How to Install Applications on a Remote Desktop Server
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When installing an application on a Terminal Server, because multiple people will be using the application at once, there is actually a special method that you should use to install…
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Windows Server 2012 and DCPromo
In past versions of Windows Server, after using the GUI to add the Active Directory binaries to your server, you would use DCPromo to promote your server into a Domain…
How to Configure an Internal SMTP Relay Server for Office 365
Most organizations have internal application servers and appliances that send emails to users or groups. Examples include copier/scanners and application servers, such as backup servers that notify admins of a…
How to Create a Test Lab (Without Breaking Your PC)
Our Geek School articles can get pretty complicated, and there’s no reason to do a ton of crazy stuff on your own desktop PC. Instead, you can just VirtualBox like…
6 Steps for Setting Up a Small Business Server Room
Recent reports of widespread National Security Agency spyingand NSA encryption circumvention provide an eye-opener on the vulnerability of data in transit and stored online. Like it or not, the revelation…
Export a list of members from an Active Directory group to a text file
I needed to export a list of all the members in an active directory group today. Here are two methods which work well. The first example uses the net group…
How to set up WSUS on Windows Server 2008 R2
Good morning my fellow readers. Today I am going to show you how to set up WSUS on Windows Server 2008 R2. WSUS is fantastic for centralising management of Windows…
Windows Deployment Service in Server 2008 R2
Problem: You need to deploy many clients. Solution: Use Windows Deployment Services What you need: Windows Deployment Services, OS images, an Active Directory domain, DNS, DHCP, and an NTFS partition.…
Find Dell Service Tag with command line locally or remotely
If you’re like me you’re rarely sitting in front of your customer’s hardware. These simple steps will allow you to find the Service Tag for your Dell hardware without looking…
Managing Active Directory with PowerShell
Introduction There’s no question that PowerShell is here to stay as an automation tool for Windows. And with it, comes a variety of ways to automate management Windows infrastructure. For…