Notes of an IT Pro
In Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, you could not switch between the Server Core and Server With A GUI options, post-installation. If you chose to install Server with a GUI (called Full Installation in 2008/2008R2) or Server Core, you…
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By utilizing NIC Teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), you can combine multiple network interface adapters to create a single logical NIC to provide fault tolerance or bandwidth aggregation for your network connections. Adapters that are members of…
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The fine-grained password policies feature was introduced in Windows Server 2008. It allowed organizations to define more than one password and account lockout policy in a single domain, and apply those policies to different sets of users. Prior to Windows…
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In the previous blog post we looked at how to retrieve values of user properties/attributes from Active Directory. We briefly even touched on how to retrieve group membership of users, and how to output this information in different formats, such…
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A PowerShell module for Active Directory was released with PowerShell 2.0, the version that shipped with Server 2008 R2. This module includes several cmdlets that let you work directly with Active Directory objects. In this blog post, we will look…
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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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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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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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If you connect to a remote machine through remote desktop protocol, you might not always know whether that machine is virtual or physical. If you would like to find out whether the machine you have connected to is virtual or…
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