Windows Server
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Active Directory FSMO roles
Tuesday, February 04, 2025 in Windows Server
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Active Directory Domain Controllers are assigned 5 different FSMO roles, which all have their own function. We can separate them over multiple servers to create more redundancy, but make sure to handle those all as servers. All roles neeed a 24/7 …
Managing Hyper-V server without Active Directory
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 in Windows Server
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When you use Hyper-V server, you want to manage this with the management tools. However, by default Hyper-V only allows connections from domain-joined machines by design because of security and trust reasons. We can bypass this requirement by …
Solved: August 2024 updates breaks GPO Item level targeting - user in group
Monday, September 09, 2024 in Windows Server
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If you are managing Windows Servers, Group Policies are a great way to distribute settings to your endpoints. However, a recent update of August 2024 in Windows Server 2022 and 2019 breaks user filtering in Group Policy (GPO) Item Level Targeting The …
Migrate Group Policies to a new server or domain like a pro
Wednesday, August 07, 2024 in Windows Server
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Once in a while, we as IT administrators need to export and import our Group Policies of Windows Server to another server. Sometimes to copy a great policy you’ve built, or to migrate a customer to a new server. By default, the only option …
Change Evaluation version to Standard/Datacenter version
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 in Windows Server
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When you install a fresh Windows Server installation from a .iso file, it will be installing the OS as a Evaluation version. When you want to activate the installation with a key you need to rebuild the OS and set the edition to Standard. Microsoft …