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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • December 11, 2024

Hyper-V Host as a Domain Controller: A Bad Mix Explained

Understand the risks of running Hyper-V and Domain Controller roles on a single server, including resource contention and potential performance issues.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • October 19, 2023

Windows Server 2025 and new features that are in

Microsoft is cooking up something big with Windows Server 2025, and we’re here to give you the inside scoop.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • December 20, 2022

Join a Linux VM to Active Directory using SSSD

It is recommended to use SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) as the authentication method of choice for joining Linux VMs (in the newer OS versions) to Active Directory. SSSD allows you to connect local systems to external ones, as well as access remote directories and authentication mechanisms safely.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • January 18, 2022

Group Policy vs. Microsoft Intune Configuration Profiles and how to migrate

Remote work isn’t going anywhere. With that in mind, the legacy means of provisioning services and enforcing policies and governance for end-users often fall short of standard in terms of remote workforce. Microsoft Intune Configuration Profiles attempts to provide an alternative for ensuring compliance when it comes to a hybrid work environment.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • June 17, 2021

Configure Conditional Access to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication to access Azure Portal

You can increase your Azure Portal Security by configuring Conditional Access, an Azure Active Directory (AD) Premium P1 feature, to enforce multi-factor authentication. The feature collects various signals from user IP location to group membership, allows you to see them in real-time, and decide whether to allow or deny application access to AD or allow limited access.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 10, 2021

Quick tips to defend your backups from ransomware encryption and deletion

There are various options to ensure backup safety today. The 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies of data, on 2 different media, 1 of them being off-site) is a must. But it’s not enough. Keeping your backups in an independent network separate from Windows Active Directory, privilege managing, using backup software, like StarWind VTL — these and other extra steps are necessary to ensure thorough data protection.
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Karim Buzdar
  • Karim Buzdar
  • May 25, 2021

How to integrate a Linux system with Windows Active Directory

There are many cases that may entail meeting points between Windows and Linux environments. Such may involve enrolling Linux systems into a Windows domain, configuring a Linux domain as a peer to the Windows one, or simply copying information between them. Whatever your goal is, we’ve prepared a clear guide on how to join the two.
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Alex Khorolets
  • Alex Khorolets
  • March 25, 2021

Replace Your Manual Microsoft Certificate Enrollment With Auto-Enrollment

Everybody knows how tedious it may be working with self-signed SSL certificates. That’s why it’s easier to add the Microsoft Certificate server role to your Active Directory. However, manual certificate enrollment is not so handy when there are dozens of users within one IT infrastructure, and if that’s the case, it won’t hurt to learn how to cut a corner or two!
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • March 11, 2021

VMware Horizon: grant permissions in Active Directory

Having a controlled minimum set of permissions in your Active Directory (AD) will ensure nothing will slip during clone publishing. Otherwise, VMware Horizon, when instant clones are published, can make unwanted corrections in the AD service account while creating computer objects in the target organizational unit. You don’t want that.
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