Implementing DHCP Failover in Windows Server 2012 R2
The DHCP failover feature was introduced in Windows Server 2012. Prior to Server 2012, you had various options to implement fault tolerance for the DHCP server service, but…
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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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Enabling LDAPS with certificate from a 3rd party CA
Occasionally you will have to install appliances and applications, which will not utilize Kerberos, SASL or NTLM to communicate with Active Directory Domain Services. They…
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Assigning ownership of files and folders with Takeown.exe
In this blog post we will look at how to take ownership of files and folders, with the takeown.exe command. This can be useful in situations where you are unable to assign…
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Configure the Windows Firewall Log
By default logging is disabled for all network profiles in Windows Firewall. So if you want to log dropped packets, or successful connections, you will have to enable logging…
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Managing storage with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows III
This is part 3, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW. In this part we will look at how to create Dynamic Volumes, and the options available during…
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Managing storage with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows II
This is part 2, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW. In this part we will look at how to create Dynamic Disk Groups, and how to add Volume Manager…
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Managing storage with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows I
In this blog post we will look at managing storage with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows. This is part 1, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW.…
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