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Get To Know About Microsoft MCTS Certification

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Get To Know About Microsoft MCTS Certification
Big companies of the IT industry have these days started coming up with various kinds of certification examination for students and other budding professionals. These certifications are aimed at providing the necessary qualifications to people, with adequate preparation and skill development, so that they are capable of holding competitive job profiles. Microsoft, one of the leading names of the IT industry also has its own teaching and examination department, which has various certifications on offer. One of the most common Microsoft certifications which are sought by many is the MCTS Training.

MCTS fundamentally stands for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Post the attainment of this certification, a candidate is talented to display expertise in designing and implementing infrastructure Microsoft Windows 2000 server. Candidates setting up to go in for this certification should at least have one to two years of experience designing, configuring, and installing and troubleshooting network systems. The MCTS certification is quite tough to achieve, and is meant only for the solemn minded. This is the only cause why unlike many other kinds of certifications, this one demands some experience in the candidate side view.

After captivating the path of a basic MCTS certification, you have the option to choose a kind of specialization. This would detectably depend on your interests as well as your career goals and targets. The good thing in taking the MCTS certification from Microsoft MCITP Training is that you will have a reputed and respected name on your CV, which will give you an edge over the others when you look for a spirited job profile.

Information of all kinds such as examination course outline, course material, exam schedules, marking scheme etc. is all regularly updated on the Microsoft website. One can always find the applicable information there, along with a list of FAQs too.

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How To Install Windows 7 From Usb? Microsoft Launches A New Utility

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How To Install Windows 7 From Usb? Microsoft Launches A New Utility

Windows installation, in case of DVD Drive Failure, has always been a big issue. I remember when my DVD Drive stopped working once and my laptop window was corrupted by some virus attack. It took me about 3 days on searching on the net, trying to find a tool to install my windows from USB Microsoft MCTS Training.

Almost every tool I search for installing windows was either paid tool or was only USB bootable, and did not helped me in installing my windows. At a point I managed to copy all of my windows files to USB and make it bootable but as there are a lot of installation files, it took too much time even to start the installation process. After wasting my 3 days, I finally bought an IDE to USB cable, attached it with an External DVD Drive which was being powered up by a PC’s power supply. And finally after all my efforts, I was able to install windows with an external DVD Drive.
This kept me thinking for a while that how difficult it could be for Novice users to install windows on their laptop in case of DVD Drive failure. Even though every laptop comes with a system restore option, but what if it also get corrupts and DVD Drive is not working.
After a long time it seems that Microsoft also has realized this issue. They recently have launched Windows 7 USB/DVD tool, which allows you to take an ISO image and turn it into bootable flash drive.

This USB windows installer is created not only for laptop users but for any one that purchased Windows 7 from Microsoft official website. This tool allows you to create an ISO copy of your windows 7 on a USB flash or on DVD Microsoft MCITP Training.

During Windows 7 purchasing from Microsoft store, you have the option to download and ISO file or compressed file. The Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO on a USB flash drive or DVD. Making a USB flash drive bootable is real easy. Just download the ISO file and run the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. Once it is done you will have the option to install your Windows 7 directly from USB. And ass the ISO file is compressed, the process will take lot less time than uncompressed windows files on your USB from any other USB bootable tool.
Please note that if you use a Flash Drive, It must have at least 4GB space to copy the complete compressed ISO File.
To install the Windows 7 all you need to do is to insert the USB flash drive to your USB port or insert your DVD into your DVD drive and run setup.exe from the root folder of the drive. You also will have to select your USB or DVD drive as your primary bootable option during setup.
The Final Part: You might be wondering that what is so cool about this tool. The coolest part of this entire story is that this software has been launched as open source. Microsoft had concerns about this project to be launched as open source. It was first launched with program self closure source and without proper documentation, but later with an explanation of “Internal Mistake” it was re-launched again and declared as open source for all to use.

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Why Wd Caviar Black Is Best

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Why Wd Caviar Black Is Best
Western Digital Corporation is well known for its products. They are known for the quality of their products, for the strength and for the consistency of their products. People buy western digital products just by their name and when it comes to hard drives western digital is a company on which a person can trust by closing eyes as well. Since ages they have never compromised with their quality and retained it as it is Microsoft MCTS Training.

People have no doubts on the product if it is having the label of western digital. Western digital products are easily available in the markets. They believe in doing continues innovations and due to this reason they keep on adding new products in their product lists. They spend a considerable amount of money in their research and development department so as to provide new features to their consumers.

WD caviar black is a popular product of western digital owing to its following features.

Great electronic and strong mechanical architecture.

It has dual processor. This in turn maximizes performance.

Recording head of this hard drive never touches media of the disk due to which recording media and head has less wear. It gives better protection to the drive as well.

WD Caviar Black has a bigger cache up to sixty four MB so as to improve performance.

They are having massive capacity to store a large amount of data.

They are having 2 Terabyte capacities.

WD Caviar Black comes with a warranty of five years.

These hard disk drives are tried and tested many times in their FIT lab. This is done to ensure that western digital hard disk drive will perform well on consumers computers.

It has dual actuator technology.

Motor shaft is present on both ends. This in turn stabilize platters and reduce vibrations that are induced due to system while writing and reading operations.

WD Caviar Black is ideal for all applications including video editing, photo editing and operations related to multimedia.

All the above features are responsible for WD Caviar Black popularity.

A question can come in consumers mind that how western digital drives protect their data. Hard disk drives of western digital are coming up with data lifeguard tools. These data lifeguard tools are the utilities that make hard disk drive installation, repair and diagnostic simple and tension free. Data lifeguard is a feature which is used for data protection. It includes shock protection as well. It finds, detects and isolates problems. Not only this, it tries to repair all the problems that develop on the hard drive over the life time Microsoft MCITP Training.

Shock guard technology protects the disk from damage due to vibrations and bumps when the hard disk is working. It is due to this technology western digital caviar drives are having shock specifications.

So, one can see how much pains western digital is taking to provide a nice, genuine and great product to its consumers. They feel that customer money is important and they should not waste it and should pay full price for their money.

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Using IPv6 in Windows Server 2008

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Using IPv6 in Windows Server 2008
IPv6 Addresses problems in IPv4

* Automatic Address Configuration – Stateful hosts use DHCPv6. Stateless hosts configure themselves.
* Header Size – Non-essential and optional fields are found in extension headers.
* Routing Table Size – Designed to be more efficient.
* Network Level Security – IPSec is now mandatory.
* Real Time Data Delivery – payload encryption does not affect QoS.
* Removal of Broadcast Traffic – Neighbour discovery replaces ARP broadcasts, ICMPv4, Router Discovery and ICMPv4 redirect messages.
* IPV6 Address Structure
* IPv6 Address Syntax

IPv6 is a 128-address divided into 16-bit boundaries. Each 16 bit block is converted to a 4 bit hex number and colons are used to separate the bits. Leading zeros can be removed and long sequences of zeros can be compressed. For example 21cd:0048:0000:0000:03ac:ae45:8e4c can be expressed as 21cd:48::3ac:ae45:8e4c
IPv6 Address Prefix

Like we do in IPv4 and express subnets as 192.168.12.0/24, we can also do this in IPv6 and would look like 21cd:53::/64
IPv6 Address Types

* Unicast
* Multicast
* Anycast

IPv6 Unicast Addresses

* Global
* Link-Local
* Site-Local
* Special
* Network Service Access Point and Internet Packet Exchange mapped addresses Microsoft MCTS Training

Planning an IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategy

Those Strategies include:

* Dual Stack Transition
* Configured Tunneling Transition
* Automatic Tunneling
* 6to4
* Teredo
* Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol

Implementing IPv4-to-IPv6 Compatibility

* IPv4 Compatible Address
* IPv4 Mapped Address
* Teredo Address
* ISATAP Addresses

Using IPv6 Tools

Ping works by specifying the IPv6 address. IPconfig /all will show you the IPv6 setting and IPv4 settings. Netsh interface ipv6 – ipv6 added to netsh interface commands specifies the IPv6 stack
Configuring Clients through DHCPv6

Configuring a DHCPv6 scope is very much the same as configuring an IPv4 DHCP scope. Page 87 of the book goes through a great description of configuring DHCPv6. Remember the 80/20 rule.
Planning an IPv6 Network

There are three steps to planning your IPv6 network. First step is to identify and analyze hardware requirements. Look at all the hardware you have and identify if it will all work with IPv6. If not, will you replace this hardware or continue to support the hardware.

The second step is to analyze software and application requirements Microsoft MCITP Certification. Does everything work with IPv6? If not, how will you support these applications?

Finally your last step is to document the requirements. How many sites are there, how should the prefix allocation be delegated, etc. These three steps will take a lot of time but once complete, you can draw up the project plan. Project planning isn’t covered in this lesson.

That’s all for Chapter 2, Lesson 1. There is a lot of information to digest there and for most of us, its relatively new and will take some time work through and understand it. Lesson 2 of the chapter covers Configuring DNS.

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Database Availability Group Compression & Encryption

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Database Availability Group Compression & Encryption
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010’s database availability groups (DAGs) support encryption and compression of the email data they pass around as part of the seeding and replication process. How do these capabilities work?

The short answer is, “It’s a Windows thing.” Windows has long included a set of base classes for encryption and authentication. (If you’re old enough, you might remember that the full-strength version of Windows encryption couldn’t be exported to some countries.) Rather than re-invent the wheel, Exchange uses the encryption and signing methods provided by Windows whenever possible. In the case of SSL/TLS, Exchange can do much of its own certificate management—including generating self-signed certificates—but all of the actual crypto is done by Windows Microsoft MCTS Training.

Exchange also uses Windows’ authentication methods. Windows authentication services are provided by modules known as Security Support Providers (SSP). These SSPs provide interfaces that let clients encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify data by using a particular set of security protocols. There are SSPs for Kerberos and NTLM. For DAG encryption, Exchange uses the Kerberos SSP. After two applications or endpoints have completed a handshake process to let them come up with a shared encryption key, they can both make calls to the SSPs on their local machines to process the data blocks.

Exchange always tries to pick the strongest possible encryption algorithm from the list of those supported by the host OS. For Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2, that means the 256-bit version of the US Federal Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), ideally with Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) used as a Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC). On the compression front, DAGs use the familiar LZ77 algorithm, which is used to compress GIF files and in tons of other places. Microsoft calls its implementation “XPRESS,” for some reason that I haven’t been able to figure out; Microsoft uses this implementation in a few other products besides Exchange.

Outlook uses many of these same mechanisms; for example, MAPI RPC compression between Exchange and Outlook uses XPRESS, and MAPI RPC encryption can use the Kerberos SSP (or the NTLM SSP, which isn’t available for DAGs.) That’s no big surprise, given that these capabilities are built into Windows. Why reinvent the wheel Microsoft MCITP Training?

To control these options in a live DAG, Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup is your friend. By default, newly created DAGs use encryption only when replicating across different subnets, with no encryption used during seeding operations. You can change this setting with the -NetworkEncryption switch; just set it to Enabled instead of InterSubnetOnly. In like manner, compression is normally enabled only for cross-subnet replication, but the -NetworkCompression switch lets you fix that right up.

Note that these properties are associated with the DAG itself, not the underlying DAG network. For that reason, you can set these properties only when the DAG (and its underlying physical nodes) are up—the settings are node-level properties.

Alert readers will note that I haven’t made any mention of using IPsec, one of my favorite technologies, to encrypt communications between DAG members. What about using IPsec with DAGs? That’s a topic for another UPDATE!

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Internet Explorer 8 Comes On Strong in May

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Internet Explorer 8 Comes On Strong in May
On Tuesday, NetApplications released its May 2010 browser usage share report, and some interesting statistics emerge: Though usage of all versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser remained flat, month over month, the very latest version—IE 8—grew at a higher rate than any of its competitors, including industry darling Google Chrome. IE 8 is now used by 29 percent of all web surfers, and over 31 percent of all Windows users Microsoft MCITP Certification.

“In a world of choice, IE 8 is the browser more individuals are choosing every single day, at rates that exceed any competing browser,” a Microsoft spokesperson said. “IE 8 is leading the pack: It’s the fastest growing browser in history and is currently number one across Windows and all OSs. Most important, this past month more users chose IE 8 than Chrome or Firefox. And with the IE 9 platform preview receiving over a million downloads thus far, IE is positioned for a strong future.”

IE 8’s strong showing flies in the face of continued bad news for Microsoft’s browsers, which overall have been on a downward slide for quite some time. But IE held steady between April and May, overall, and as noted previously, it is still the market leader. In fact, it’s not even close. According to NPD, IE controls 60 percent of the market for browsers worldwide, compared with 24 percent for Firefox, 7 percent for Chrome, and 5 percent for Apple Safari, Microsoft MCTS Training.

IE 8 usage grew .81 percent in the month, two and a half times the rate of the next fastest growing browser, Chrome, which grew .32 percent. Firefox usage fell slightly over the month, as the browser continues to miss the vaunted 25 percent mark.

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Remotely Connect to USB Devices

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Remotely Connect to USB Devices
Have you ever had a need to share files or a device with another computer that’s in another city, state, or country? In the case of files, you probably used an FTP, either one of the free solutions (such as FileFlyer) or over your own domain Microsoft MCTS Training.

But what if you could remotely access another computer’s USB devices? With such a technology, you could:

· Print to someone else’s USB printer.

· Use a USB hard drive to share files with other computers.

· Share one scanner or fax machine across a small office.

OK, so perhaps it’s a selective bunch that has such a need and doesn’t already have a shared network with a networked printer/scanner, but if you’re one of them, you might want to check out USB to Ethernet Connector from Eltima Software. The product is quite simple: you connect to another computer (via VPN, a router, etc.), and then you can “share” any device connected by USB. While sharing, that device becomes inaccessible to you, but the other computer can access it. (You can build this connection across any number of computers, but only one computer can access the device at a time. Sharing is caring.)

There are some limitations and concerns. The program only works with USB devices, so you could only use an external hard drive or a USB printer or scanner, for instance. As a long-term solution for a small/virtual business, it could be frustrating since you have to share the devices one by one.

USB to Ethernet Connector starts at $89.95 per computer to share one device. Sharing more than one device is an additional cost. To learn more, visit the Eltima Software website Microsoft MCITP Certification.