Category Archives: Studying
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Active Directory 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration – Part 4 – Checking AD Health and Transferring of FSMO Roles
Posted on April 26, 2016 by Michael in Latest News, Studying, TutorialsNow that we have a newly deployed shiny 2012 R2 Domain Controller, BEFORE delving in and transferring the FSMO roles, you really should run another AD health check against the environment to make sure the new DC is actually replicating and servicing AD correctly. To do this I’m going to run the exact same […]
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Active Directory 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration – Part 3 – Deploying, Prepping and Promoting 2012 R2 DC
Posted on July 18, 2015 by Michael in Latest News, Studying, TutorialsWell it’s been a while since I last had some free time to continue this set of blogs, (Server 2003 has just as of this week gone end of life so now more than ever it’s time to get away from 2003 if you’re still running it!) This is the part where you can […]
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Active Directory 2003 to 2012 R2 Migration – Part 2 – AD Health & Pre-Requisites
Posted on February 5, 2015 by Michael in Latest News, Studying, TutorialsRight then now we get to the business side of things. Before diving head first in to a migration, we need to make sure the current environment is in a “migrate-able” state. It’s always wise to run a few of the support tools on your environment to make sure AD is in a good and […]
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Introduction to DHCP – The Basics
Posted on August 22, 2014 by Michael in IT Basics, Latest News, Studying, TutorialsCarrying on with the basics sessions, next up we tackle DHCP…. What is DHCP? DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a standardized networking protocol used on IP networks that dynamically configures IP addresses and other information that is needed for Internet communication. DHCP allows computers and other devices to receive an IP address automatically […]
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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Server 2012 – Managing Storage Part 1 (70-417)
Posted on February 18, 2014 by Michael in Latest News, StudyingWell It’s been a while since the last PowerShell blog, and already over a month in to the new year so about time I picked up on this serious of blogs. For the first blog of the new year, we will be looking at managing storage via Server 2012 mainly: New Features Configuring iSCSI […]
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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Server 2012 – PowerShell V3.0 Part 2 (70-417)
Posted on November 17, 2013 by Michael in Certifications, Latest News, StudyingWell firstly, thank for the great feedback I’ve had from PowerShell Part 1 – It’s quite clearly a topic of interest for many people, and having been on the Exchange 2013 course this week it’s something I’m going to be covering again when I get round to the study blogs for Exchange 2013 as that […]
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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Server 2012 – PowerShell V3.0 Part 1 (70-417)
Posted on November 10, 2013 by Michael in Latest News, StudyingPowerShell…I’m sure we’ve all heard of PowerShell by now and most likely know it’s a scripting language of some sort…. Now as there is a fair amount I want to cover on PowerShell, I’ve decide to split the blogs into two parts, so in this part we are going to be looking at some of […]
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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Server 2012 – Monitoring and Maintaining Server 2012 (70-417)
Posted on November 3, 2013 by Michael in Latest News, Studying, TutorialsFor part 6 of this series I’m going to take a look at one of the most important areas when it comes to IT systems and that’s monitoring and maintaining server 2012. I’m sure I don’t need to explain why it’s important to monitor your systems (and also the importance of doing so) – correctly […]
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Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Server 2012 – Server Core Basics (70-417)
Posted on September 29, 2013 by Michael in Certifications, StudyingUh-oh, it’s that “scary” time…Server Core. Hopefully the following basics will show you and put to rest any issues people may have with server core. Personally for some types of server this is perfect, but anyway lets crack on. Following on from the Server GUI Basics post, it’s time to have a quick look at […]
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