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Deploy Active Directory Domain Using PowerShell

Deploy Active Directory  Domain using PowerShell Let’s start by Setting the PowerShell Execution Policy to Unrestricted

Next we will rename the server and install Prereq features.

After the script has run successfully the sever will restart , once restarted launch the #PowerShell Console again and run the second script. This will install all…

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End of support for DirSync and Azure AD Sync . Time to upgrade to Azure AD Connect!

On April 13 of last year, Microsoft announced the deprecation of “Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync)” and “Azure Active Directory Sync (Azure AD Sync)” and that it was time to start planning to upgrade to Azure AD Connect. They have also announced that end of Support for DirSync & AzureAD Sync will be on…

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Rename Server using #Powershell

Rename Windows Server Name using #PowerShell Being in the #LazyAdminMode lets rename our server using #PowerShell Lets start by opening  #PowerShell  and type

and that is it 🙂 quick and easy #LoveIt Next lets restart the Server using #PowerShell  to apply the new name by typing

  To get more information regarding the…

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Some Group Policy areas are missing from the Group Policy Editor

SUMMARY When you open the Group Policy Editor MMC snap-in tool, focused either on a local GPO or AD-based one, some Group Policy areas that are expected to appear may not be found. SYMPTOMS Some policy areas are missing when you open up the Group Policy editor. These missing policy areas are different than the…

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DHCP Server UI displaying wrong IP address in Windows 2012 (169.254)

Got to help out with a customer with a very interesting query. Authorized DHCP server not showing the correct server name or IP instead it comes up as a (169.254.X ) IP. To resolve this issue or incorrect GUI Display we need to change the NIC binding with the steps below. How to set/view the…

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Creating fine grained password policies through GUI Windows server 2012

A quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain One of the nice features introduced in Windows Server 2010 “Server…

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