Migrating DHCP server in LIVE environment from Microsoft Windows 2003 Server to Microsoft Windows 2008 is not an easy task to do. You have to shutdown your old server to configure your new server. Let me share a very handy and built-in method to migrate your DHCP server from windows 2003 server to windows 2008 server. You can perform this task even in office hours without any service interruption, no down time scheduling. All the things including scope, reservations and server settings will me moved to your new server. Steps are given as under;

1. You need to log into your DHCP server (Old DHCP server running windows 2003) with your administrator account and run the under given command by using the CMD;

netsh dhcp server export c:\filename.txt all

The above command will take a complete backup of the DHCP server at the specified location.

2. Log into your new DHCP server (New DHCP server running windows 2008) with administrator privileges. Copy the above backed up file from the old server so that your can import that file into your new DHCP server that is already running DHCP role. I assume that you have copied the file to your C drive of 2008 server.

netsh dhcp server import c:\filename.txt all

You might get some kind confliction errors if you have some predefined settings in your new DHCP server. Nothing to worry about, just go into your new server and remove the default settings for the server. There might be already given DNS server that can conflict with your old settings.

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Open source has became the world’s largest community to offer a large number of software’s to perform daily tasks.  Let me share a list of ten most downloaded security applications from open source community;

Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware

1. ClamWin Free Antivirus

A very handy windows application that uses popular anti-virus engine ClamAV to detect viruses and spywares. It includes a scanning scheduler, automatic downloads, and a Microsoft Outlook plug-in. However, it does not provide real-time scanning; you’ll need to scan your files manually in order to be protected.

2. ClamAV

Most of the commercial and open-source products are based on the Clam Antivirus engine because of its light weight and efficient behavior. It is designed for protecting e-mail gateways, ClamAV offers automatic updates, a command line scanner, and many more. List of compatible operating systems is Unix, Linux and BSD.

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If you are a Linux lover but forced to work on windows environment specially on new family member of windows that’s windows7, you can now install a theme of Ubuntu on your windows 7 and use it like Linux.

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Most of the e-mail servers around the globe allows you to send e-mails with attachments approximately 20MB maximum. What if you like to send an e-mail with 50MB or 100MB attachment? Solution is provided by drop.io Outlook Plug-in.

Drop.in Outlook Plug-in

The simplest way to attach the files

No Registration Required

One Click Install

Its Free

Send Up to 100MB of files per e-mail

If you like to get more options like more capacity, you need to upgrade. A beta version of the drop.io Outlook Plug-in is ready for testing.

Download

Microsoft Security Essential is a great anti-virus and anti-spyware software. I found this software more efficient,  light weight and easy to use. Now coming back to original point I am going to discuss a very common problem that can happen anytime in windows. I hope most of the people new and seen this error message that on startup of windows system says “at least one service is disabled”. This can cause lots of problems in most of the programs running on windows Like I said in the title “Microsoft Security Essential Update Error”.

 Error Code: 0×80070422

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