VLANs are a great tool to manage business networks and VMware knows that very well. We’ll show you how you can configure ESX(i) to tag packets and how to create virtual switches for your VLANs.
Before reading the guide, it’s important to have VLANs configured in your network. More information on how to segment a LAN into VLANs here.
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A standard user of an Active Directory Domain may need to access several PCs of the domain. The manual configuration of the needed permissions may be tricky but thanks to the Windows Server Essentials Experience role we have an easier way to allow the remote control.
Before reading this tutorial you need to install the Windows Server Essentials Experience role. If you don’t know how to do that, read this article.
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Windows Server Essentials Dashboard is an interesting tool that facilitates the management of an Active Directory Domain. Once a feature available uniquely on Windows Server SBS, you can now install it on every Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2.
The installation process involves the addition of a role. Quite an easy procedure.
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Roaming Profiles allow users of an Active Directory Domain to access their desktop and documents from any PC of the domain.
It’s a powerful feature that can improve the productivity of the employees and make their lives easier.
The best thing about Roaming Profiles is how they are easy to set up.
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Recently, we explained how you can set up a Work Folders Sync Share on a Windows Server 2012 R2. It’s time to discover how you can connect a Windows 8.1 client to a Work Folders Sync Share.
The process is quick and simple, but you need to know two important things:
Reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WorkFolders /v AllowUnsecureConnection /t REG_DWORD /d 1Reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WorkFolders /v ServerUrl /t REG_SZ /d http://syncServer.contoso.comWe’ve already seen how you can install IIS (Internet Information Services) on Windows 8.1 for testing purposes. Now, we’ll see how you can install IIS on a server machine, to host your website for production purposes.
There’s no much differences between the two procedures. The installation is quick and easy.
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Active Directory is the directory service developed by Microsoft for its Windows operating systems.
It’s a very powerful tool that allows to manage access permissions, domains, shared folders, shared printes, proxy servers and much more in a centralized way.
We are going to show you how to create an Active Directory Domain on a Windows Server 2012 R2.
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