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Microsoft | The-Server.Ninja The-Server.Ninja Server Admin by day… Server Ninja by night… Menu Skip to content HomeAbout Search Search for: Microsoft Build your own computer defence shield: security infographic May 12, 2016May 12, 2017 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Build your own computer defence shield: security infographic for you to print out and keep: This security infographic will offer you a few pointers when plaintive up the security of your network. Continue reading → Advertisements Happy World Backup Day!!!! Mar 31, 2016Nov 3, 2016 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Today’s the day!  World Backup Day! There used to be a saying, only two things in life are certain.  Death and Taxes.  Well, this is the computer age.  Add nonflexible disk failure and data loss to the list! Continue reading → Windows Deployment: Advanced Part 3 –SuburbaniteInjection. UPDATED for 2018. Jul 26, 2015Mar 26, 2018 / Severn / 1ScuttlebuttIn this article, I’m going to show you how to maintain a suburbanite library within MDT and use one Task Sequence for all hardware models. Separate your drivers out to stave conflicts and reliability issues. This moreover makes it easier to update manufacturer drivers. Continue reading → Windows Deployment – Advanced – Part 1. Performing Domain Joins Securely Jul 18, 2015Jul 25, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt In the first of this new multi-part series, I will show you how to take you Windows Deployment to the next level. (For this series, we're thesping your running Server 2012 R2 with the latest updates, and the latest release of MDT 2013). This vendible looks at locking lanugo the os.deploy worth that you use to automatically join computers to the domain. So, let us modernize the security of the mdt join account. This worth which we have specified in CustomSettings.ini (Windows Deployment, Part 1: Configuring the Deployment Environment) and which is used by MDT to join the target computer to the domain. If we leave this worth as a Domain User, then MDT will be worldly-wise to join the first few computers it installs into the domain but then will goof to join any others. This is considering by default Domain Users can only join 10 computers to the domain. In our initial article, we made the worth a member of the domain admins group – of course, perfectly winning in a lab environment, but not so in the real world. This is considering of these three facts: The domain admin password is visible in the customsettings.ini The domain admin password is sent in plain text wideness the network The domain admin password is temporarily stored on the remote pc So, how do we overcome this?? Continue reading → 60 days to go: Is this the biggest security threat of 2015? May 14, 2015Jul 24, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt The clock is ticking…. With less than two months from now, Microsoft will stop supporting Server 2003, leaving many businesses with a major security headache. From July 14th 2015, Microsoft will no longer issue security patches for Server 2003, leaving it unshut to an overly increasing risk of virus, spyware and malware infection, not to mention a plethora or security holes permitting hackers to proceeds wangle to a businesses network (67% of IT security breaches happen with businesses employing less than 100 staff). Continue reading → Enable Hyper-V replication between two workgroup servers May 13, 2015Jun 27, 2017 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Hyper-V replication is an essential ‘server availability’ tool for any organization. Whilst it is not a substitute for good backups; it will indulge you to restore an up-to-date reprinting of your virtual servers very quickly, should your primary host hardware fail. In this tutorial, i have built two Windows 2012 R2 servers using a pair of old Dell Optiplex 580’s (AMD Phenom CPU, upgraded to 8GB RAM each), and a single 8 port Netgear GB switch. The Primary server name is: Truro The Secondary server name is: Exeter Lets get started… Continue reading → How to reset a forgotten server admin password… May 2, 2015Mar 19, 2018 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt A few weeks ago, we had a undeniability from a merchantry who’s IT support visitor had gone AWOL. This left the merchantry with a server they were unable to wangle – you see, the IT support visitor hadn’t provided their consumer with any passwords or documentation for their server. So, when we got the call, the visitor I work for did as any good IT support merchantry would…  we donned our superhero capes and got stuck in….   Here’s how you do it: Continue reading → 99 days to go…. The End of Server 2003 is upon us. Apr 5, 2015Jul 24, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt With less than 99 days to go until Microsoft stops supporting Windows Server 2003,  it really is time to ‘let it go’. It was the OS of nomination when in 2003, but has long since surpassed by the likes of Windows  2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2. With every iteration of Server release, every full-length of Server 2003 has been improved time and time then (if your using standard edition, support from increasingly than 4GB ram is a useful feature). Continue reading → Happy 40th Microsoft! Apr 3, 2015Apr 3, 2015 / Severn / Leave a scuttlebutt Happy Birthday Microsoft – turns 40 on 4th April 2015. Set up in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has brought well-nigh massive technological innovation to the world.   Not every innovation has been good over the past 40 years, but equally, some things Microsoft has brought well-nigh have really impacted our lives in a positive way. To celebrate, we’re going to take a squint at the 5 weightier and worst things Microsoft has given us (or inflicted depending on your point of view). The Worst: Clippy – That worrying little ‘helper’ that Microsoft bundled with Office way when surpassing time began. Clippy liked to offer translating (presumably such as “save often, Windows ME is going to bluescreen!)”. As useless and worrying as Clippy was, thinking back, he (or she) was the precursor to the likes of Cortana and Siri. Windows Vista, Late, slow, and particularly unpleasant.   People today mutter well-nigh the Windows 8 start screen, requite Vista a try and you’ll never have a dig at 8 again. It was truly horrible. There were some nice features well-nigh Vista… somewhere…  I’m sure of it….. Internet Explorer. Ok, IE11, is probably not too bad (most home users have long since move over to the likes of Chrome and Firefox). But I’ve seen IE6 lingering virtually in the corporate world for far too long considering large corporations and public sector organizations (such has council’s) haven’t updated their lawmaking to support modern browsers. It’s probably the real reason large corporates haven’t rushed onto the likes of Windows 8. Those old IE6 only websites and intranets are holding things back. Whilst it wont help end IE6, roll on Project Spartan! Marketing strategy for the utterance of Xbox One. Oh god. What a underdone train wreck that one was. I literally could not think of a worse way to introduce a product, save smearing it in dog poo. Xbox is a underdone sunny platform and the product should have got the introduction it deserved. It’s a testament to the platform and engineers that the Xbox One is doing as well as it is! Windows ME. If there’s one thing in the Microsoft universe worse than Vista, is Windows ME. Cobbled together at the last-minute to gloat the millennium (Windows 2000 wasn’t ready for consumers), ME was slow, buggy and pretty crap (it was crap – no wreck well-nigh it).  It was moreover last OS based on the old and creaky 9x / DOS platform… The Best: Well that’s the worst out-of-the-way.  Lets take a squint at the top 5. Windows 95. 95 ushered in a new era for Microsoft, and the world. Gone was the tile based Windows 3.1, 95 introduced a slick interface and start menu – the understructure of what you’re seeing today in Windows 8, and Windows 10 (10 is an incubation of the ideas that began with Windows 95 all those years ago).  95 may have had its issues but boy did it transpiration the squatter of the PC world forever. Windows XP. After the disaster that was ME, XP was the first consumer OS to ditch the old clunky 9x / DOS platform and embrace the future that was NT. That OS’s time has long since passed, but unbelievably, some 20% of the world computers are running it (No doubt part of this is lanugo to IE6 and a huge list of old clunky websites that wont work without it). Xbox. 2001, Microsoft went from zero to hero overnight. Launching their first iteration of console, leading the way with internal storage, seated Ethernet and a year later launching Xbox live. You could now play online versus people the other side of the world. Xbox has wilt so successful and popular Microsoft has created the Xbox panel over 3 generations. Sure the Japs hate it, but what do they know, they eat raw fish.  😉 Surface. Believe it or not, I love the Surface range. Granted the arm based versions are now sufferer in the water, but I defy anyone not to fall in love with a Surface pro 3! Slick, Exciting and totally worth the cash.  Now just to convince the superabound we need the 84″ version for the workbench room 😉 Hyper-V. First there was virtual server. It was crap… next up, Hyper-V. Early iterations were a bit lacking, but very quickly Microsoft improved the platform and has unfurled to modernize and innovate over the last few years. Hyper-V isn’t something non IT people will see. But it’s there, every day, either your likely using products and services running on it at work, or indeed when you fire up your Xbox one which has a version of Hyper-V at its core. For me,  Hyper-V has to be one of the weightier technologies to come out of Redmond.  No longer am I hosting 70+ physical servers in a small sweaty room, cowering the corner when the sun comes out. Today we’re lanugo to three physical servers in a cluster,   70+ virtual servers running on that cluster.   We can hands and quickly ‘move’ a virtual server from one physical server to flipside dropping nothing increasingly than a ping. Not only that, we’re worldly-wise to replicate a VM to a remote server, and alimony it up to stage within 5 mins. Even better, we can ‘build’ VM’s in just minutes. Gone are days of getting upkeep approval, ordering new server kit, waiting 2 weeks for it to arrive, finding space in the server cab, racking the hardware and maintaining it. For an IT manager or server admin, that’s bliss. Notable mentions. Steve Ballmer, crazy wild-eyed once CEO of Microsoft who seemed to like nothing increasingly than literally raving on stage. Crazy. Wild. Brilliant. Steve, in a way, we miss you. Azure, hasn’t made the cut yet, but soon, Azure – visualization and software as a service in the deject is going to transpiration everything. Holo-lens.  Virtual reality meets reality…  Crazy, cool.. Has the potential to transpiration the world.  Maybe…. So there you go, the top 5 weightier and worst things of Microsoft… We’ve seen plenty of good stuff over the years, but most of it Joe Public never gets to see, whether it’s storing their email, letting them log onto their work computer or hosting websites, there’s been plenty of good stuff. Thanks for the last 40 years Paul & Bill. Happy 40th! 50.503630 -4.652498 How to standardize your visitor email signature Feb 26, 2015Jul 24, 2015 / Severn / 1ScuttlebuttOften, companies have a mismatch of email signatures. Nothing standard or manageable throughout their business.   There are software applications that can assist, but they can be costly. In this post, i will detail how to roll out a standard email signature using nothing increasingly that a vb script, group policy and a little elbow grease with regards to your Active Directory. Lets begin: Requirement:  To implement a standard email signature throughout your organisation Solution: Create VB script to pull data from Active Directory and set it as the users default signature within Outlook (tested in Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013). Continue reading → Search for: Recent Posts Powershell – Creating Active Directory User Accounts: with an Office 365 mailbox Jan 11, 2018 GDPR – Getting Started Dec 19, 2017 Windows 10 v1709 Deployment Nov 16, 2017 News: Windows Server 2016 RTM. Now misogynist on the MVLS portal! 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