Navigating Microsoft’s Authentication Policy Pain

By ivan

Recently I was struggling with the counterintuitive Microsoft Authentication Policy & Silos, therefore I decided to share my precious discoveries and maybe save someone from the tremendous authentication policy pain, also to save a note…

Lazy Exchange On-Premises Mailbox Creator

By ivan

One of the ways to use shared mailbox with exchange is to grant “Full Access” and “Send As” access through security group. With the latest exchange security group must be universal and mail enabled. Recently…

PowerShell TimeZone, Date and So On

By ivan

If someone ever wondered how to change time, timezone or date in a powershell session or in a core server here is how. If today is 27 May 2017 and we want to set the…

SharePoint 2013 Instalation Tips

By ivan

Studying for SharePoint 2013 exam, I’ve decided to install it in my lab and as usual I had some issues. I was thinking to use SQL server on premises used for SCCM 2012 R2 test…

Tested guide for upgrade 2003 domain to 2012

By ivan

Raise domain/forest functional level to 2003 Domain is raised from AD users and computers Forest is raised from AD Domains and Trusts Prepare AD for 2012 The command adprep is located on your Server 2012…

Proxmox Post Install +

By ivan

My ProxMox Adventure – what I did so far Installed from CD (described in the previous post) Added additional 7200rpm, 2tb hard drive for storage purposes Created Several VM’s server core 2012 as s DC, DNS,…

Proxmox Setup – First Steps

By ivan

Before continuing below, please note that I have zero execerience with Proxmox and did everything googling and so on, therefore I do not pretend anything – this is more or less my own notes made…

Barebone home VMWare / Proxmox / Virtualization

By ivan

My First Steps With Proxmox   Last night I started installing Proxmox (Version: 3.3-a06c9f73-2) on my new barebone home server: Motherboard – Supermicro A1SRM-2758F-O RAM – KVR16LSE11/8 – 2x8gb kit PSU – Corsair CX Series…