Businesses today grow and change at a frantic pace, making Active Directory (AD) management one of the most time-consuming IT tasks. AD administrators struggle to keep up with requests to create, change or remove user access to various network resources. 

In this presentation transcript, IT author Jonathan Hassell walks you through some of the key changes made to R2 in three key areas: Active Directory, Group Policy and Terminal Services. 

This webcast explores the key changes made to Windows Server 2008 R2 in Active Directory, Group Policy and Terminal Services. Discover how your organization can leverage these improvements for reduced costs, increased control and improved efficiency. 

Active Directory certainly gets plenty of attention when it comes to high-profile issues like security, compliance, auditing, and so forth—but what about all of the work you do managing AD on a day-to-day basis? Learn how Quest ActiveRoles Server (ARS)makes AD administration more efficient, automated, consistent, powerful and faster. 

EMC® RepliStor® provides server-based local and remote asynchronous replication for Microsoft Windows environments. RepliStor replicates files, directories, volumes, and shares – on a schedule or in real time – from a source server to a target server or servers using TCP/IP connectivity, regardless of data location. 

This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs. 

This case study provides IT professionals and technical decision makers working in large enterprises with the information they need to plan and deploy server virtualization by using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. 

Watch this video to learn how Franklin Covey, a training and consulting services organization that separated into two different companies, was able to implement Microsoft virtualization solutions in both companies to effectively recreate the IT environment across both for half the anticipated cost. 

Active Directory becomes very complex to manage in Windows networks. Administrators leave, users are given elevated privileges, applications require special accounts - very soon you have an Active Directory full of security weaknesses. 

If users are the lynchpin of Identity Management, then groups are the catalyst to security and productivity. Your organization wants to provision users into Active Directory and keep that data accurate. When an organization provisions a user, they want them to be automatically added to the correct security groups and distribution lists. 

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