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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 22
Monday, October 27, 2008 8:45 AM

TODAY is the second and last week of EXAM Review day! Please remember to sign up for tonight session and good luck on your exam! Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

70-640 Week 20
Monday, October 13, 2008 8:41 AM

This is the last week of reading before exam, review! Please make sure that you sign up for the exam review sessions, so we know how many people are planing to attend. This weeks reading for the self study group is: 17.2 Confiruation and Usering Activie Directoru Federation Services 21 21 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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

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70-640 Week 19 Q&A Answer
Friday, October 10, 2008 8:05 AM

What AD RMS roles has read-only access to the AD RMS logs? Answer: The AD RMS roles with read-only access to the AD RMS logs is “AD RMS Auditors” Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

70-640 Week 19
Monday, October 06, 2008 8:39 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 16.2 Configuring and Using Directory Right Management Services 16 45 17.1 Understadnign Active Directory Federation Services 29 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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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
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:38 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 15.2 Configuring and Using Directory Certificate Services 28 55 16.1 Understanding and Installing Active Directory Rights 27 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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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

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

70-640 week 16
Monday, September 15, 2008 8:35 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 13.2 Proactive Directory Preformance Management 25 41 14.1 Understanding and Installing AD LDS 16 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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

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

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

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 13.1 Proactive Directory Maintenance and Data store Protection 53 53 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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

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

70-649
Friday, September 05, 2008 1:44 PM

Well I passed it, this morning!!! Man that was nice, 3 exams done in one shot!!! I think that I am the first one for the study group to pass all three exams! I know that Todd was close because he took and passed two of the beta exams! Even better I got a score of 1000 on the 70-640 exam section too! 850+ on the others. All this studying will help me led the study... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, 70-649

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
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:43 AM

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

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 13
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:31 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 11.2 Configuring the Global Catalog and Application Directory Partitions 9 45 11.3 Configuring Replication 24 12.1 Understanding Domain and Forest Functional Levels 12 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

70-640 Week 12 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 22, 2008 8:37 AM

Which FSMO roles does not matter if all DC are GC and Why? Answer: Infrastructure Role and it is not all that important because all GC will have the most up-to-date information about every object. yes you will still have one but… Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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 12
Monday, August 18, 2008 8:30 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 10.2 Configuring Operation Masters 16 44 10.3 Configuring DFS Replication of SYSVOL 13 11.1 Configuring Site and Subnets 15 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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
Monday, August 11, 2008 8:29 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 9.2 Configuring and Using Domian Name System 28 47 10.1 Installing Domian Controllers 19 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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
Friday, August 01, 2008 8:27 AM

I posted this early because of the long weekend. Have a great long weekend. This weeks reading for the self study group is: 9.0 DNS and IPv6 13 38 9.1 Understanding and Installing Domian Name System 25 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, SMS, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, exam

70-640 Week 9
Monday, July 28, 2008 8:26 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 8.1 Configuring Password and lockout Policies 13 38 8.2 Auditing Authentication 6 8.3 Configuring Read-Only Domain Controllers 19 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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

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