Since beginning of time, I have always used Windows AD Server for my homelab. And it has worked well for my purpose, which is nothing so complex other than some usual testing. What I really did hate about it is Windows OS by it’s nature is very resource intensive and sometimes unstable :). Being very noob
Category: Windows
Amazing world of dependencies !!
It has been while since I posted anything. Mainly not because I was not learning anything new, but it is because I am not getting enough time nowadays (or in other words, I just got a life now :D). But then I realized that time and time, I like to read my old post to
Unable to allocate XXX MB of RAM error in Hyper-V
So… after trying Windows 10, I ran into first annoying issue which seem to have no solution at this point. Main reason I wanted to upgrade to Win 10 (not sure if I had choice since MSFT is literally forcing everyone to upgrade to Win 10) was to try Hyper-V. I am running at any
Export–Import Windows Firewall Setting using PowerShell
Something I really hate is to do same thing again and again manually … and so I always try to automate that task using scripting … weather it is simple Batch Script … VB Script … Bash .. or my new favorite PowerShell . What I really like about PowerShell is, it exposes whole .NET
Setting up Domain Controller in Virtual System … Part II
So after setting up Domain Controller (DC) next step is to configure workstations and add them into newly created Domain. It is actually not that difficult part but during my early trials I spent quite a bit time to make these workstations connect to DC. Because even though they were part of same network they
Setting up Domain Controller in Virtual System … Part I
If you are like me, who like to “experiment” with random software downloaded from Source Forge, CodePlex or anything alike … on top of working on bunch of side projects in different work environments … and you have a “bug” in your mind which make you learn anything and everything .. then I am sure
Use of SYSPREP to duplicate windows image with new SIDs
From past some time I am trying to create windows domain in home computer with bunch of VMs using Windows Server 2008 R2 for “educational” purposes … my ultimate goal was to setup clustered windows system and have SQL Server in that environment. I want to lean about how SQL Server behaves in clustered systems