Monthly Archives - February 2017

23Feb2017

Benefits to keeping an On-Premises Active Directory Domain

I have seen an alarming trend in the small business market--as more and more companies offload their IT infrastructure to cloud-based applications and services (which is great in many cases), many of them are also starting to abandon older tools and platforms such as on-premises Active Directory. This I cannot agree...
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16Feb2017

Hyper-V Failover Cluster: Basic Setup

I have previously shared a slightly more complex method for configuring a simple 2-node failover cluster, involving a converged Hyper-V virtual switch, with QoS policies and so forth to manage traffic on the Management, CSV and Live Migration networks. However, there is another config I wanted to share, which...
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09Feb2017

CRUD: When to use Create, Replace, Update or Delete in Group Policy Preferences?

I have to admit: I don't use Group Policy Preferences as much as I probably should. Historically, when I migrate clients from a legacy system such as Windows Server 2003 or 2008 to something newer, I tended to leave well enough alone, so to speak, and just update existing logon scripts, batch files...
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