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Join a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core to a domain
0You just installed one or more Windows 2008 servers, and they are all core editions, witch is greate. Less resources and space consumed on the host, and same performance. Now you want to join those servers to your domain for ease of administration and security. To join a server core to a domain can be done in two ways; using the sconfig menu or the netdom command. In this guide we are going to use both of them. (more…)
Install certificate in IIS 6.0 after deleting the pending certificate request
0Looks like lately certificates are my specialty. Today, at work I had to replace a certificate in IIS 6.0 to one of the web sites; the old one expired. The new certificate was purchased as a renewal of the old one, not as a new certificate, so no private key…well not with the certificate anyway, only in the server registry from the expired one. (more…)
Issuing Extended Validation (EV) certificates from an Internal Windows CA
0OK boys and girls, is time for some fun using certificates issued by an internal Windows CA. As you can read in the title we are going to issue EV (Extended validation) certificates from our internal CA. Yes it can be done with Windows Server 2008 R2. Using EV certificates on your web sites does not mean an increase of security, but sometimes is just so cool to have that green bar in IE 
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Digitally Signing RemoteApp Programs on Windows Server 2008 R2
0Those of you that have one or more Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) servers in the network, that host RemoteApp programs, know how frustrating is that certificate error when clients connect to their virtualized applications. To re mediate this you will need to install a proper/trusted certificate on the server to sign those applications; actually you are signing the .rdp files, not the applications, just to make a quote here. You can use a commercial certificate, if you have the budget and a lot of external clients, or you can use your internal Certification Authority. If you use the second solution, clients that are not part of the domain will need to have the root certificate installed for this to work properly. So enough with the talking and let’s get started. (more…)
Slow Remote Desktop connection via Remote Desktop Gateway
0Hi there, me again. This week I had a small problem with Remote Desktop Client connecting trough Remote Desktop Service Gateway (RDS Gateway); the connection was very slow and it was disconnecting every ten seconds. Very frustrating. I was connecting from a Windows 7 client using a RDS 2008 R2 Gateway. So after two days of frustration I started to debug the problem, and as always the solution was a check box. (more…)
Deploying Windows 7 with WDS and MDT 2010 – Part4
0This is going to be the last part of these series, and in this part I’m going to discuss how to deploy a captured image, and create rules that will automate those client installation wizards. (more…)
Deploying Windows 7 with WDS and MDT 2010 – Part3
0Welcome to the third part of deploying Windows 7 with WDS and MDT 2010. In the first two parts I showed you how to install WDS and MDT 2010, how to import a clean image of an operating system into MDT and how to create a task sequence. In this part we are going to deploy that clean image of Windows 7 to a workstation, then capture the system and import that capture in MDT 2010 for mass deploy. (more…)
Deploying Windows 7 with WDS and MDT 2010 – Part2
0In the first part of these series, I showed you how to install WDS and MDT on the deployment server. In this second part, we are going to configure these services before we deploy a clean image of Windows 7. Don’t worry, configurations are driven by wizards most of the time, and when they are not I will try my best to explain those settings for a better understanding. (more…)
Deploying Windows 7 with WDS and MDT 2010 – Part1
0If you’re reading this it means you head about MDT 2010, and how you can automate the deployment of Windows 7, and not just Windows 7; you can even deploy Windows XP or server systems with MDT 2010. Combined with WDS your job will be so much easier and faster. Yes… you can use just WDS to deploy those systems, but you can’t automate everything and run scripts during deployment, like you can with MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). In this first part of the series we are going to take care of the installation process of WDS and MDT. (more…)
Adding Disks and Tape Libraries to DPM 2010
0Now that you have your DMP server installed, the next thing to do, is to add disks for your backups. You can use DAS (Direct Attached Storage) which are hard drives connected directly to your DPM server, iSCSI which is storage accessed through the network, Fiber Channel LUNs which is storage accessed trough fiber optic cables, or tapes for archiving, called Libraries in DPM. Since I don’t have a Fiber Channel connection in my lab, I can only show you how to add the rest of the supported storage to DPM. (more…)
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