Notes of an IT Pro
A user profile describes the configuration for a specific user, including the user’s environment and preference settings. You can specify a Remote Desktop Services-specific profile path and home folder for a user connecting to a Remote Desktop Session Host server….
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This is a step-by-guide on how to install Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.2 on Windows Server 2012. Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows provides a comprehensive solution to storage management in an integrated graphical view. Veritas SFW lets you configure and manage…
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If you want to add redundancy to the DHCP server service in Windows Server 2008 R2, you have a few options. Such as installing two servers, where you split the scope among them, 50/50, 80/20 etc. Another option is to have…
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Group Policy preferences is a feature that was included with Server 2008, and has been a part of Windows Server ever since. In this blog post, we will look at how to map drives through Group Policy Preferences and item-level…
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Although the title of the post mentions migrating the file server role, its really rather about migrating the data from an old Server 2003 file server to a new 2008 R2 or 2012 file server. The procedure for moving the…
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Before Windows Server 2008, organizations had to rely on third-party products to define different password and account lockout policies for different sets of users in a domain. In Server 2000 and 2003, there could be only one password and account…
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This is a step-by-guide on how to install Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows provides a comprehensive solution to storage management in an integrated graphical view. Veritas SFW lets you configure and…
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In Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, you would get a notification at logon when (by default) 14 days remained until your Active Directory user’s password expired. In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has changed this feature….
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This is a step-by-step guide on how to set up a failover cluster in Windows Server 2012. First we will install the failover clustering feature, with the management tools. Then we will create the cluster, and finally we will install…
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When you move a folder within the same volume, NTFS permissions are supposed to be retained. As a matter of fact, that is the only way permissions can be retained during copy or move operations. If you move a folder to another volume,…
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