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
Tag: Windows
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
Setting up personal Source Control Server using Visual SVN Server
I was working on one of my personal projects and I thought that it would be really cool if I have my own source control mechanism so I can always rollback to older versions if I ever need to do it. Till now, I was always just keep multiple copies of each project so if
Becoming administrator of my own machine !!
I know, it sounds strange. But it is fact that when we install Windows 7 or Vista (say any non-server post XP OS ?), and even if select ourselves as local administrator we actually don’t become administrator !! And due to that even if you disable that notorious UAC notifications you will still sometimes need