Questions tagged [microsoft]
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The optimal setup for Remote Desktop Access for Windows Server with MS office for multiply users
I need to setup Remote Desktop Access for multiply users (up to 10 users) with MS Office accessible for all users.
I already have:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Licence (1 License)
Microsoft Win Rmt Dskt Svcs CAL 2008 (10 Licenses)
Microsoft…

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PHP performance benchmarking between Windows and Linux
I'm trying to look around for any reliable PHP performance benchmarking test between Windows Server vs Linux. To be specific, this is what I'm going after:-
PHP 7.2
Windows Server 2012
Linux Ubuntu
I have read in various online resources proclaiming…

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MS Azure VM drive mess
I'm new to Azure and I already hate it :D
Anyway, I'm trying to do a simple task - create a VM with 8 cores, >=8GB RAM, 128GB drive (gonna run Ubuntu server on it). Just ONE OS drive. Nothing else.
Now, when I create a VM, it gets assigned a 32GB OS…

Ondřej Kučera
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Image Capture Removes Internet (NIC) Adapter Driver
I am running Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2016. I am trying to capture a Windows 10 v1809 reference image from a Lenovo M710q NUC.
I edited the unattend answer xml file and added the following attributes to generalize and…

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Any way to customize/limit/set Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing service port?
Recently I had a weird problem on one of the Windows Server 2016 servers where Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing service / TermServLicensing occupied port 1541 & prevented another critical 3rd party service from starting.
Is there a way to…

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Good Reasons for Not Disable the Windows SMB Service by Default?
Apart from File Sharing what are good reasons to not disable the Windows SMB service by default on a corporate environment?
This protocol seems to have a lot of security vulnerabilities and been using extensively for malicious lateral moves within…

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Migrate to two-tier PKI (Microsoft)
Currently, I have one online enterprise root-ca (and issuing certificates - default templates) that installed on DC (yes, yes I know - worst case scenario). I set another offline not joined to a domain server, 2 IIS servers under LB and 2 enterprise…

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How to get infromation about disk location (like in diskmgmt.msc) via Powershell?
could you please help me how to get disk location number which can be found via Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) for future VMware SCSI Disk devices assosciation via PowerShell or any other native scripting language from Microsoft?
Example:
From…

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microsoft exchange removal. Is it possible?
I have a 2013 server with exchange installed that I want exchange removed, I only use this server for it's active directory function to control login to connected pc's and as a file server. I no longer use or want the email services, How can I…
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Best way to handle Leavers? - Office365 Enterprise E3
I manage a tenant of about 30 users.
I have three accounts that belong to past employees, and I don't know what to do with them. They have long since left, but our firm has a Data Retention Policy that requires all emails kept indefinitely.
I have…

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Mac OSX Sierra, Out of the blue, User logs into the domain, and everything in the account is gone
Never have seen this before, but just had a user log into his domain account, and it's like he is logging into his account for the first time? This user has been logging in for months now with no problem. Usually when this happens, it creates a…

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Domain integration with Active Directory
Am new to Microsoft Active directory and tried referring the guides for one of the activity. But still not clear how we can achieve it. Scenario goes as below..
Our company has an Active Directory environment with Root Domain as abc.com and then…

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Reading windows nltest /server /domain_trust output
I'm looking to get a quick accounting of how many trusts we have in our AD environment so I used nltest /server: /domain_trusts /all_trusts
It's easy enough to figure out where the 1 and 2 way trusts are but I can't find…

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Troubleshooting issues joining computers to a new'ish domain - meaning when built six months ago joining worked
I'll begin with a cold-start with some background at the end.
While adding a computer to domain 'MyDomain.local' an error occurred:
An Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for the domain
"mydomain.local" cound not be contacted. Ensure that…

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Unable to create a script that list shared link for SharePoint that I am not owner or member
I am looking for a script that lists all shared links for one (or all) SharePoint sites, got one that you can specify the site, put your credentials and it generates a CSV report. Works fine, but I need to give myself permissions on this site to get…

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