Most domain admins these days are following the very smart practice of using a normal user account for their day to day work and another for their domain admin tasks.…

I have run into several SB installs with very high memory utilization issues lately. I started poking around and noticed it was MS SQL chewing up all the memory. I…

As most everyone has heard SSL 2.0 has been compromised. Most PCI certification authorities are requiring SSL 2.0 to be disabled. I am sure with poodle SSL 3.0 is not…

Many windows admins these days are very busy upgrading/replacing windows XP. I am not going to go into how very important to remove windows XP machines from our environments since…

Hi Windows Lovers!? (Looking to install Windows Server? The same steps apply, but for a server specific guide, go here Create a bootable Windows Server 2012 R2 installation USB flash drive)…

You get “Iashlpr initialization failed” error after installing DHCP on Windows 2008R2 After installing DHCP server on windows 2008 R2, you notice that your system event log will be filled…

Enable Remote Management You may receive the following, somewhat misleading, error panel when attempting to remotely manage a Core machine.  The panel correctly tells you that you have to enable…

Activating Server Core Depending on the output of the command you entered to check the status you can activate your Server Core installation in a couple of ways: Activating with…

With working on my MCSE for server 2012 I needed to learn how to use windows server 2012 core. unfortunately configuring basic settings from the power shell is a whole…

Upon deploying my first windows 2012 r2 essentials box with anywhere access enabled. I was surprised that I could only access the servers dashboard remotely. That is obviously a problem…