Amazon has published a White Paper on how to use SharePoint services on AWS. It provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. If you are an IT administrator contemplating of moving your SharePoint to Amazon's cloud then this paper will guide you on how to set up and deploy the... Read More
Moving services from server to another is an extensive job, especially if a resource has a long list of items to move such as, a long list of printers. With Virtualization migrating resources has been simplified in a way, however, some specific tasks remain the same. That is, they don't benefit from available tools at the virtualization layer. When performing... Read More
There are always lessons to learn from major incidents. For instance, outages like the one that the global hosting provider GoDaddy has suffered yesterday should remind us of how best online resources are deployed! A must-read RFC about the selection and operation of secondary DNS servers defines the best practices to set up a secondary DNS server for your domain... Read More
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As we have noted in a previous post all IPv6 Link-local Addresses (LLA) share the same network identifier (fe80::) hence, you can cannot determine which interface an LLA is bound to, if the computer has multiple network adapters connected to different network segments. In fact, it distinguishes the networks by using a numeric zone ID, following a percent sign after... Read More
The widely used fingerprint readers and software pre-installed on laptops sold by major vendors like Dell, Sony, and at least 14 others contains a serious weakness that exposes Windows passwords in seconds. Hackers are able to quickly recover account passwords if your laptop uses software from UPEK, according to security researchers. Apparently, laptops equipped with UPEK fingerprint readers and running... Read More
Windows Server 2012 has been released and many questions about the software have been answered. But there was still one question that was looming; when is the tech industry planning to integrate Windows Server into their network? To answer this question, Firebrand surveyed over a thousand Technology companies and created an Info-graphic to share the results: Read more here -... Read More
DNS implementations in Windows Server 2008 environments can have four types of deployments. The most productive is the dynamic DNS server which is integrated with every DC in the network. Read-write DCs will also contain read-write DNS servers. In remote sites where a DC may be present for availability purposes, read-only DCs will also include read-only DNS servers. External networks... Read More
This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. For a test lab based on physical computers, you can image the drives for future test labs. For a test lab based on virtual machines, you can create snapshots of the base... Read More