Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Windows 2008 Server product launch event in Dallas, Texas, USA.
This was one of the many free events that Microsoft offered, around the world, to educate end users, developers, and IT pros on what their new Windows 2008 Server operating system has to offer.
We had a […]

Installing a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) isn’t much different than installing a regular domain controller.
However, there is one important factor to keep in mind. A RODC can only be installed into an existing Active Directory Domain with at least one full (non-read-only) Windows 2008 Server Domain Controller.
The reason is that the […]

If you have been following our FTP 7.0 chronicles in the first article we Installed FTP Publishing Service for IIS 7.0 and configured it for anonymous access.
For those with less public needs, the next article covered Setting up FTP 7.0 User Authentication using both Windows authentication and IIS User Manager.
In this article we […]

The newly implemented Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) in Windows Server 2008 provides a way to increase the security of servers whose physical security cannot be assured.
In addition, it can provide a way for local administrator privileges to be assigned to a user that you need to be an administrator at the local level, […]

As I wrote in the article Installing FTP 7 on IIS 7.0, Microsoft completely rewrote the FTP service code for Server 2008.
Included in this update were a number of ways to secure your FTP server against intrusion. One of the easiest ways to secure your FTP site is to have users authenticate instead of allowing […]