One of the most important things in every Windows based domains are updates. You`ll probably want to arrange updating via Domain Group Policy since people often forget/postpone Windows Updates.
Many services and apps require some kind of email server in order to send you email notifications, warnings, errors. Windows Server 2012 doesn`t pack Exchange Server with it, but there is simple solution for sending emails from Windows Server 2012 and here is the tutorial for setting it up.
I’m doing a lot of testing on Windows 10 machines with IIS, and for some services I need PHP. In order for PHP to work with IIS PHP Manager for IIS is needed – https://phpmanager.codeplex.com/releases/view/69115
It worked fine until Windows 10. Read More
I often have a situation where I need to setup some kind of email notification for some third party app and it often doesn`t work. In order to validate email communication telnet is my best bet. Read More
While recently testing few scenarios in HyperV I somehow managed to corrupt one of my domain controllers in lab. LAB was based on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. While rebooting server, server booted fine until the stage where I had to login into Windows.
Instead of getting login screen I got blue screen for fraction of a second, and then everything rebooted again. Read More