Windows Server 2016 is major edition from Microsoft on which most of the companies are moving. However the latest edition of OS is Server 2019, but 2016 adoption is still in progress. We have already published the article on Windows Server 2019 installation. Let’s see the installation steps of Windows Server 2016: Once you boot… Read More »
FireEye is a Cyber Security firm deal with lot many products, but the most famous product from the company is Mandiant Endpoint Agent. Mandiant was a separate company founded in 2004 which was later acquired by FireEye in 2013. Mandiant helps our organization to be prevented by various security attack. This is now a propitiatory… Read More »
Yes, I know what many of you are thinking. Why 2008 server? Well there is no straight answer for this. I was setting up 2008 server for my lab testing so thought of sharing with you. Many organization (including mine) are still using 2008 servers, perhaps this article will help them. However, Microsoft has stopped… Read More »
In small companies, generally System Administrators change User’s password on their request. But in big enterprise, it’s not possible to do in same way. As a solution, we can setup a global web page and let Users change their password by themselves. This we can do in any Windows Server, part of the domain. Let’s… Read More »
I hope you are aware of a concept of Service Accounts. It’s a special account which is used to run a service in one or multiple servers. Unlike other accounts in Active Directory, the password of service account never expires. To understand Service Principal Name in one line, SPN is the unique (in entire Forest)… Read More »
I hope from our previous posts, you got fair idea about how to promote your server as a domain controller. Right after promoting your domain controller, the first thing you have to check if your server is properly promoted as DC or not. There are few things which we can check to confirm the proper… Read More »
I hope you all are enjoying the initial posts about Active Directory. So far we have understood the concept, installation and configuration of AD. In this post, we will discuss about the most common Active Directory objects. Many of us know what they are, let’s have a basic understanding. Users: The most common object belongs… Read More »