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Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos

Learn more about Microsoft products such as SQL Server, Security, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint with these "How Do I?" videos. TechNet has assembled these short videos for customers to learn how to accomplish specific tasks with Microsoft products: step-by-step. Subscribe to the TechNet videos RSS feed to learn about new videos.

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Featured Video

Sharepoint Online Setup
In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to configure a SharePoint site collection using Microsoft Online Services. Topics include how to provision a new site collection, how to allocate space to the site collection, and how to add users to the site collection.

Presented by Marc Hoppers
Tuesday Oct 28, 2008

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Deployment How-to Videos

How Do I: Use VRTA and Netmon to Check my Website’s Performance?

How Do I: Use VRTA and Netmon to Check my Website’s Performance?
This video shows you how to use Virtual Roundtrip Analyzer to check performance of your website or web application, and how to trace frames in Network Monitor so you can see what is going on in the network layer when you send a request, and get the response back from the server.
Wednesday, Jul 1

How Do I: Get Started with xPerf and xPerfview to Analyze Server Performance?

How Do I: Get Started with xPerf and xPerfview to Analyze Server Performance?
This video shows you how to use xPerf to capture User and kernel events on your server while running your application, and how to visually analyze these events using xPerfview. You will be able to see how your application utilizes CPU, and disk, and memory, and network to find out any performance issues with these easy-to-use powerful tools.
Monday, May 18

How Do I: Fully utilize IIS Compression for my site?

How Do I: Fully utilize IIS Compression for my site?
It's too easy to configure wrong IIS compression on an IIS 6.0 server. This walkthrough shows how to properly configure compression for your site and verify those changes. The results can improve the performance of your site.
Friday, Mar 13

Internet Explorer How-to Videos

Web Slices

Web Slices
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8’s Web Slices - a technology that allow users to subscribe to snippets of any page and view them by using the Favorites toolbar. The video will show how to create and use Web Slices.
Monday, Apr 13

HTML 5 Networking Events

HTML 5 Networking Events
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8’s new support for the networking events, from the W3C’s HTML 5 working draft, including the onHashChange, onOnline, and onOffline events.
Monday, Apr 13

InPrivate Browsing

InPrivate Browsing
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8's support InPrivate Browsing mode and discusses the impact on your users' experience for your website and how to work with InPrivate Browsing mode.
Monday, Apr 13

Internet Explorer 8 Security Series Videos

Enhanced Delete Browsing History

Enhanced Delete Browsing History
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8 and its newly enhanced Delete Browsing History, which provides simple checkbox control over which types of data are to be removed while retaining your favorite sites settings.
Friday, Jul 3

Domain Highlighting

Domain Highlighting
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8 and its new Domain Highlighting feature and how it helps protect users against accidental information disclosure while browsing the Internet.
Friday, Jun 5

Cross Site Scripting Filter

Cross Site Scripting Filter
In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8 and its new Cross Site Scripting filter and how it can help reduce the risk of browsing websites that may be compromised with malicious cross site attacks.
Thursday, Jun 4

Exchange How-to Videos

How Do I: Configure Security Policies on my Windows Mobile Devices Using Exchange 2007?

How Do I: Configure Security Policies on my Windows Mobile Devices Using Exchange 2007?
With more users carrying smart phones, the possibilities of sensitive data being compromised as a result of a device being lost is a growing concern for IT Pros. Exchange 2007 provides a no cost option for securing Windows Mobile devices through the use of Active Sync Policies. In this video Gordon Ryan steps through the process the of creating a policy and assigning it to a user.
Thursday, Mar 5

Remotely Wipe a Windows Mobile Device if an Employee Loses it

Remotely Wipe a Windows Mobile Device if an Employee Loses it
Employees' losing mobile devices is a concern for any IT Pro, but with Exchange 2007 and Windows Mobile 6, you remote wipe a lost device and know that the data has been removed. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to do this using Outlook Web Access and the Exchange graphical and Powershell administration tools.
Tuesday, Feb 17

Incoming E-mail Scan

Incoming E-mail Scan
Join Gordon Ryan as he shows how to configure Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server to scan incoming and outgoing emails. In this video he shows how to configure file and keyword filters as well as configuring notifications.
Tuesday, Jan 13

Exchange Online How-to Videos

Exchange Online administration

Exchange Online administration
In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to use the Exchange Administration features provided in Microsoft Online Services. Topics include, adding and editing users, creating distribution lists, setting ups safe senders and blocked senders.
Tuesday, Oct 28

Forefront Videos

How Do I: Manage the Forefront Security for SharePoint Quarantine and Incidents Databases?

How Do I: Manage the Forefront Security for SharePoint Quarantine and Incidents Databases?
In this video, Gordon Ryan shows how to manage the incident and quarantine databases in Forefront Security for SharePoint. He walks through the process of exporting and moving the database files as well as taking files out of quarantine.
Wednesday, Mar 18

How Do I: Configure Forefront Security for SharePoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Inappropriate Content?

How Do I: Configure Forefront Security for SharePoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Inappropriate Content?
In an increasingly litigious world, it is essential that IT Pros have the ability to block inappropriate content from being stored on corporate servers. By implementing Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint, IT Pros have the ability to create key word lists and then block documents from being uploaded that contain the words specified. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to do this as well as how to report on documents that are being uploaded or downloaded, but not actually block their transfer.
Tuesday, Mar 17

How Do I: Configure a Manual Scan Job in Forefront Security for SharePoint?

How Do I: Configure a Manual Scan Job in Forefront Security for SharePoint?
Once you have installed Forefront Security for SharePoint, one of the first things you should be doing is performing a scan of your document libraries. In this video, Gordon Ryan walks you through the process of configuring a manual scan job in Forefront Security for SharePoint.
Tuesday, Mar 17

Microsoft Online How-to Videos

Enable Incoming Email by Creating an MX Record?

Enable Incoming Email by Creating an MX Record?
This video shows how to create an MX record to enable inbound email within Microsoft Online Services This demo shows how to: - Run the Enable inbound email wizard - Set a domain as an authoritative domain within Microsoft Online Services - Create and MX Record
Thursday, Jun 25

Create a Trial Microsoft Online Services Account

Create a Trial Microsoft Online Services Account
This video shows how to create a trial Business Productivity Online Suite account with Microsoft Online Services This demo shows how to: - Create a Live ID account - Use the LiveID to create a trial MOS account - How to select the Business Productivity Online Suite as the trial product - How to login to the MOS Admin portal after activating the trial account
Tuesday, Jun 2

Setup and Verify a Domain

Setup and Verify a Domain
This video shows how to complete the steps required to add and verify a domain in Microsoft Online Services This demo shows how to: - Add a domain to Microsoft Online Services - Add a CNAME alias to the domain within a domain registrar account - Run the Domain Verification Wizard within Microsoft Online Services
Tuesday, Jun 2

Office Communications Server How-to Videos

How Do I: Change or Enable the External Reverse Proxy URL for OCS?

How Do I: Change or Enable the External Reverse Proxy URL for OCS?
Changing the reverse proxy or forgetting to enable it during setup may lead to untold frustration during both external and federated Communicator and LiveMeeting Client access. Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to solve this issue using a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 command line utility.
Tuesday, Jan 6

How Do I: Get Started with Meeting and Voice Policies in OCS?

How Do I: Get Started with Meeting and Voice Policies in OCS?
Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to get started with both Meeting and Voice Policies in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Tuesday, Jan 6

How Do I: Enable Anonymous and Federated Users in OCS?

How Do I: Enable Anonymous and Federated Users in OCS?
Join Nicolas Blank as he demonstrates how to enables two massively useful features in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Anonymous and Federated Live Meeting Users as well as Federation for Instant Messaging users.
Tuesday, Jan 6

Script Center How-to Videos

Power Shell Variables

Power Shell Variables
In this video Nicholas Blank shows us the flexibility of using variables in PowerShell
Wednesday, Dec 17

Powershell Scripts and the Command Line

Powershell Scripts and the Command Line
In this video Nicolas Blank discusses command line arguments in functions and scripts.
Tuesday, Oct 7

Power Shell and WMI

Power Shell and WMI
In this video Nicholas Blank shows us how easy it is to use WMI in PowerShell.
Thursday, Oct 2

Security Videos

How Do I: Configure Forefront Server Security for Sharepoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Specific File Types?

How Do I: Configure Forefront Server Security for Sharepoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Specific File Types?
As users embrace Sharepoint, IT Pros need to be able control the type of files that they are uploading. While Sharepoint provides the ability to block files based on their extension, Forefront Security for Sharepoint takes this one step further and inspects the file headers so that renaming a file won't allow a user to bypass the blocks. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to configure file blocking in Forefront Security for Sharepoint.
Tuesday, Mar 10

Jeff Jones and Thomas Dawkins (Part 2)

Jeff Jones and Thomas Dawkins (Part 2)
Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) 4.0 demo of the new and improved features that give customers and partners the right tools to improve the security state of their business IT infrastructure.
Monday, Dec 1

Jeff Jones and Thomas Dawkins (Part 1)

Jeff Jones and Thomas Dawkins (Part 1)
Thomas Dawkins on Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and the new release of Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) 4.0.
Monday, Dec 1

SharePoint Server How-to Videos

How Do I: Use the Business Data Catalog?

How Do I: Use the Business Data Catalog?
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables you to present line-of-business data within MOSS. In this video, Rob Windsor will demonstrate how to configure a BDC Application and how to use external data with Web Parts, Lists and Enterprise Search.
Monday, May 18

How Do I: How Do I: Configure Keywords and Best Bets?

How Do I: How Do I: Configure Keywords and Best Bets?
In this video, Hilton Giesenow from The Moss Show (http://www.TheMossShow.com/) examines how to enhance the standard Microsoft Office SharePoint Server search results to include additional rich contextual information related to the search. The video covers both the Keywords functionality, which includes descriptions and additional information related to the search term, as well as "Best Bets" - a suggested list of relevant links.
Thursday, May 14

How Do I: Configure Records Center?

How Do I: Configure Records Center?
Join Hilton Giesenow as he explores how to create a Records Center site within your site collection and how to configure the records management types and record routing for your SharePoint farm.
Tuesday, Mar 10

SQL Server How-to Videos

How Do I: Using the HierarchyID Data Type in SQL Server 2008 to manage data hierarchies?

How Do I: Using the HierarchyID Data Type in SQL Server 2008 to manage data hierarchies?
Managing hierarchies in Information Systems has long been a challenge to most information systems professionals. The issues are simple, but the implementation of hierarchies within databases is complex and often onerous. The HierarchyID datatype introduced in SQL Server 2008 provides a new way to deal with these types of issues. In this video, Max Adams will introduce this new HierarchyID Datatype and examine how to:
- Create tables that implement this datatype
- Populate the table with data using CTE
- Query the table using some of the inherent functions available for the HierarchyID Datatype.
Friday, Jun 19

How Do I: Profile Data with the Data Profiling Task and Viewer
Data quality is important to every business. Using the SQL Server 2008 Data Profiling task computes statistics about the data in a database to spot incorrect values. The Data Profiling viewer allows you to view the generated statistics. In this video Scott Golightly shows how to create the data profile and how to review the results.
Thursday, Jun 18

How Do I: Import Text Files with SQL Server Integration Services?

How Do I: Import Text Files with SQL Server Integration Services?
Many programs produce logs as plain text files. Sometimes these log files need to be imported into SQL Server to allow further analysis of the data. In this video Scott Golightly shows how to use SQL Server Integration Services to import text files into SQL Server
Wednesday, Jun 17

System Center How-to Videos

How Do I: Install Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008?

How Do I: Install Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008?
With the ability to manage virtualization hosts running Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server as well as VMWare servers, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides IT Pros with a cost effective single solution for both homogenous and heterogeneous virtualization environments. In this video, Gordon Ryan takes you through the initial installation of the Virtual Machine Manager Server, console and Self Service portal.
Wednesday, Mar 25

DPM 2007 SP1 - How does DPM really work

DPM 2007 SP1 - How does DPM really work
With all of the excitement around DPM 2007 and Service Pack 1, we wanted to take the opportunity to get under the covers and really talk about how DPM replicates data.
Thursday, Jan 15

DPM 2007 SP1 - how to do individual item restore for Exchange

DPM 2007 SP1 - how to do individual item restore for Exchange
This video continues the series of feature-level podcasts on DPM 2007, this week focusing on Exchange Server and item level restore. While DPM 2007 natively protects Exchange Storage Groups, and restores both SG's and DB's - it does not directly restore mailboxes or individual items. For granluar recovery, we leverage the Recovery Storage Group (RSG), as prescribed by the Exchange product team. Direct individual item restore is not supported by Exchange without using the Recovery Storage Group (RSG).
Friday, Dec 26

Virtualization How-to Videos

How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management console and client?

How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management console and client?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the second of a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to install and configure the MEDV management console on Windows Vista. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Friday, Jun 26

How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?

How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?
With virtualised workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. Whilst large companies can use products such as System Center Data Protection Manager to back up multiple servers, that may not always be appropriate for and, in this video, Mark Wilson takes a look at backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows Server Backup utility provided with Windows Server 2008.
Sunday, Jun 21

How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?

How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
Not all virtualisation deployments run on huge farms of clustered servers. In this video, Mark Wilson shows how to create a failover cluster for high availability with both nodes running virtualised on Hyper-V.
Thursday, Jun 18

Windows Client How-to Videos

Windows Vista in Midize Business (Overview)

Windows Vista in Midize Business (Overview)
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal discusses some of the drivers and benefits to implementing Windows Vista in a midsize business environment.He discusses the benefits regarding mobility, desktop optimization, search, security, and compliance.
Tuesday, Feb 17

Windows Vista: Total Cost of Ownership Benefits

Windows Vista: Total Cost of Ownership Benefits
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal discusses some of the benefits of deploying Windows Vista with regard to total cost of ownership (TCO). Topics discussed include the benefits of a single image, the new Windows Vista Backup and Restore Center, and new and improved deployment and management tools.
Tuesday, Feb 17

A Day in the Life: Windows Vista Productivity

A Day in the Life: Windows Vista Productivity
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal takes you on a journey through the tools that you will use as an administrator on a daily basis to improve your productivity on a Windows Vista machine. Learn about the new integrated search, Windows Aero, sidebar gadgets, Group Policy tools, and more.
Tuesday, Feb 17

Windows Server 2008 How-to Videos

Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup

Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup
With virtualised workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. Whilst large companies can use products such as System Center Data Protection Manager to back up multiple servers, that may not always be appropriate for and, in this video, Mark Wilson takes a look at backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows Server Backup utility provided with Windows Server 2008.
Sunday, Jun 21

Modifying Boot Records in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Using BCDEDIT

Modifying Boot Records in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Using BCDEDIT
In this video, Kyle Rosenthal steps through the new boot configuration tool: BCDEDIT. He will demonstrate how to view boot records, create new entries, modify settings, and export for back up the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store.
Monday, Feb 16

Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers - Password Replication Policies

Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers - Password Replication Policies
Read-only domain controllers (RODCs) are a new feature in Windows Server 2008 allowing domain controllers to be deployed in locations where security might otherwise be a concern (e.g. branch offices). In this video Mark Wilson takes a look at the password replication policies that are used to control credentials stored on RODCs.
Wednesday, Feb 11

Windows Server Terminal Services How-to Videos

Terminal Services - Overview

Terminal Services - Overview
In this video, Matt Hester gives you a general overview of the new features available with Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Terminal Services - TS Gateway Server

Terminal Services - TS Gateway Server
In this video, Matt Hester talks about TS Gateway, which enables a secure scenario and authorizes remote users to connect to resources on another network.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Terminal Services - RemoteApp

Terminal Services - RemoteApp
In this video, Matt Hester talks about the RemoteApp capabilities in Terminal Services that allow us to share out applications across the different areas in our environment.
Tuesday, Jan 15

Windows SharePoint Services How-to Videos

How Do I: Administer My SharePoint Farm Using Windows PowerShell?

How Do I: Administer My SharePoint Farm Using Windows PowerShell?
PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation, administrator-focused command-line scripting environment. Providing for full access to the SharePoint API, PowerShell unlocks the potential to interact directly with SharePoint to manipulate web applications, site collections, sites, lists and more. In addition, the ability to script these commands and compile a toolbox of these scripts makes for an improved experience in administering Windows SharePoint Server. In this video, Hilton Giesenow (http://hilton.giesenow.com/) looks at how to get started with PowerShell and SharePoint, and takes us through a few sample site collection, list and web application commands. My site: http://www.TheMossShow.com/
Wednesday, May 20

How Do I: Add Forms-Based to an existing Windows Authentication Site?

How Do I: Add Forms-Based to an existing Windows Authentication Site?
Windows SharePoint Services allows you to combine multiple authentication and user management systems in the same web application, each with their own unique URL. This allows you, for instance, to have an internal- and external-facing Intranet , or even an Extranet running within the same site collection. In this video, Hilton Giesenow (http://hilton.giesenow.com) takes you through adding Forms-Based Authentication (FBA) to an existing Windows-based authentication WSS site. My site: http://www.TheMossShow.com/
Wednesday, May 20

How Do I: Configure Forefront Server Security for Sharepoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Specific File Types?

How Do I: Configure Forefront Server Security for Sharepoint to Block Uploading and Downloading of Specific File Types?
As users embrace Sharepoint, IT Pros need to be able control the type of files that they are uploading. While Sharepoint provides the ability to block files based on their extension, Forefront Security for Sharepoint takes this one step further and inspects the file headers so that renaming a file won't allow a user to bypass the blocks. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to configure file blocking in Forefront Security for Sharepoint.
Tuesday, Mar 10

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