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Windows Server: KMS client behind firewall

Posted by Ivan
/ June 28, 2013 / 2 Comments

Software Protection windows service is responsible for managing activation with KMS (Key Management Server). In the last couple of months I have been working on deploying and managing Windows Server 2008 R2 VM’s running behind the firewall. The VM’s are sitting in a dedicated VLAN that allows certain network traffic...

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Windows Server: how to permit users to log on remotely to a domain controller?

Posted by Ivan
/ July 27, 2011 / 7 Comments

Active Directory Domain Controller (AD-DS) is an important Windows Infrastructure role. In some circumstances you will have to provide remote access (RDP) to your helpdesk- and/or support personnel to connect to those machines. For me I needed to develop a plan to allow non “Domain Admin” personnel to remotely connect...

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Windows Server 2008: NTLDR is missing

Posted by Ivan
/ December 30, 2008 / 13 Comments

Couple days ago I imported one of my VMs into ESX server. This VM was created with VMWare Workstation and itworked fine before. After VMWare Converter was finished I boot up the machine. The boot process failed and stopped with the message below: Oeps my NTLDR boot record was missing...

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Windows Server: SSH remote console with freeSSHd

Posted by Ivan
/ December 3, 2008 / Leave a comment

If you are managing routers, switches and linux machines then sometimes it makes sense to install a SSH daemon on your Windows machines. I installed freeSSHd daemon which is free on couple of my Windows Server 2008 machines. Loading my Windows machines with SSH I have an unified way of...

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Windows Server: How to remove Security Updates and WSUS cache?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 25, 2008 / Leave a comment

This morning my Cacti appliance warned me that a windows system volume was getting above 90% of used disk space. A while ago I configured this to get notified with an email. When partitioning this Windows server I didn’t plan the disk configuration. My current problem is that server has...

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