Yet another blog about Monkeys and IT
Windows Server 2008
Manually configuring IP addressing in Windows via Command Prompt
Apr 8th
As a system administrator in any enterprise IT environment the ultimate goal is to insure system uptime and the consistent availability of network resources. Any delay of service, misconfiguration, system downtime, security breach.. etc will have a huge impact on the employees productivity. Time is not calculated by minutes or hours, it is calculated by dollars and how much the company loses within the down time of IT services, and believe me, there is always someone should be blame in these cases, try not to be you.
As for Linux users command line is the fastest and preferred way to configure, modify and fix any problem in no time. Yet in Windows environment most administrators prefer the GUI method to get the job done. However, Windows can be administrated through command line as well; Windows server 2008 Server Core supports strong command line management capabilities. (more…)
Windows activation problem – code 0x8007232B
Apr 6th
When you try to activate Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Enterprise, or Windows Vista Business (Windows Server 2008 in my case) using volume-licensed media you may receive the following error message:
Windows Activation Error: A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error Code 0x8007232B. For a possible resolution, click More Information. Contact your system administrator or technical support department for assistance.
Clicking “More Information” will display the following message:
Error Details
The following information was found for this error:
Code:
0x8007232B
Description:
DNS server failure .
Configuring DNS Zones
Feb 20th
DNS Zones types at a glance:
DNS has a hierarchical structure tree called “DNS namespace” that allows it to support any size of networks (The local network, the Internet for examples) without any concerns about scalability. The root domain can have many subdomains and the subdomains can have other sub-subdomains.. etc. Any organization can use private DNS namespace within the organization without making it visible to the outside (internet) .
Domain name servers DNS store information about portion of the domain namespace called a “zone” which is a contiguous portion of the (more…)
Installing DNS server on a standalone or member server
Feb 16th
DNS Domain Name System (or Service or Server) is a name resolution service that resolves (interpret, translate) human friendly addresses such as nj180degree.net into IP addresses such as 172.16.10.1, this process is usually called Name Resolution.
Without name resolution it would be quit a hassle to locate the exact IP addresses of your resources in an IP internetworked system to access them especially when you run a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol service on the network that will change the IP addresses of your networked devices quit constantly. (more…)
Change UAC behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators
May 11th
User Account Control (UAC) is enabled in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default. Every time an Administrator trying to configure, change or apply different configuration tasks this service will prompt for permission to continue. By clicking Continue in the dialog box the Administrator would grant this permission. (more…)
Windows Server 2008 Hardware Requirements
Apr 27th
When determining hardware requirements to install and run Windows Server 2008 and any application or services you are about to run on the server, you need to focus on three hardware resources with keeping in mind the rule “The more the better”: (more…)
Promote Windows Server 2008 into a Domain controller
Apr 4th
Promoting Windows server 2008 via command line into a domain controller are pretty straight forward procedure. That is true for the first Domain Controller in the Forest. However, If you planning to deploy a second Domain Controller, which is best practice since the second DC provides redundancy for user account data and helps distribute the load for authentication and global catalog, there are some prerequisites you need to be aware of before you promote your server into a Domain Controller DC/AC which are not discuses in this post. (more…)
