Ultimate Tutorial: How to deploy Hyper-V Failover Cluster This post aims to guidance you on how to deploy Hyper-V Failover Cluster, step by step in a high available environment. Overview The configuration presented at this page was implemented in a production environment for a company of 100 employees in 2012. Deploy hyper-v failover cluster. The purpose […]
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How to configure NTP server in Active Directory, Step by step If you want to know how to configure NTP server in your Active Directory environment, including Domain Controllers and domain computers, to have a reliable time service working correctly and synchronizing with an external time server, this post shows how to do that in
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How to fix clients not showing up in WSUS If you are facing problems with clients not showing up in WSUS, this post will demonstrate, step by step, how to troubleshoot and fix the issue. Table of Content Troubleshooting 1 – I am assuming that you are using Group Policies to apply the WSUS settings
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How to add UPN suffix in Active Directory If you want to know how to add UPN suffix in Active Directory environment and how to update all domain users to use it, this post shows how to do that in a very easy way. The User Principal Name (UPN) suffix is part of the logon
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How to delegate Active Directory groups If you are looking for the possibility to grant rights to a non-administrator user to manage a security Active Directory group membership, but don’t want give him access to Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, learn below How to delegate Active Directory groups. Delegating Membership Management with the Managed By
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The request to add or remove features failed If you have found yourself trying to add or remove a feature on Windows Server 2012 R2 and an error, The request to add or remove features failed. The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you specified requires a restart, but you know it doesn’t
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DCDIAG Tests Ports and Protocols for Firewall For those who are looking for knowing what protocol each DCDIAG tests ports command uses, this post shows all ports and protocols. This is useful when you need to make sure the firewall rules are allowing communication between Domain Controllers when you execute the command dcdiag /e for
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How to fix dcdiag warning for machineaccount test If you ran the Domain Controller test check using DCDIAG and faced an issue with the MachineAccount test, this post shows the root cause of the problem and how to fix dcdiag warning. DCDIAG MachineAccount test warning attribute is 0x82020: The default value for computers objects in Active Directory
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How to apply GPO without reboot Windows If you want to apply GPO without reboot Windows Server, this post shows how to do that in a very easy way. The Challenge In the WSUS project, I was in charge of last months in my work, I had to create and apply several policies to Servers
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Best Practices for Assigning FSMO Roles If you are looking for assigning FSMO roles to your Domain Controllers, this post gathered some useful information related to that. Rule 1 The PDC Emulator and RID Master roles should be on the same machine because the PDC Emulator is a large consumer of RIDs. Rule 2 The
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