I get questions about how to run more and more PHP and MySQL based applications on IIS7, Windows Server 2008.
What’s coming next. MOODLE.
By default, SBS 2008 uses Self Signed certificates in IIS7. The issuer of these certificates is the CA (Certification Authority) installed on SBS 2008 server, and generally, it is not among the list of trusted root authorities in the remote clients. As a result, the remote clients cannot use Outlook Anywhere, or establish a terminal session to the SBS and workstations on the LAN using the Terminal Services Gateway. In addition, they get the annoying pop-up warning stating that the SSL certificate is not valid.
Considering these obstacles, and the low prices of trusted SSL certificates – as low as $14.99 USD, purchasing and using such a certificate should be the recommended approach.
In the following screencast, we demonstrate how to add a GoDaddy Turbo SSL certificate in Small Business Server 2008:
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Dean
Installing Active Directory Domain Services Role on a Server Core installation of a Windows Server 2008, requires running the dcpromo command in conjunction with a number of switches/parameters.
In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, you will see how to promote a Server Core as a DC, and how to check the result of DCPROMO.
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Dean
There are certain scenarious when installing a Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) is a suitable approach. Tightening the security at remote sites and reducing the replication traffic are probably two of the main reasons to choose this approach.
Before you proceed with the installation of an RODC in your network, you have to make sure that it covers certain requirements. Here is a brief overview:
– PDC Emulator – the DC holding the PDC FSMO in the domain where you intend to install RODC must be running Windows Server 2008.
– Global Catalog – you need to have a GC running Windows Server 2008.
– Domain Functional Level must be at least Windows Server 2003
– Forest Functional Level must be at least Windows Server 2003
– Schema modification – you must run once in the forest adprep /rodcprep
In addition, you must have in mind the following:
– Global Catalog – if there are Outlook clients in the branch office, the RODC should be configured as GC.
– Authentication Requests – the RODC forwards authentication requests to a Global Catalog, running Windows Server 2008, in a site that is closest to the site with the RODC.
– Multiple RODCs – RODCs in the same site DO NOT SHARE information with each other. If the connection to a writable DC is down, there could be inconsistent logon experiences for the users
In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate the installation of RODC:
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Dean
Did you ever wonder how to move a production machine to a virtual machine? Windows Server 2008 is an awesome candidate for such a process. As a matter of fact, if you are making a decision at the moment whether to stick with Windows Server 2003 or jump to the new OS and somewhere back in your mind you are silently wishing – if I could have a stand by duplicate machine or duplicate the production network to a test one, don’t hesitate anymore.
I am publishing a detailed, Step-by-Step video tutorial how to do this. To make the demostration more interesting, the target server is running Active Directory Domain Services, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Sharepoint Services, Terminal Services Gateway – in short, it is running SBS 2008.
You can see in the following Screencast, how to duplicate a physical machine to a virtual one, running on the Microsoft Hypervisor.
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Dean
Windows Server 2008 introduces many improvements, and new features in the Active Directory infrastructure. Some of the most important features are:
– Flexible Password Policies
– Active Directory Auditing
– Read Only Domain Controllers RODC
In series of screencasts, we will demonstrate in a Step-by-Step fashion these new features.
In the following screencast, we demonstrate an upgrade of Windows 2003 Domain, by adding a new Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller:
Dean
If you want to run Joomla on a (x64) version of Windows Server 2008, you can do this easily, following the same Step-by-Step video tutorial:
It is important to download the (x64) version of MySQL and (x64) version of PHP.
Dean
SSL certificate is a digital certificate that:
1. Authenticates the identity of a Web site to visiting browsers
2. Encrypts traffic between the web Server and the web browser using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
In the following Screencast, a GoDaddy SSL certificate is installed on a Windows Server 2008, running IIS7.
Dean
We get often the question, whether you can use SelfSSL.exe and generate a Self-Signed Certificate in IIS7. In the following Screencast, you can see how to use SelfSSL.exe, to generate and assign a certificate, using the correct name of the web site – test.netometer.com. In addition we import it, and add the issuer to the root of the trusted certificate authorities, so you do not get a warning every time you open the web site.
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Dean
In a series of screencasts we will demonstrate the installation and initial configuration of Small Business Server 2008. SBS 2008 is based on Windows Server 2008 OS and during the installation process it automatically configures the following applications and features:
– The Windows SBS Console
– Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 (with RPC-over-HTTP and Outlook Web Access functionality)
– Microsoft Forefrontâ„¢ Security for Exchange Server, Small Business Edition
– Windows SharePoint® Services 3.0
– Windows Liveâ„¢ OneCareâ„¢ for Server
– Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP1
– Integration with Microsoft Office Live Small Business services
– Remote Web Workplace
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Dean