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Lock Down Remote Desktop Services Server 2012 / RDS 2012 R2

By admin, on May 9th, 2014%

Preparation

Create OU for RDS Server in Active Directory. Create security group for users who will use Remote Desktop Host (i.e. RDS Users). Create GPO (i.e. RDS Server Lock Down). In Security Filtering delete Authenticated Users, add RDS Server Computer Account, and the security group created in previous step.

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VMware vCenter 5.1 Service will not start on Windows Server 2012

By admin, on December 5th, 2012%

The vCenter Server is dependant on the ProtectedStorage Service that no longer existas in windows 2012

ProtectedStorage is a dependancy for most applications using .NetFramework in Windows 2012. A simple workaround is to remove the dependancy which will not affect your production application anyway unless you have clustering features unabled for this application.

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Setup NTP time server in Windows 2008 R2

By admin, on April 22nd, 2011%

Step 1: Net time /setsntp: W32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist: W32tm /config /reliable:yes W32tm /config /update W32tm /resync Pause Exit

Step 2: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM

\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config] “AnnounceFlags”=dword:00000005 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters] “Type”=”NTP” [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer] “Enabled”=dword:00000001

Step 3: Net stop w32time Net start w32time Net time Pause Exit

Command in login script: Net Time \\<LocalTimeServer’sName /Set /Yes

Troubleshooting SVGA drivers installed and Slow Display Performance with VMware Tools on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 running on ESX 4.0

By admin, on March 12th, 2011%

Details

You receive a black screen on the virtual machine when using Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on ESX 4.0.
You experience slow mouse performance on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine.

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Clean Up Your Migrated (P2V) Windows VMs

By admin, on September 23rd, 2010%

To show all devices that ever connected to your Windows VM (computer), do the following. Open a command prompt and type

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Then, in the same command prompt, type devmgmt.msc to start the device manager.

In the device manager mmc choose View -> Show hidden devices.

This will be gone when you . . . → Read More: Clean Up Your Migrated (P2V) Windows VMs

.NET Framework 4 – Microsoft Has done its Miracle Again!

By admin, on September 10th, 2010%

I was putting off an ERP Client update for so many days, up until we found a chance to Hit the upgrade button.

That meant that not only the ERP client was upgraded but also the new blue shiny .net 4 was also downloaded and installed. Thats when it all started.

Most of the Lenovo machines in the net that had windows XP Pro SP3 went completely dead. No network, no responsiveness, sloooooow login on to the domain, up until we had a pile of those machine stuck in a corner for inspection and eventual a reformat with windows 7 (A very long awaited and wanted opportunity :)).

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Step By Step Tutorial How to migrate DHCP server from a Windows server 2003 to Windows server 2008

By admin, on July 9th, 2010%

This tutorial will explain Export the DHCP database from a server that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 To move a DHCP database and configuration from a server that is running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 to another server that is running Windows Server 2008.Read more: http://www.technohub.in/how-to-migrate-dhcp-server-from-a-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2008.html#ixzz0tBxuZGCC Under . . . → Read More: Step By Step Tutorial How to migrate DHCP server from a Windows server 2003 to Windows server 2008

Transfer FSMO Roles to a Windows 2008 Domain Contoroller

By admin, on July 8th, 2010%

FSMO Roles

In Microsoft Windows domain, there are five FSMO roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers. There are two operations master roles for each forest and three FSMO roles for each domain as following: Continue reading Transfer FSMO Roles to a Windows 2008 Domain Contoroller

So You want IIS 7.5 – PHP – ASP – MySQL – PHPMyAdmin!

By admin, on June 20th, 2010%

Intro

The Obvious question…. Why would you want to do that to yourself? 😆
Well this jotting space is about stuff i was beaten and forced to do. This was a pain to figure out and thought I should try and keep some notes.
I am putting those down a few days after I managed to read-figure out how to do this, so I might be missing some points. There has been a lot of hard work in Cut-Pasting all this so i might have got tiered in the end and missed some of my readings. 😛 Continue reading So You want IIS 7.5 – PHP – ASP – MySQL – PHPMyAdmin!

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