I’ve spent a bit of time recently looking at backup solutions for Windows 2008 Server. For those who don’t know Windows 2008 has no native support tape devices which have been replaced by removable disk storage e.g. external USB hard disks. Microsoft have replaced the old NTBackup utility with Windows Backup in Windows 2008. A free download version of NTBackup that allows you to restore … Continue reading Backup (and Recovery)
System Centre Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is Microsoft’s enterprise backup solution. Here is a short overview of the key features and a couple of gotcha’s. Continue reading Data Protection Manager 2007 overview
Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is the product formerly known as ISA. TMG is included as a component of EBS 2008 Server and installs on to the Security Server. TMG runs on a 64bit edition of Windows 2008 where ISA only supports 32bit environments. TMG is only available with EBS 2008 currently or as a beta version for other server versions. Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 included ISA 2004, however this option has been removed from SBS 2008. Continue reading Forefront TMG with EBS 2008 overview
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