Current work on Desktop Management software made me do this quick guide on how to open some ports for all computers in your domain via GPO.
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How to backup and restore with Microsoft DPM
We went through installation and configuration of Microsoft DPM 2019, now it is time to finally create backup job and test it. I will be going only through data backupa nad recovery (AD, File, Exchange and SQL) I will not be covering bare metal backup/restore here. I usually don’t use Microsoft DPM for bare metal restore, I have other tools in store for that.
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Making IIS website Highly Available using IIS ARR and Microsoft NLB
I wrote recently in details tutorial on how to make IIS ARR and NLB while I was at the Microsoft Exchange topic. This guide will be shorter with only main points on how to make your IIS website highly available. This is not reverse proxy guide, so have that in mind. Let’s get to work.
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How to export DNS Zone from one Windows Server and import to another (Non-AD DNS)
We are quickly just going to go through how to export DNS server zones from one Windows Server (I’m testing on 2019) to another. This is not for AD zones, this is short guide that is valid if you have simple DNS server which is not part of Active Directory.
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DFS File Share- File Conflicts and lost data
I already went through scenarios where we installed DFS and made it highly available. In my article about clustering DFS I mentioned that downside of DFS cluster is potential data corruption and loss due to ability that two people work on the same file at the same time – the is no file lock. There is simple cure for this, but far from perfect, and at the cost.
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