windows server
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Virtualization
VMware migration to Microsoft options
There has certainly been massive disruption in the VMware camp over the past several months. Now that the Broadcom purchase is final, Broadcom has introduced tectonic changes to VMware products, solutions, licensing, and even their partner program. It would be…
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ActiveDirectory
Active Directory Users and Computers: Ultimate Management an Security Guide
There are many tools to manage Active Directory. Let’s take a look at using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and see how you can use it to manage and secure your AD DS environment. Table of contentsWhat is Active…
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Windows
Windows Server DHCP VLAN Configuration: Detailed Guide
Network segmentation is a great way to compartmentalize the various networks you need to run in your environment. This provides many benefits from both a management and security perspective. When segmenting your networks, one of the things that you have…
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Windows Admin Center
Windows Admin Center Preview 2012 Released Download New Features
Unless you have had your proverbial head in the sand, you have no doubt at least played around with Windows Admin Center since its parallel release with Windows Server 2019. With the release of Windows Server 2022 looming on the…
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Windows
Share SSL Certificates Between Multiple IIS Servers with Centralized Certificates
Managing certificates is probably one of the most cumbersome and administratively burdensome tasks that IT admins have to carry out on a day-to-day basis. This is especially true if you have multiple web servers that may be forward facing in…
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Automation
Basic Windows Server Automation with Ansible
We have already looked at installing Ansible Tower for GUI administration of Ansible which we will go back to. I want to back up a little bit and cover working with Ansible from the command line, showing how easy it…
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vSphere 6
Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward. The installer in my case worked flawlessly and had no issues running the install wizard and getting the…
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Software
How to Clonezilla to Windows NFS share
Clonezilla is a great free utility to create and restore images for both Windows AND Linux computers and it works very well. So it gives you the flexibility to work with images across many platforms, making it the tool of…
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Windows
How to use Windows Server Backup to backup files
Backing up files using the builtin backup utility in Windows Server 2008 R2 is really a piece of cake. We will take you through the steps in the WBADMIN.MSC interface as to how you would go about backing up file(s)…
