Windows Server Team

Future Meeting Plans

We are looking at having a meeting in London in January to look at Hyper-V and Core Server. Check back in the New Year for more details.

Communities

	UK User Group home page The UK User Group community events home page is dedicated to bringing you the upcoming events that are jointly held by the various User Groups.
	The VistaSquad A recently established user group focusing on Windows Vista and the .NET 3.0 framework.
	PowerShell User Group The first PowerShell user group in the world. Meetings are great with a very good involvement from Microsoft.

Blogs

	Eileen Brown Head of Microsoft UK's evangelism team Eileen write a very informative blog around the themes of Messaging, Mobility and Real Time Collaboration.
	James O'Neill Windows platform evangelist in Eileen's team at Microsoft UK James also blogs on a number of other subjects including virtualisation and photography.
	Steve Lamb Blogs on Security and Management for the Microsoft UK evangelism team.

General

	PowerGUI Want a GUI interface for your PowerShell scripts and a community to share your ideas with? Then PowerGUI is the place for you.
	Kimberry Associates Scotty first met John Craddock and Sally Storey several years ago and attends presentations of theirs whenever he can because they do such a great job of explaining the key seldom discussed topics of AD so well. In particular check our their book Active Directory Forestry below.
	re-invent re-invent.com are our hosting provider, setup was easy and quick, worth evaluating if you are looking for Windows hosting.

Books

	Active Directory Forestry Investigating and Managing Objects and Attributes for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Cannot recommend this book enough for anyone interested in a no nonsense look at the way AD works under the surface or wants to learn more about LDAP access to AD. Learn more from Amazon.co.uk.
	Protect Your Windows Network Steve Riley and Jesper Johansson are two of the most informed and knowledgeable Windows security professionals and this book is one of those must reads for everyone looking to protect a Windows environment in the 21st centaury. Learn more from Amazon.co.uk.
	Windows PowerShell in Action Bruce Payette a member of the PowerShell team at Microsoft has produced a very good book for those new to PowerShell covering the basic and advanced topics in a comfortable and approachable style. Learn more from Amazon.co.uk.

Welcome

You have landed at the Windows Server Team a community for everyone interested in Microsoft's Windows Server especially Server 2008 aka 'Longhorn'.

Our primary aims are to build a community in the UK based on meetings of members and this web site but all contributions are welcome wherever you are based.

What's New

MCS Talks: Enterprise Architecture (Infrastructure Architecture)

Microsoft is currently running a series of webcasts under the heading of MCS Talks: Enterprise Architecture with topics including: Infrastructure architecture. Core infrastructure. Messaging. Security and PKI. Identify and access management. Desktop deployment. Configuration management. Operations management. SharePoint. Application virtualisation....

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-28-2008
Active Directory UK user group

The number of user groups around Microsoft products seems to be increasing steadily and another group has recently started - the Active Directory UK user group (ADUG) - who aim to: “[…] build a community of Active Directory users, be they experts or beginners, where they will be able to ask questions, share experiences and learn from each other and...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-28-2008
Outlook cached mode is not available on a server with Terminal Services enabled

I was putting together a demo environment earlier today and needed to publish a Terminal Services RemoteApp , so I installed Terminal Services (and IIS) on my Windows Server 2008 notebook. Later on, I noticed that Outlook was not working in cached mode and I found that offline store (.OST) files and features that rely on them are disabled when running...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-20-2008
Core Configurator - download it whist you can…

A few months ago, I wrote a post on customising Windows Server 2008 Server Core and Michael Armstrong tipped me off about a cool utility, written by former MVP Guy Teverovsky, called Core Configurator . I say former MVP, because Guy has given up that award to join Microsoft in Israel - and I’m not surprised, after his employer claimed it was their intellectual...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 08-19-2008
Re: What's better for mapping drives, batch files or VBScript?

I prefer vbscript, see the below for a very good faq on using vbscript for this purpose; http://tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5798

Posted to General (Forum) by pagy on 08-19-2008

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