HOW TO delegate user to modify fax number & telephone number attributes in AD

September 24, 2008 · Filed Under Active directory, HOW TO, Microsoft, News, Operating Systems · Comment 

Most of the organizations delegates more permissions to users then required for his given job responsibility or task. You may see a very junior administrator or 10+ users in the enterprise/domain admins group. This is a serious security threat & adding an inexperienced administrator in the enterprise/domain administrators groups could be disastrous. Permission control should be treated as an initial step towards a healthier and optimized Active Directory and always remember to grant the right permission for the right person or task Below snapshots highlighting attributes ‘Fax number’ & ‘telephone number’ on which we will delegate a user to modify in active directory user properties for a given domain. Note: Delegation inheritance is per user based and is enabled by default; please verify this setting in case of issues. Firstly, is the permission for all the domain or specific OU? If it is for all users in the domain, right click on the root or on the OU and Select “delegate control “

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New Citrix Xen Server - Project Orlando

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under Citrix, News, Virtualization · Comment 

Citrix released its all new Xen Server beta edition as Project orlando.This release delivers many new features and enhancements, in the areas of

  • XenConvert, a new component of XenCenter offering physical-to-virtual conversion from Windows systems to XenServer.(Atlast)
  • New guest operating systems, including:
    • Windows Server 2008 (with initial enlightenment optimizations)
    • Windows XP SP3
    • Windows Vista SP1
    • SUSE Enterprise Linux 9 SP4 (32-bit) and version 10 SP1 and SP2 (64-bit)
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 (32-bit) and 5.2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Improvements in performance for Windows guests and for XenApp.

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free.

September 8, 2008 · Filed Under Microsoft, News, Virtualization · Comment 

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi), will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web.Microsoft will demonstrate live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. And the next version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server (the one after 2008) will have live migration capabilities.System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will be released within 30 days [not a surprise], which will manage Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2,Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 or VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.

Microsoft’s global server OEM partners … report that nearly 100% of their customers who order Windows Server 2008 with hardware are also choosing to have Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V included with their order.Dedicated virtualization lab established within the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center.