has a similarly large market share and is holding steady, and Linux has a smaller market share that is on the rise. Looking to the future, it's likely there will be the mother of all market share fights between Windows and Linux for the market share UNIX slowly gives up.

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One of the biggest changes to the default backup utility in Windows Server 2008, as compared to earlier versions, is that you can no longer backup to tape drive. Scheduled backups can only be written to removable disks or DVD drives. Given the limited amount of data that you can store on a DVD, it is most likely that your scheduled backups will be written to removable disks. Which brings up an interesting problem. What steps do you need to take to set up removable disks in a library so that you can rotate them off site as a part of your disaster recovery plan?

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Here is a look at what is available and the tests MCSA and MCSE holders can take to upgrade their certificates.
In versions of Windows server products prior to Windows Server 2008, the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) credentials have been pretty standard. The certification changes for Windows Server 2008 introduce new certifications, as well as some important steps for the upgrade process.

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Windows 7 Build 7048 has been speculated as the release candidate version for Windows 7 by many, and there is even fake news that the build has been tagged as RC1. However, as always, there is no confirmation from Microsoft, up until now, which may prove that Windows 7 Build 7048 is, and is not, the RC version, depending on how you interpret the invitation email below.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has indicated to investors that Microsoft is preparing to release a low-cost, low-end version of Windows Server with stripped functionality. The new Windows Server SKU is designed to capitalize on the ever increasing demand for basic computer functionality, which has been introduced into the market along with the netbook craze. Ballmer noted that Microsoft has a relatively small share of the hosting market where the Linux platform prevails heavily and suggested that the new ‘Foundation Server’ will be an attempt to grab server market share away from Linux.

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Microsoft Wednesday made available to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers the final beta of Service Pack 2 for both Vista and Windows Server 2008. A publicly available version of the service packs, which include all the updates delivered since SP1, will come next week, the company said. It did not provide a specific data. The SP2 releases include new hardware support, enterprise features, setup and deployment upgrades and new application compatibility support.

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StarWind Software, a leading global provider of IP SANs and storage virtualization software, today announced full SAN compatibility and support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server clusters for high availability environments with solutions such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and others. "With the recent release of our fourth generation StarWind iSCSI SAN 4.0, our team has been focused on testing, performance-tuning and integrating our products for Windows Server 2008 and we are looking.

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Windows Server 2008 offers a tool to view configuration and resources for systems connected to a storage area network. Here's what you need to know about this new feature. Getting a server connected to an iSCSI or fibre channel SAN is generally straightforward. Across platforms and products, there are many tools to go about doing this. Windows Server 2008 offers a way to browse the SAN natively. This tool, Storage Explorer, is an Explorer-style console to view a local configuration and remote resources.

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A flaw in how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 calculates the time remaining until it must be activated could enable users to potentially run the server for years before activation. The defect is a consequence of Microsoft failing to assess its virtualization strategy, says an analyst. At startup, Windows looks at the install date (located in the registry), and compares it to the current date. It then calculates how many minutes that is, and starts a timer in the background counting down the minutes. Once you are out of minutes - you have to activate.

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VM6 today announces that it will showcase its software, VMex 2008 Server™, during the VMworld Europe 2009 event. Product demonstrations will be held both at the VM6 and Microsoft booths. These showcases will allow VM6 to present how its high availability technology adds complementary value to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center. VMex 2008 Server™ is second generation software that offers high availability technology to virtual environments that is tailored for large enterprise remote office, branch office (ROBO).

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Find out if Microsoft's latest virtualization platform -- Hyper-V -- is ready for production deployments in this white paper by Avanade. Avanade (a global joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft) completed a comprehensive suite of performance tests designed to exercise many different aspects of system performance. They also researched and reviewed Hyper-V from a general feature/function as well as management perspective.

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The initial provisioning of RAM on systems is important. With Windows Server 2008, it becomes even more critical now that 64-bit servers are common equipment. Prior to Windows Server 2008, most servers did not have much of a RAM requirement above 4 GB. In Windows Server 2008, it is time to give some thought to x86 vs. x64 computing in regards to memory allocation. The chart in Figure A shows the RAM maximums available with the different versions of Windows Server 2008.

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