Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this article, I am going to show you how to Join your Nano Server to the domain. We can only join your Nano Server to the domain once it has an IP address and DNS set up. You can view how to do that here. Now we have our Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is Nano Server? Nano Server is a new installation option in Windows Server 2016, which cannot be installed the normal way. Nano Server is an operating system optimised for private clouds and data centres and can only be administered remotely. It is similar to Windows Server Core, but is Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is Azure Server Management Tools? Azure server management tools is an Azure service that is basically a Html 5 web based GUI and command line tool that allows you to manage your on-prem Windows Servers. This comes in very handy when you need to manage headless servers such as Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that Microsoft Ignite is over and I have had a chance to catch up with some of the information. I thought I would post a list of what’s new and updated in Hyper-V 2016. Most of this has me excited for what Microsoft is doing and I will be Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have noticed that there is a lot of confusion around how to name an Active Directory Domain primarily because the best practices have changed. Picking a name for your Active Directory Domain should be planned carefully as it is very hard to change. Although it can be done. Before Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have been tidying up Active Directory. We have a lot of users that the helpdesk have disabled but not removed, they have not even moved them to a new OU. Because of this I decided to manually remove each disabled user whilst comparing it to a list of Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Windows Server 2012 Microsoft introduced a new feature that allows us to clone domain controllers. This helps us sysadmins to quickly restore a domain controller in an event of failures (when we have one left) and it also helps us to deploy to test environments when needed. Before Server 2012 you Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently at work, we have been making sure all our servers are fully patched and have no known vulnerabilities in them. We use a tool called Nessus, that scans the servers for any known vulnerabilities. And they were all coming back saying the needed MS15-011 KB3000483. Our team made sure Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter I upgraded to windows 10 and install the RSAT tools I was ready to start managing users sessions, but tsadmin was nowhere to be found. After doing some googling I found out Microsoft removed it from Windows Server 2012. So in turn it was removed from RSAT. I tried Read more