I would like to mention this monitoring tool that is free up to 100 sensors to be monitored.
https://www.it.paessler.com/
Meanwhile you can review this blog sections about monitoring argument and related past published articles.
http://www.alessandromazzanti.com/search/label/Monitoring
Linux - How to create a DC with Samba 4
Samba 4 have possibility to create, under Linux environment, a windows like domain controller.
Here it is a tutorial that explain how to proceed with relative installation and setting up.
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/samba-4-domain-controller-installation-on-centos/
http://www.tecmint.com/category/samba4-active-directory/
Final result would be to have possibility to manage Centos 7/Linux server with normal RSAT tools like following screenshot.
Here they are some old blog posts:
Linux - Samba 4.1.0 Available for Download
Linux - Samba 4, finalmente uscito, compatibilità con Active Directory, Exchange e altro ancora
Linux - Dominio Samba - 1/7 - Cartella condivisa a tutti
Linux - Dominio Samba - SENZA Ldap
Linux - Dominio Samba - 3/7 - Installare Server LDAP in prospettiva di creare un dominio
Here it is a tutorial that explain how to proceed with relative installation and setting up.
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/samba-4-domain-controller-installation-on-centos/
http://www.tecmint.com/category/samba4-active-directory/
Final result would be to have possibility to manage Centos 7/Linux server with normal RSAT tools like following screenshot.
- Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45520
- Windows 8.1: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39296
- Windows 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972
- Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7887
Here they are some old blog posts:
Linux - Samba 4.1.0 Available for Download
Linux - Samba 4, finalmente uscito, compatibilità con Active Directory, Exchange e altro ancora
Linux - Dominio Samba - 1/7 - Cartella condivisa a tutti
Linux - Dominio Samba - SENZA Ldap
Linux - Dominio Samba - 3/7 - Installare Server LDAP in prospettiva di creare un dominio
Labels:
Active Directory,
Linux,
Tutorial
Windows 7 - How to convert local domain users to domain users (profile)
Here it is an interesting article that well explain how to easily convert local user profiles to domain user profile.
It is in italian but argument is decisevely interesting and useful.
https://www.achab.it//achab.cfm/it/blog/achablog/windows-7-come-convertire-utenti-locali-in-utenti-di-dominio
It is in italian but argument is decisevely interesting and useful.
https://www.achab.it//achab.cfm/it/blog/achablog/windows-7-come-convertire-utenti-locali-in-utenti-di-dominio
Network - How to change default MTU on Windows server/client
If you need to change default MTU on Windows O.S. you need to proceed like follow taking attention to modify correct network interface verifieng associated IP address:
The default MTU sizes for different network topologies
The following table summarizes the default MTU sizes for different network media.
The default MTU sizes for different network topologies
The following table summarizes the default MTU sizes for different network media.
Network MTU (bytes) ------------------------------- 16 Mbps Token Ring 17914 4 Mbps Token Ring 4464 FDDI 4352 Ethernet 1500 IEEE 802.3/802.2 1492 PPPoE (WAN Miniport) 1480 X.25 576
Antivirus - Microsoft Anti-Virus Exclusion List
Here it is an interesting Microsoft article that well explain all major antivirus exclusions that need to be applied to all Microsoft products:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.microsoft-anti-virus-exclusion-list.aspx
Labels:
Anti Virus,
Microsoft
2016 - Essential MSDN video presentation
This video will get you up to speed all things Windows Server 2016 Essentials. It covers who should use Essentials edition, scenarios it is good for, organizational sizing considerations, licensing and pricing considerations. Also learn about the easy dashboard experience and how Essentials edition gives customers a hybrid cloud pathway for moving to the cloud if and when they are ready.
- [1:16] Small Business Server is now Windows Server Essentials. Why the change?
- [4:05] Can you give us an overview of Essentials? What are some of its limitations?
- [6:00] What can users expect with Essentials? Should small businesses be worried to use it?
- [10:34] How does Essentials integrate with Office 365 and Azure?
- [16:32] Virtualizing Essentials is an interesting concept. What are some of the benefits and how does that actually work?
- [18:22] Can you use Essentials as the host OS and VM in this scenario?
- [20:29] What are some scenarios where you see running on-premise server applications to Azure?
- [24:28] What happens if someone has Essentials and grows past the 25 user size limitation? What upgrade options do they have?
Windows Server 2016 Essentials is the lowest-cost edition of Windows Server intended for a small company's first server. With Windows Server 2016 Essentials comes a dashboard which simplifies the tasks that you perform to manage your network and server. Common tasks include setting up your server, managing user accounts, managing backups, integrating with cloud services, and more. In this episode we'll provide an overview of Windows Server 2016 Essentials edition and a demo of how to use it.
2016 Server - Deploy a Read Only Domain Controller
Here they are advantages and considerations about RODC (Read Only Domain Controller)
- Write operations from clients are not possible to RODC.
- RODC holds a read-only copy of AD Db. (except for credentials and credential-like attributes, called a filtered attributes set (FAS))
- When RODC receive an authentication request from local office forward request to writeable DC and than it proceed to cache credentials for further usage. (this feature need to be setting up)
Here it is an interesting article that explain how to install RODC 2016 server via powershell:
Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) —
Best practices for AD administration (part 2)
Labels:
Veeam,
Windows 2016,
Windows 2016 Server
Windows 10 - Mandatory Roaming Profile (on shared folder RO)
A roaming mandatory profile is a read-only user profile stored on a network share that acts as the default template for all users.
Differently from roaming profiles you need consider that all changes made to a roaming mandatory profile are lost upon logoff.
With this approach you can have a customized centralized windows 7 profile
You can go deeper on this argument on official Microsoft Link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776892(v=vs.85).aspx
If you like you can review this step by step article with GPO creation explanation too:
https://4sysops.com/archives/create-and-deploy-windows-10-roaming-mandatory-profile/
Differently from roaming profiles you need consider that all changes made to a roaming mandatory profile are lost upon logoff.
With this approach you can have a customized centralized windows 7 profile
You can go deeper on this argument on official Microsoft Link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776892(v=vs.85).aspx
If you like you can review this step by step article with GPO creation explanation too:
https://4sysops.com/archives/create-and-deploy-windows-10-roaming-mandatory-profile/
Labels:
Windows 10
Scripting - How to view shared folder permissions
There is an easily way to view remote shared folder permissions.
Here it is command line syntax:
Icacls \\servername\sharename
More details:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2009.07.geekofalltrades.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(v=ws.11).aspx
Here it is command line syntax:
Icacls \\servername\sharename
More details:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2009.07.geekofalltrades.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(v=ws.11).aspx
Linux - Tutorial
I would like to mention this interesting Ubuntu Linux tutorial offered by HTML website.
It is in italian language but useful to have major overview on major tasks on Linux environment.
http://www.html.it/guide/guida-linux-server/?cref=system
It is in italian language but useful to have major overview on major tasks on Linux environment.
http://www.html.it/guide/guida-linux-server/?cref=system
Tutorial - Powershell tutorial
I found this interesting Veeam video tutorial about Powershell.
Here it is:
https://go.veeam.com/learn-powershell-basics-free-tutorial-course-ty/
Here it is:
https://go.veeam.com/learn-powershell-basics-free-tutorial-course-ty/
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