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myITForum Donation
Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:23 AM

With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation to MyITForum (MIF). Why do I do it? Well as a User Group leader for www.OWSUG.ca , I know how much it cost to host a small user group community. OWSUG is extremely small compared to MIF! Our network traffic is nothing... Read More...

by Garth Jones

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1st Anniversary
Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:30 AM

Well today is 1 st anniversary of me taking steps to upgrade my certifications to Windows 2003 / Windows 2008. As many of you know I have blog about my experiences with all the exams. So this blog post is designed to talk about a few things. Which exam I write and pass? Which certifications did I achieve? What exam tips can I give you? Which exams did I write... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Virtual Server , User Groups, 70-401, ConfigMGr, 70-400, MOM, Study group, SMS, OpsMgr, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, Ottawa, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, SCVMM, Vista, exam, 70-652, 70-403, 70-402, 70-624, Q&A, 70-298, A+, SQL, Windows 2003, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431, MDT, 70-635

Job posting
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:47 PM

Make sure that you stop by the OWSUG Job forums. There have been 10 new posting within the last month with more that half of them for Microsoft! Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Virtual Server , User Groups, 70-401, 70-400, MOM, Study group, SMS, OpsMgr, Canada, Fun Links, SoftGrid, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, MS Support, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, Podcast, System Center, Ottawa, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, SCMDM, SCSM, SCE, SCVMM, Vista, exam, 70-652, 70-403, 70-402, MVP, Code, VS 2008, 70-624, Q&A, 70-298, A+, SQL, Windows 2003, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431, MCSE, Hyper-v, WQL, MDT, 70-635

70-640 Week 20 Q&A Answer
Friday, October 17, 2008 8:10 AM

What are AD FS four service roles? Answer: Federation Service Federation Service Proxy Claims-Aware Agent Windows Token-Based Agent Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 20 Q&A
Monday, October 13, 2008 8:11 AM

What are AD FS four service roles? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 18 Q&A Answer
Friday, October 03, 2008 8:12 AM

What is CRL? Answer: Certificate Revocation List Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 18 Q&A
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:14 AM

What is CRL? Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 17 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 26, 2008 8:31 AM

What versions of Windows 2008 can be used to publish PKI certs to AD? Windows 2008 Web Windows 2008 Web Core Windows 2008 Standard Windows 2008 Standard Core Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Enterprise Core Windows 2008 Datacenter Windows 2008 Datacenter Core Answer Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Datacenter Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 17 Q&A
Monday, September 22, 2008 8:32 AM

What versions of Windows 2008 can be used to publish PKI certs to AD? Windows 2008 Web Windows 2008 Web Core Windows 2008 Standard Windows 2008 Standard Core Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Enterprise Core Windows 2008 Datacenter Windows 2008 Datacenter Core Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 16 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 19, 2008 8:21 AM

When does WSRM polices kicks in? Answer: 70% of CPU utilization is when WSRM kicks in. Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 16 Q&A
Monday, September 15, 2008 8:23 AM

When does WSRM polices kicks in?   Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 15 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 12, 2008 8:32 AM

Where, how can you find the tombstone container? What is it used for? The tombstone container is used to store AD objects for a period of time before they are removed from AD. The tombstone container is found at cn=deleted objects, dc=<domainname>, dc=<network name net, com, ca, etc> You need to use LDP.exe or a 3rd party tool to access this container... Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 15 Q&A
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:34 AM

Where, how can you find the tombstone container? What is it used for? Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 14 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 05, 2008 8:44 AM

Which tool provide a wizard that can perform object and security translations tasks? Answer: Active Directory Migration Tool Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 14 Q&A
Monday, September 01, 2008 8:45 AM

Which tool provide a wizard that can perform object and security translations tasks? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 13 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 29, 2008 8:39 AM

What are the forest and domain functional levels? Forest: Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Domain: Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 13 Q&A
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:43 AM

What are the forest and domain functional levels? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 12 Q&A
Monday, August 18, 2008 8:38 AM

Which FSMO roles does not matter if all DC are GC and Why? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 11 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 15, 2008 8:19 AM

Define each of acronym: DHCP DNS DoS FLZ FQDN GNZ MX RLZ RP SRV SYSVOL TXT WINS Answer: DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DNS – Domain Name Service DoS – Denial of Service FLZ – Forward Lookup Zones FQDN – Fully qualified domain name GNZ – Global Names Zone MX – Mail exchanger RLZ – Reverse lookup zones RP – Responsible person   <insert... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 11 Q&A
Monday, August 11, 2008 8:21 AM

Define each of acronym: DHCP DNS DoS FLZ FQDN GNZ  MX RLZ RP SRV SYSVOL TXT WINS Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 10 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 08, 2008 8:12 AM

Match up the IPv6 address types to their corresponding format Types: Global unicast Link-local Loopback Site-local Unspecified Format : :: ::1 All others FE80:: FEC0:: Answer Unspecified = :: Loopback = ::1 Link-local = FE80:: Site-local = FEC0:: Global unicast = All others Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 10 Q&A
Monday, August 04, 2008 8:14 AM

Match up the IPv6 address types to their corresponding format Types: Global unicast Link-local Loopback Site-local Unspecified Format : :: ::1 All others FE80:: FEC0:: Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A, Q&A

70-298 Section 6.1 Q&A Answer
Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:19 AM

Name all six trust types. Answer : No trust **** Personally I don't think this is a trust type but I didn't write this book so... Trusts between Domain in a Forest Shortcut trust External trust External trust with a non-windows kerberos realm forest trust Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A, Q&A, 70-298

Q&As
Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:14 PM

70-298 Well all questions have be pre-posted and September 22nd will be the last Q&A for 70-298 exam. 70-640 I will continue to post the weekly Q&As for 70-640 and the last Q&A will be posted on Oct 17th. Remember that the exam review session are Oct. 20th and 27th and I will be leading those sessions. 70-649 Sometime this LONG weekend, I will start... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A, Q&A, 70-298, Windows 2003, 70-649

70-640 Week 9 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 01, 2008 8:36 AM

What are RODC and why are they more secure? Answer : RODC = Read-Only Domain Controllers RODC maintains a small number of cache user accounts and therefore if compromised the affect is limited to those account only. Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A, Q&A

70-640 Week 9 Q&A
Monday, July 28, 2008 8:39 AM

What are RODC and why are they more secure? Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 8 Q&A Answer
Friday, July 25, 2008 8:14 AM

Which of the following can be deployed via GPSI? Batch file (.Bat) Command File (.Com) Executable (.Exe) Visual Basic Scripting Edition (.Vbs) Windows Installer (.Msi) Windows PowerShell (.Ps1) Windows Software Installation Settings file (.Zap) Answer : Windows Installer (.Msi) Windows Software Installation Settings file (.Zap) Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 8 Q&A
Monday, July 21, 2008 8:15 AM

Which of the following can be deployed via GPSI? Batch file (.Bat) Command File (.Com) Executable (.Exe) Visual Basic Scripting Edition (.Vbs) Windows Installer (.Msi) Windows PowerShell (.Ps1) Windows Software Installation Settings file (.Zap) Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 7 Q&A Answer
Friday, July 18, 2008 8:11 AM

Where are Security Templates stored by default on a DC? Answer : %SystemRoot%\Security\Templates Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 7 Q&A
Monday, July 14, 2008 8:15 AM

Where are Security Templates stored by default on a DC? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A, Q&A

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