Windows

I can’t keep up with all the passwords! There are too many passwords for me to manage, I used to find myself unable to access systems. Passwords are especially annoying on mobile devices with the tiny keyboard. I wanted a solution that works on both the Desktop and Mobile devices. Lastpass is a password management option that I have used in the past. They have a free service but you have to pay to use there mobile apps which is not bad however I never liked the user interface on their Android App. ...

Course outline for 70-410, Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012. Install Servers: Plan for a server installation; plan for server roles; plan for a server upgrade; install Server Core; optimize resource utilization by using Features on Demand; migrate roles from previous versions of Windows Server Configure servers Configure Server Core; Delegate administration; 3. Add and remove features in offline images; 4. Deploy roles on remote servers; 5. Convert Server Core to/from full GUI; 6. Configure services; 7. Configure NIC teaming ...

Network Booting my WinPe image with pxelinux has been an illusive goal of mine. I got it working :-). Get iPXE I downloaded iPXE into my home folder: git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git cd ipxe/src make cp bin/undionly.kpxe /tftproot/ PXE Chainloading I have configured my network to chainload iPXE using the “undionly.kpxe” image. I configured my dhcp server (dd-wrt) to point to my tftp server which runs on my NAS. I placed “undionly.kpxe” in the tftp root folder. ...

I have been demystifying Hyper-V in my Lab environment. I have configured a few VMs in an isolated network and I wanted to play with the remote management features from my main system and avoid RDP where possible. The process to get this working was far from simple and Microsoft really needs to remedy this as my last visit was way more fun that this. Luckily google came to my aid and led me to “hvremote”. It took me awhile to get this working but eventually I noticed the “10 second guide” and I realized I had missed the step to “allow Anonymous logon remote dcom access”. ...

I am in the process of learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012. I’m a hands on learner for the most part and working with a lab environment always speeds up my learning exponentially. I have been looking for the most practical Lab options. I’m looking for flexibility, I want to be able to practice in an isolated environment at home and at work. I am amazed at the amount of Lab options that are available these days. Way back when I was pursuing Microsoft Certified System Engineer certification on Windows 2000 my lab consisted of two broken down computers. I recall that these systems even though they were less than stellar, ran Windows 2000 with Active Directory very well. These systems were AMD K6-2 (remember those?) with 64 MB of memory. ...

I have this web server that I manage and from time to time I need to do a system restart. A powershell script might be a quicker way to restart the system. First however I must configure the system for powershell remote management. I went ahead and installed WinRM 2.0 and Powershell 2.0 on the web server. On the Target 2003 Server: 1. Install WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 2. Enable-psRemoting ...

Who needs CDROM drives? Can I tell you that burning a DVD/CD is the devil’s work! I always prefer using a USB Flash or External USB drive. To prepare a USB disk for Windows 7 you’ll need to make it bootable by using DISKPART. Format the drive by executing the following commands one by one . Make sure you replace Disk 1 with proper Disk number . select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS QUICK assign exit Copy contents of Windows install media to USB device. References ...