Azure Infra – a technical blog.
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Default Logon Domain
When you use Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 or Vista / Windows 2008 you almost always have to type the domain name during logon.. eg Type your username as…
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Free training?
Organizing a free training can give your business new customers, thats probably the idea behind free trainings seminars from Twice IT; you can follow a short course in exchange…
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RSS feeds
Many of you use RSS feeds, to subscribe to a feed from this website, hoover over the category you are interested in and select RSS for the feed. If…
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Windows 2008R2 features part IV: Managed Service Accounts & Password Reset's
So we have deployed the Managed Service Accounts, and now we want a password policy set on them.. usually the service accounts have a different password policy set, so…
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Windows 2008R2 features part III: Managed Service Accounts
Password policies can help administrators secure their environment, letting users change their passwords on regular basis makes it harder for hackers to get in to a system by guessing…
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Tourist office and Google Maps combined
The strength new media is best showed when it’s simplified and usable by anyone.. take google maps, most people know about it, use it on their computer but if you’re on…
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Securing Wireless with WHS Part II
Some of you might be using Windows 7 already and have noticed that the Wireless solution for Windows Home Server does work well with Windows 7. In fact, the…
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Windows 2008 Features (DFSRMIG)
The introduction of Windows 2008 brought us the famous Read-Only domain controller, the domain controller without passwords (unless explicitly approved) and one-way replication. That one-way replication also applied…
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Windows 2008R2 features part II: Recycle Bin
Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory introduces the Recycle Bin option. If you deployed Windows 2008 R2 or upgraded your domain to the Windows 2008 R2 schema and you think…
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Windows 2008R2 features part I: Offline domain join
Since Windows NT4, clients who wanted to join a domain always needed a direct connection to the domain, either via VPN, dial-in or direct connection. New in Windows 2008R2…
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Delegate the right to start/stop replication
Let’s say you want to isolate a domain controller for a certain time, you would issue the command: repadmin /options +DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL or/and +DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL normally this command requires Domain Admin/Enterprise…
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Repadmin /expert
Repadmin is the tool used to troubleshoot replication in an Active Directory forest.. commands like repadmin /replsum (to view replication summary) or repadmin /showutdvec (to view USN per domain…