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 from a network adapter. In environments with a high number of clients WDS can be very useful, a new computer can be formatted just plugging the Ethernet, without any physical support like Windows DVDs or USB drives.

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 IPv6 addresses. The DNS serverin Windows Server 2016 works the same basic way as it does in Windows Server 2012 R2. However, the Windows Server engineering team added some worthwhile enhancements, including DNS policies and Response Rate…

MCT Regional Lead Meeting with MCTs [ Meeting] – 2018/06/01 – Azerbaijan/Baku { COMPLETED }

Hello Everyone, As an MCT Regional Lead in Azerbaijan, I am really happy to have the chance to meet with the active MCTs from this beautiful country. We had arranged so many learning and training related plans in order how to improve Microsoft Technologies training worldwide.

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 possible. As I set out to test this feature, I explored how certificate authentication works in winrm using native windows tools like powershell remoting. My primary takeaway was that it was not at all straightforward…