A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
In my lab, I have VMware ESXi hosts and I just want to deploy the Nano Server as a Virtual Machine so that I can play around with it, which is why the title of the article is how to install Windows Nano Server on VMware ESXi! Before we proceed further, let us look at the prerequisites required for how […]
Read moreThere are basically two ways of doing this, one is from the Exchange Management Console and the other one is Exchange Management Shell. We are particularly interested in doing the second way but I will also show you how to perform with the console as well. Go to Distribution Group under the Recipient Configuration node, and Right click to find […]
Read moreToday we will be seeing the different components of the Active Directory Certificate Services. Each of the components have a specific task to be done and they will be used under various different scenarios. If you have ever installed the Active Directory Certificate Services role, then you must know that there are six different components that are available which are: […]
Read moreThis guide will have two parts. The first one will be Installation and Configuration of Root Certificate Authority and the second one will be the post configuration settings. Installation of Root certificate Authority Open Server Manger, click on Add Roles and Features from the dashboard. Next select the Role based or feature based installation and click Next. On the next […]
Read moreToday we will see Public Key Infrastructure concepts and how the entire system works. We will be dealing with a lot of new words for those who are not aware of PKI is and how it can be used in an organization for security reasons. In the simplest terms, PKI is the framework for encryption that associates a public key […]
Read moreWe all know, people join organizations and leave organizations at regular intervals. And we as System Administrators have to create and manage their user accounts in Active Directory. As a best practice, we all set an expiration date to the user account that is created. But do we delete those accounts if they are no longer in use? Its hard […]
Read moreToday we will find empty groups in Active Directory using Powershell. You all may know that we as System Administrators are required to create groups in the Active Directory for all sorts of purposes and reasons. But over time, do people who request for these groups really utilise them? It is bound to happen that your domain will be filled […]
Read moreI ran across a requirement where in I had to find out whether the emails generated from one mailbox were getting delivered to the recipient mailbox successfully or not. As you must be aware that all the mails that are sent or received in an Exchange organization has to be routed from the Hub Transport Server. But first, let me […]
Read moreWindows Nano Server is a super lightweight version of Windows Server that was “built for the Cloud”. When I first heard of it I immediately became curious, because it resembles VMware’s ESXi in many ways: It is an embedded-like and headless system with a very small footprint and can be managed only remotely. It has limited use cases, but two […]
Read moreAfter recently deploying a hybrid configuration for Office 365, many email settings that were easily configurable within Office 365 portal could not be changed as these settings were being managed by on-premise Active Directory servers. To get past this restriction, the next best option is to access the Exchange Online via PowerShell. Note: PowerShell 3.0 is required. For Windows Server […]
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