Active Directory Ports
In the series of posts this month we’ve been looking at network ports relevant to security administrators. This note explores…
SCCM: Step by Step Walk-through Setup
Introduction The environment used for setting up System Center Configuration Manager is a two server farm with one server acting…
How to Configure DHCP on Windows Server 2016
DHCP is used to dynamically assign IP addresses to client machines. This tutorial is written to help you to install…
Configuring and using Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a really interesting tool from Microsoft. It allows an administrator to remotely deploy Windows operating systems to machines booting…
How to Setup And Configure DNS Role on Windows Server 2016
Domain Name System (DNS), defined in several Request for Comments (RFC)documents, performs a single task: translating user-friendly hostnames to IPv4 or…
Certificate (password-less) based authentication in WinRM
This week the WinRM ruby gem version 1.8.0 released adding support for certificate authentication. Many thanks to the contributions of @jfhutchi and @elpetak that make this…
Deploying Skype for Business 2015, including Edge and Reverse Proxy Servers
I was given the task of deploying a full-blown on-premise deployment of Skype for Business Server 2015 for a small…
Repadmin – Active Directory Replication Tools
In this post, we’ll learn about Repadmin command, it’s the Active Directory Replication Tools used to check Active Directory replication…
Configure Skype for Business Server 2015 Hybrid for Office 365 operated by 21Vianet
With Skype for Business hybrid deployments, you can have some of your Skype for Business users on-premises, and other users…
Exchange Server 2013 Step By Step Migration To 2016
The setup comprise of 2013 single Exchange server. For migrating the data, first we need to install Exchange 2016 with…
Step-By-Step: Setting up Active Directory in Windows Server 2016
There are interesting new features now made available in Windows Server 2016 such as time based group membership, privileged access management,…