The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory® Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.2 to migrate users, groups, service accounts, and computers between AD DS domains in different forests (inter-forest migration) or between AD DS domains in the same forest (intra-forest migration). ADMT can also perform security translation (to migrate local user profiles) when performing inter-forest migrations.

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The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in IIS servers, but at the time it noted that it wasn’t aware of anyone trying to exploit that particular weakness.

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Companies cannot survive without some form of data protection, so backup and storage management is an essential part of every data center.

Part of putting together a solution lies in Windows Server 2008′s new data management features. By probing under the surface, the CRN Test Center found some new and exciting features, techniques and tools that can help solution providers build robust data management solutions with the new Windows Server 2008.

We will take a look at how such a solution can be built in the areas of storage, backup, virtualization, application management and overall data management.

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Microsoft, which will release the latest update to its server software at an event here Feb. 27 titled “Heroes happen here,” has pushed back the release of Hyper-V and cut some of the features originally planned. While Windows Server 2008 will contain the beta bits for Hyper-V, the final product will be made available as an add-on later in 2008. But that decision is likely to delay enterprise adoptions of the new server.

“We do not expect to see enterprise deployments of Windows Server 2008 of any significance until the final version of Hyper-V is out,” James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, told eWEEK. But Microsoft has made early previews of the hypervisor available to most enterprises that want them, so that they can start getting familiar with it and determine whether it will meet their needs. “This is a trick they have learned from the Linux market,” Staten said.

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Windows Server 2008 brings many eagerly anticipated admin-pleasing features such as a stripped-down mode called “Server Core” that does away with many unnecessary features that are normally installed, and a new virtualization platform—”Hyper-V”—that should increase Microsoft’s foothold in this increasingly important market sector.

Windows Server 2008 wasn’t the only product to be launched today either; Visual Studio 2008 also saw its official launch, even though it has been finished and available since November, and some fanfare was made about SQL Server 2008, though that won’t be finished until later in the year.

Read the full story at Arstechnica.

Roy Illsley, senior research analyst at Butler Group, told silicon.com: “They’ve listened to people and put into 2008 the enhancements that the system administrators and people like that actually want to see in an operating system.”

He said: “I don’t see this as being a massive thing. It’s lots of little bits that have added up. They’ve put a lot more effort on the bits.” He added that the availability of a core version of the OS could be a significant benefit as it will require fewer patch updates and will be easier to manage due to its smaller footprint.

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The software will be bundled with Small Business Server and Essential Server 2008 editions, along with a one-year subscription to Forefront for Exchange. “We’ve taken a different tact on connecting subscription services with the core infrastructure,” VanRoekel said about the bundling.

I asked if Microsoft planned to extend Windows Live OneCare for Server bundling to the desktop.

“No. We’re not doing any client AV with this wave. We think that’s part of the partner opportunity with the product,” VanRoekel said.

The Microsoft senior director didn’t discuss discreet pricing, but Windows Live OneCare for Server would be part of the purchase price of the new small business and midmarket server software.

I asked about discreet pricing because Microsoft will offer the software for at least one other product: Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition.

“As far as other support across the server SKUs, I’m not part of that group, and they haven’t made announcements of that yet,” VanRoekel said. “But it’s something I definitely think that they’re looking at.