Creating a Windows Server Performance baseline
Microsoft Geek
Introduction Every Microsoft Windows server should be monitored for performance issues, but if you have nothing to compare it against, how do you know when its over worked or ticking…
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DNS Records
A Record The majority of DNS records are “A” records. A records allow for you to point different sections of your domain to different IP addresses or servers. For example,…
How to Create a VPN on Windows Server 2012
What is a VPN? A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology for using the Internet or another intermediate network to connect computers to isolated remote computer networks that would…
How To Install Trusted Root Certification Authority With MMC
How To Install Trusted Root Certification Authority With MMC Requirement: sometimes we need to install a third part Certificate as “Trusted Root Certification Authority”. Solution: You can run windows MMC…
RAID Levels Explained
Whether you’re looking to optimize a server’s performance or to defend against total data loss on a NAS box, you need RAID. But which level is right? Here is a…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: Configuring a Samba Server
Configuring a Samba Server The default configuration file (/etc/samba/smb.conf) allows users to view their home directories as a Samba share. It also shares all printers configured for the system as…
Recover a single e-mail using Search-Mailbox in Exchange 2010
*Note* This article applies to Exchange Server 2010 SP1. Recently I was asked to recover a single e-mail, because he deleted it by accident. In Exchange 2007 I would use…
How to Create and Link a Group Policy Object in Active Directory
I’ll show you how to create a Group Policy Object (GPO) in Active Directory, and link it to a site, domain or Organizational Unit (OU). Group Policy was introduced in…
The Group Policy client service failed the logon
If you try to login to a client or server system and you get this error message below: “the group policy client service failed the logon.Access Denied” Do the following…
Allow Exchange relay emails from certain IP addresses
In general, we always try and keep our mail servers as secure as possible, and only allow relaying to trusted/authenticated users. This is in order to avoid our servers being…