Sysadmin

Recreating a real world scenario….virtually (Part Two)

Author’s Note: This post will be part two of a series in which I will be creating an infrastructure for a company called Contoso. It will consist of four virtual machines connected to an isolated network. We will have Active Directory…

Recreating a real world scenario….virtually (Part One)

Author’s Note: This post will be the initiation of a series in which I will be creating an infrastructure for a company called Contoso. It will consist of four virtual machines connected to an isolated network. We will have Active…

Got GUI? A Guide to Server Core 2012 R2’s Minimal Interface

No Scripts, Ma! Install a Parent and Child Domain with Server Core 2012 R2

Creating a Windows Server 2012 R2 Core unattended installation ISO

Unattended installation is an automated installation technology used to install or upgrade an operating system with minimal user intervention. Unattended installation is typically used during large-scale roll outs…

Clones, Clones, Clones!

When people think of cloning, Dolly the Sheep comes to mind. Yet the 1996 event was not anything new. It has always…

Installing and Configuring a RODC in Windows Server 2012

A System Administrator’s job includes managing a company’s servers (which could be anywhere from 50 to 5000), ensuring that critical data and resources are available only to authorized users, and updating software and hardware. All…

Creating a Raid Array in Windows 7

One of the biggest worries in today’s tech age is data loss. You never know when it can happen and it’s always best to be prepared. When looking at different solutions, you want to consider performance and fault tolerance. Redundant Array Of Independent Disks(Raid)…

A Different Way to Look At Subnetting

Subnetting: Creating logical subdivisions of an IP network. Sounds simple, but any IT student knows it is much more complex then it sounds. That’s because to learn how to subnet, you must first understand binary numbers. Computer language. 1s and 0s. Math alert…