The Sys Admin

Windows Server 2008

Many of you may know that Vista is having problems with drivers and compatibility of older peripherals and probably will not settle down until Vista SP1 is shipped later this year. The same thing happened when XP shipped in October 2001. At that time many folks were comfortable with Windows 2000 Professional and did not move to XP and waited until September 2002 when Windows XP SP1 shipped.

This makes us a little skeptical when considering the new version of Windows Server 2008. One thing to realize is the Windows Server 2008 team is a different team than the Vista Team and the Windows Server 2008 team is still on track to ship Windows Server 2008 later this year. This does make me a little less skeptical, however we will probably wait until the Windows Server 2008 SP1 is shipped in the middle of 2008 before deploying in our production environment.

Folks interested in reading, trying or listing to information about Windows Server 2008 can check out the following link .... http://www.Microsoft.com/events/series/windowsserver2008.aspx?tab=overview.

I also came across a great blog hosted by a Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist named Arlino Alves. Arlino touches on many areas of interest but in particular has a number of posts discussing 10 reasons to look at Windows Longhorn (Windows server 2008). Check it out ....

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More Microsoft Resources

I also came across a Microsoft MVP blog that features SMS, MOM and Ops Manager.

It's called Pete's Management Blog, and Pete goes into a lot of detail in each subject area. Another link worth mentioning is a link that I found on Pete's Site to the Microsoft System Center Forum, which also has a lot of great information on MOM and Ops Manager.

Check it out ....

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Unix-help.com

Came across a useful Unix Forum at www.unix-help.com.

Check it out ....

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3 Terabyte NAS Device

Do you need more storage ?

Are you looking for a somewhat portable NAS device ?

Check this out ...... Interop '07: NetGear shows 3 terabyte hardware RAID-based NAS (it's a Web server too) by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Here in Las Vegas at Interop 2007 while roaming the show floor prior to the start of the event, I bumped into the folks at the NetGear booth who were preparing to announce several products at the show. But the one the grabbed my attention was the latest ReadyNAS network attached storage device. [...]

Technorati : NAS

Security Now Podcast and Blog

I just listened to a great podcast on Security Now that featured an interview with the co-founder and CTO of eEye Security, Marc Maiffret. Marc produced security products like Retina, Iris and Blink. Marc talks about Windows and Mac security, the coming threat from web applications, and eEye's free, all-in-one protection program, Blink Personal Edition.

Check out the Podcast, Episode 91, Blink and the many other TWIT podcasts and blogs.

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Microsoft Exchange Webcasts and Virtual Labs

If you are looking to learn about Microsoft Exchange, here is a great free resource from Microsoft.

You can register for each session and view over 100 Free Webcasts on Microsoft Exchange Server, or if your preference is listening, you can download each cast to your favorite MP3 player and listen to the podcast version of each Webcast. Follow the link http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/tnexchangeserver.mspx for more information.

Also, if you prefer hands on Training for Microsoft Exchange, the Exchange Server Virtual Labs is a great link to all the working Exchange Server Virtual Labs.

Well worth a visit for those folks looking to invest some time improving their Microsoft Exchange Server skill set.

Technorati : Exchange Server, Microsoft

Unix Support Links

Here are a couple of links that the folks supporting UNIX environments may find useful .....

Sys Admin Blogs:

http://esofthub.blogspot.com/ My SysAd Blog -- UNIX

http://aplawrence.com/artindex.html Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems

http://unix-news.blogspot.com/ Nothing but Unix

http://uadmin.blogspot.com/ Unix Admin Corner

Sun, AIX and HPUX Links:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/solSysadminGuide/ Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.html Big Admin - Sun Administrator Resources and Community

http://www.sunhelp.org/unix-sysadmin-resources

AIX Maintenance Strategies

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/index.html AIX 5L

HPUX 11i

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/cache/324545-0-0-0-121.html

Technorati : AIX, HPUX, SUN, System Administration, Unix