In most technology environments, automation is everything. Part of that automation is the deployment of operating systems to servers and workstations via Windows Deployment Services, with help of PXE boot. Here’s how to PXE boot a guest in Hyper-V.
Just because you don’t have a GUI on your Windows Server 2012 doesn’t mean you can’t install roles and features at will. Use PowerShell, and the job gets easy.
If you’re trying to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2, and you’re getting caught in a reboot loop (or other weird behavior), stop.
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a great tool for monitoring your infrastructure. Configured correctly, it can let you know when things go awry, and even take action to fix the problem. But what happens when it stops speaking to you?
This guide is intended to provide basic systems administration instruction for hardening “out-of-the-box” installations of Windows Server. Even though current versions of Windows Server provides a better security model than previous versions of Windows servers, the attack surface area can be reduced further.
This handy little VBscript to create a system restore point can be encapsulated in a function and can save you from yourself.
From time to time, it might be required that large number of generic user account objects be created in an Active Directory domain. Here is how to do it, quickly.
When deploying large numbers of computers, there are several methods of joining a machine to a domain. Since I am a big fan of VBScript (shhh!), I use this method to join the machine.
Once again, someone has decided to sell some knowledge. Nothing burns me up more than someone trying to make a quick buck off something so simple as generating a random password.
Now, now. I know most of you are pretty seasoned veterans of technology, and some of you are even top-notch developers. Would you believe someone out there is selling this, though? Yes, I know. On a particular forum for webmasters and SEO-type folks that I frequent, I saw a marketplace post for a script for sale. The script… Read More »