Hello and welcome to another article on Azure App Services. Previously, we wrote an introduction to Azure App Service and we followed up with an article on how to deploy a web app using Azure App Services. Today we will talk about App Service Plans. An App Service Plan consists of the underlying virtual machines […]
Welcome to another article on Microsoft Azure App Services. I hope you enjoyed my previous article, which was an introductory one that helped us create an Azure App Service. In this article, we will deploy a Web App in our Web App Service environment and show you the different ways you can go about doing […]
Hello and welcome to an introductory article on Microsoft Azure App Services. Azure App Services is a common Azure Service offering that is based on the PaaS model, or Platform-as-a-Service. What is PaaS? I’m glad you asked! First, let’s go into some history. Initially, Azure was offering their Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform where you could build VMs […]
Occasionally, we are hit with an issue and we need to boot the Domain Controller in Restore mode or we just need to perform a defragmentation on the NTDS database. In this article, I’ll walk you through the process of using the bcdedit command to perform a defrag on a NTDS database. Defragment NTDS Database […]
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In this article, we will talk about Account Password Policies and how we configure them domain wide with a more granular approach of per-user password policies without using Group Policy. So first off, let us talk about Group Policy configuration for password complexity and requirements. The downside of group policy settings is that it is […]
In this article, we’ll be talking about identity management in Windows Server 2016. Specifically, we will be talking about SPNs (Service Principal Names) and how wonderful they are. First of all, an SPN is like an alias for an AD object, which can be a Service Account, User Account or Computer object, that lets other […]
Recently I’ve come across some issues with one of my Windows Server installations, which was behaving relatively odd. Big surprise, right? After doing some digging around, I’ve come up with a complete set of commands that checks the system health and repairs any corruption that may have occurred with system files. Feel free to run […]
by File in: VMWare
Every once in a while we run into a big problem when we install a brand new ESXi server only to come to find that for some reason we don’t see any HBA adapters, even though we’ve used the customized image with all the drivers and so forth. I usually see this happening in HP […]
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The following article will show you how to install and configure a FreeRADIUS server on top of an Ubuntu host. RADIUS is used as an authentication server for users who connect and use a certain network service, such as VPN. RADIUS is a networking protocol that provides Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA). This means that […]
The following article is a walkthrough on using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.1 to migrate a physical server to a VM on the Hyper-V platform. The first step is to go and download the MVMC tool at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=42497. Once downloaded and installed, go to the Start Menu and fire up the tool. To start, we […]
