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Windows Server 2008 "How Do I?" Videos

These short videos focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them in Windows Server 2008. Subscribe to the Windows Server 2008 videos RSS feed to see new content every month.

On this page:

Active Directory
Application Server
Backup and Recovery
Failover Clusters
Hyper-V
Management and Server Manager

Networking
Network Policy and Access Services
Performance and Reliability
Security and Protection
Windows Deployment Services

Application Server

Install Exchange 2007 Prerequisites for Windows Server 2008
(10:23)

Backup and Recovery

Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup
(11:29)

Failover Clusters

The 10 Most Important Things About Failover Clustering
(36:07)

Active Directory

Protecting a Word Document with AD RMS
(05:13)

Data Management using Windows Server 2008 R2
(12:12)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look- System Health Report
(4:36)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - Group Policy Management
(5:33)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - Server Core
(5:07)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - Active Directory Recycle Bin
(6:25)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - PowerShell V2
(9:11)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - Active Directory Administrative Center
(6:25)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look- Installing the Migration Tools
(7:33)

How Do I: AD RMS with AD FS Identity Federation: Verifying AD RMS and AD FS Functionality?
(3:47)

How Do I: AD RMS with AD FS Identity Federation: Configuring AD RMS to Work with AD FS?
(4:05)

How Do I: AD RMS with AD FS Identity Federation: Installing and Configuring AD FS ?
(14:08)

How Do I: Activate AD RMS in Windows Mobile?
(2:24)

Using AD RMS to Protect Documents in a SharePoint Document Library
(9:08)

Hyper-V

NAT Hyper-V
(4:58)

Server Core Hyper-V Prerequisites
(7:37)

Virtualization in Windows Server
(51:59)

How Do I: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
(13:54)

How Do I: Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to identify servers suitable for virtualization with Hyper-V?
(25:39)

How Do I: Implement Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V High Availability and Quick Migration?
(19:32)

How Do I: Build a highly available virtualization cluster with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V?
(15:27)

How Do I: Use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008?
(20:49)

Virtualized RHEL 5 on Hyper-V v2
(11:20)

Virtualized Ubuntu 9.10 on Hyper-V v2
(14:51)

Virtualized SLES 10.2 on Hyper-V v2
(17:40)

Management and Server Manager

Dynamic Partition: Windows Server
(50:40)

Managing Windows Server 2008 with Server Manager
(36:53)

Windows Server 2008 Server Core - Remote Management, Tips and Tricks
(26:18)

Windows Server 2008 Server Manager
(11:32)

Network Policy and Access Services

Allowing External Users to Manage IIS7 Web Applications
(10:16)

Using Group Policy in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
(18:06)

Using Group Policy with Windows and Windows Server 2008
(1:2:45)

Networking

Active Directory Domain Services in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
(48:08)

Enabling a Remote Workforce
(9:42)

Server Core Networking
(6:37)

How Do I: Provide users with seamless corporate network access from anywhere with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and DirectAccess ?
(30:30)

Performance and Reliability

10 Cool Things to do with the Powershell
(12:28)

Getting Started with Windows Server 2008 Server Core
(17:12)

Employing Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7 As a Next Generation Platform for SaaS Web Applications
(1:01:47)

Power Management: Windows Server
(41:45)

Server Core
(11:32)

Server Core Remote Management
(10:28)

What’s Up With Windows Server 2008
(59:32)

Windows Server 2008 Kernel Advances
(1:14:56)

Download Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster for IT Pros
(3:52)

Security and Protection

Creating a Read-only Domain Controller on Windows Server 2008 Core Using the Install From Media Option
(13:12)

Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers - Password Replication Policies
(4:58)

Securing Branch Office User Accounts
(12:8)

Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers – preparation and deployment
(22:30)

Windows Deployment Services

Managing Server Core Installation in Windows Server 2008
(26:17)

Modifying Boot Records in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Using BCDEDIT
(13:13)

Use Multicast Transmission to Deploy Multiple Clients
(16:23)

Server Core Activation
(5:36)

Server Core - Domain Join
(2:37)

Server Core Role Installation
(3:03)

Windows Server 2008 Deployment Overview
(1:5:14)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Quick Look - Best Practices Analyzers
(6:9)

How Do I: Reduce WAN costs with Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and BranchCache?
(26:21)

How Do I: Deploying Windows 7 using System Center Configuration Manager ?
(26:34)

How Do I: Running Hyper-V Server from a USB drive?
(15:49)

How Do I: Incident and Change Management with System Center Service Manager?
(17:41)

How Do I: Extending Microsoft System Centre Service Manager with a new Activity Class and form?
(07:08)

How Do I: Using Windows PowerShell V2 to manage active directory objects?
(22:07)

How Do I: Add additional Management Packs to System Center Operations Manager 2007?
(10:35)

How Do I: Using Windows PowerShell V2 to remotely manage computers?
(15:18)

How Do I: Using Group Policy to manage services and enable remote management?
(11:13)

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