SysAdmin Talk

Sometimes having a server that “does it all” is quite handy to have around. It may be for testing or development purposes, or perhaps it would be used as a small “all in one” company server. Microsoft do have a Small Business Edition version of Windows Server 2008 (SBS 2008) that can be used for this kind of purpose, but in some cases this solution may be a little overkill. That being said, here is a brief overview of how I configure a single Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard server to provide both a Domain Controller and RDS (formerly Terminal Services) role.

All users in your Exchange organization are automatically listed in the Global Address List. When you have multiple departments, or maybe multiple companies (sometime also referred to as organizations, but this has nothing to do with the Exchange organization) in your Exchange organization you may want to organize or split up the Address List.

In the previous part of this guide we looked at gaining a list of PST files and machines. In this, the final part of this series, we will look at how to import these into Exchange 2010.