Happy New Year vBrisketeers! I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I thought that I would share a blog with everyone about a Microsoft project that I recently completed at work. This article describes the parallel migration from Directory Synchronization (DirSync) to Azure Active Directory Connect. The migration I performed consisted of my current server that hosts DirS... »
Hey fellow vBrisketeers! I hope all is well, as we ramp up for our big event later this week at the Pittsburgh Beer Market (BTW, it’s not too late to REGISTER NOW) I’ve been spending time this past weekend playing with the latest Technology Preview (TP) #4 of Windows Server 2016. Well first off you need to visit the Windows Server TechNet Evaluation Site to register and download the la... »
For those folks that have upgraded their environments to the latest release of vSphere ESXi (Version 6.0) critical issues are becoming to become quite the norm. For years VMware was known for their solid QC processes and their releasing of Production ready hypervisor releases…UNTIL vSphere 6. The latest issue was announced this past week and is contained within vSphere 6.0 Update 1a. VMware ... »
Earlier this Spring 2015, it was announced that the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2016 will support Nested Hyper-V instances. Woot woot, sounds of rejoice are echoing through the virtualized data center! One of the very few drawbacks of Microsoft Hyper-V was that you could not run a Hyper-V host as a Guest on a physical Hyper-V host. This is known as nested virtualization, and is a “feature... »
Note: this post has been originally published on Veeam Blog Read the full series: Ch.1 – Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services Ch.2 – Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Ch.3 – Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services Introduction This blogpost is the third in a three-part series on AD (Active Directory) administration best practices. Have you ever had the horribl... »
Note: this post has been originally published on Veeam Blog Read the full series: Ch.1 – Protecting the Active Directory Domain Services Ch.2 – Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Ch.3 – Recovering the Active Directory Domain Services Introduction Every component of the Modern Data Center requires authentication of some form or fashion. Microsoft’s Active Directory Services... »