Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation Options
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…
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Configuring NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2
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…
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Fine-Grained Password Policies in Windows Server 2012 R2
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…
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Exporting multivalued attributes with Export-CSV cmdlet
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…
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Retrieving User properties from Active Directory
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…
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Configuring Remote Desktop Services Profile settings for users
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…
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Fine-Grained Password Policies in Windows Server 2008 R2
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…
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Windows 7 Password Expiry Email Notification
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…
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How to check if a machine is physical or virtual
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…
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