As you probably know Active Directory stores information about objects on the network and makes this information available to users and network administrators. AD uses domain controllers to give network users access to permitted resources anywhere on the network through a single logon process. In this article I will go through the installation of active directory on Windows server 2008.…
If for some reason you can’t change the product key of your Server 2008 under the My Computer Windows Activation option: Do the following. Open the command prompt and change working directory to System32 directory Type in slmgr.vbs -ckms (this clears and KMS entry you may have) Type slmgr.vbs -upk (this removes any product key installed) Type slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx…
In the last post we installed Active Directory on Windows 2008, and we were advised by the AD installation wizard to install DNS right after the reboot. DNS is a required component in order for active directory to work properly. Is highly recommended that you have a healthy DNS server running on your network before you start playing with active…
Today I will be installing Microsoft Server 2008 on VMware 2.0 for my testing lab; this server will eventually be my testing domain controller. Read my previous article How To Create a Virtual Machine on VMware 2.0 to get up to date on what we have been up to. Getting The Server Ready If you don’t have Windows Server 2008, download the…
I will break this entry in two posts. on the first post I will show you how to create and enable a password change policy on your domain using Windows server 2008, and in the second I will show you how to remind users to change their password when their password is about to expire. I assume your domain is…
After installing Windows 2008 on my VMware Server virtual machine, the first thing I did was to install an anti-virus software. I won’t be browsing the Internet on this server, but it will be always connected to the network, so just in case a Trojan horse tries to find a haven on this machine, is better to have an anti-virus installed. …
Hyper-V 2008 R2 can be ran as bare metal or hosted hypervisor. the bare metal hypervisor is free and can be downloaded from the following link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd776191 and the hosted hypervisor requires a Windows 2008 license. both hypervisors use Windows 2008 OS, the difference is that in Hyper-V bare metal Windows 2008 is customized to only run Hyper-V in server…
