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Install Active Directory Domain Services

Mon, Nov 19, 2018 Microsoft

This process will show you how to create your first in Domain Controller in a forest. Using Windows Server 2019 for this Demo. Windows 2019 still operates at Windows Server 2016 Forest and Domain Functional level. I recommend configuring the Windows Server with Static Network configuration before promoting the server …

VMware Horizon View Composer Failing to Install and Secure Boot

Sun, Jun 17, 2018 VMware

So why is VMware Horizon View Composer Failing to Install ? Recently I have been testing moving Horizon View to Server 2016 since we will be migrating soon from 2012R2 to 2016 in production sometime this year. When I went to install Composer 7.5 (This also happened with 7.4) on a composer standalone configuration. I …

Windows 10 1709 and SMBServerNameHardeningLevel

Sat, Mar 3, 2018 Windows

Recently old colleague of mine call me from my previous job. During their testing they found when they went to Windows 10 1709 their configuration baseline tool was unable to scan for compliance on 1709 Windows clients. I worked with him over the weekend to find root cause to the issue and to submit a ticket to the …

Cisco VIRL 1.3 Metadata CRC error detected xfs_repair

Sun, Nov 12, 2017 Cisco

I received a phone call from a co-worker over the weekend about having issues with VIRL 1.3 (Aug 2017 Build). He encountered the issue after deploying VIRL 1.3 ova (1 nic or 5 nic ova on ESXi 6.5 update1). After deploying the OVA he would reconfigure the virtual machine with CPU and memory needed for his lab. VIRL …