Reading Time: 3 minutesThis guide is to show you how to configure networking on a nano server. This can be done in a few ways. In this guide I will show you how to Set a static IP address via the Recovery Console 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 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 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 Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery Sysadmin has had to troubleshoot group policies at least once. I know I have had to do this many, many times in the past. One of the first tools I go to when troubleshooting group policy from a client 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 Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesMicrosoft released this update to fix a man in the middle attack using Group Policy Update, unfortunately it appears that it has also changed the behaviour in how Group Policy is applied. If you use security filtered Group Policy that 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 Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is always good practice to keep you Active Directory clean. One easy way to keep your Active Directory clean is by removing stale computer accounts periodically. I have always found that when Windows machines are disjoined from a domain, 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 Read more