When installing an application on a Terminal Server, because multiple people will be using the application at once, there is actually a special method that you should use to install the applications. Here’s two methods to do it the right way. The GUI Method [Starting from Server 2012] To get started open control panel. Switch…
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Troubleshooting Windows Fail-over Clusters and CSV
Generating the comprehensive Cluster Diagnostic Report; Get-ClusterDiagnosticInfo The above command Gets diagnostics for a cluster a cluster that contains VMs and produces a zip file containing the data. Example: PS C:\> Get-ClusterDiagnosticInfo -WriteToPath “C:\Users\MyUser\HealthTest\” This cmdlet enables you to view the state of your CSV. Understanding the state of your CSV is useful in troubleshooting failures…
How to reset VMWare ESXi evaluation license
Make sure that the SSH service is running on your ESXi host. Open an SSH session to your ESXi host. Run the following commands; rm -r /etc/vmware/license.cfg cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg /etc/init.d/vpxa restart The license is again valid for 60 days after the vpxa service is restarted.
AWS Icons, Tools and Architectures for the AWS Professionals
AWS Simple Icons AWS Simple Icons are an official icon set that includes icons for several AWS products and resources. Customers and partners are permitted by AWS to use them to create architecture diagrams. The icons are designed to be simple so that you can easily incorporate them in your diagrams and put them in…
Resetting the MS SQL sa Password – The Correct Way
If the user forgets the SQL password, then the user can ask the SQL SA (system administrator). It is because the SQL SA can easily reset the user’s password. But, what need to do if the administrator forgot the password? Here is how to Resolve the issue; Step 01 Try to Login into SQL Server…
Enable WDS Server selection from multiple WDS Servers
If you have multiple Windows Deployment Servers provisioned in the environment, you will need to enable the WDS server selection feature as below; Simply go to (this needs to be done on the WDS role running instance): HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WDSServer\Providers\WDSPXE\Providers\BINLSVC and set AllowServerSelection to 1. Then restart the Windows Deployment Service. After doing this you get the…
Set up a Free SSL Certificate on a Windows Server
Lets Encrypt: https://github.com/PKISharp/win-acme Windows Client: https://github.com/PKISharp/win-acme/releases
How to Enable & Trackdown user actions concerning files and folders access
It is important to audit all user actions concerning files and folders access. In this article, the process of enabling files and folders auditing on Windows Server Systems have been explained. On Windows Server Systems, auditing file and folder accesses consists of two parts: 1. Enable File and Folder auditing which can be done in…