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Migrating Windows 2003 Standard to Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 standard.
Migrating Windows 2003 Standard to Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 standard.
Run a full backup on your MS 2003 standard server
Make sure your domain has been promoted to domain functional level and forest function level of Windows Server 2003.
To upgrade open up Active Directory Domains and Trustes
Right click Active Directory Domains and Trusts and click Raise Forest Functional Level
Social networking is spreading like wild fire. People are replacing traditional communication with social networking sites like facebook. While this is great for people to stay in touch it poses a big security risk. We are noticing that many people are posting way too much information on facebook. Did you know that once you upload a picture to facebook you no longer own the rights? Facebook can use your photos on their site exclusively without any further notice to you.
Security Tools/Data Recovery
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.
Issues with WSUS after dcpromo
If you already have a wsus on server 2003 you will probably have issues after you run a dcpromo on that box. you will notice that you cant uninstall wsus or windows internal database. To fix the issue follow the following steps:
Server 2008 x64bit Not Installing on VMWare esxi 4
If you get errors when installing x64 bit OS’ you will need to enable the virtualization mode inside the bios of the physical box. This is what Dell calls it, some vendors are different.
Disabling Apache Directory Browsing
Disabling directory browsing on apache2. First thing you will need to go is browse into the following directory:
Sniffing Snoop on Netscreen/Juniper Firewalls
If you want to sniff traffic on a juniper netscreen firewall you will need to use the snoop command. The best thing to do is the following:
Adobe Flash Error Fix
If you get the following message in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\install.log
Errors Installing Adobe Flash
While attempting to install Adobe Flash, if you get the following message: MessageBox: 12582960, ”Failed to install. For troubleshooting tips, please see http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_19166″
Malware Search List
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com is a good site to visit if you want to check if a certain site is known to have malware present.
