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Windows 10 includes really useful tools and utilities that can help us when administering the operating system. We’ll mention some of them here Windows Accessories In Windows 10 we still have well-known Windows Accessories folder. It is available in Start Menu > All Apps > Windows Accessories. Here we see classics like Notepad, Paint, Math Input … Read moreUsefull Windows 10 Utilities
Win32 refers to the traditional desktop software that we’ve always installed on our PC. All of the software that we download from various websites on the Internet, or we buy on a CD are called Win32 apps. When dealing with Win32 apps, we have to make sure that they don’t have viruses. Typically Win32 apps need UAC permissions to … Read moreDifference Between Win32 (Desktop) and Store Apps in Windows 10
When we want to strengthen the security of the system, we we need to follow some basic guidelines. For hardening or locking down an operating system (OS) we first start with security baseline. Then we have to make sure that we’re using file systems that supports security, keep our OS patched and remove any unneeded services, protocols or applications. In general, … Read moreGeneral guidelines for securing operating systems and networks
Let’s join our Windows 10 computer to our utilizewindows.com active directory domain. This way our users will be able to log on to that computer using their own domain account. We already have our Windows Server 2012 active directory installed and domain configured, and now we want to join our Windows 10 workstation to that domain. … Read moreJoin Windows 10 to the Domain
We already talked about AD infrastructure and common AD objects. Now let’s see how to install a domain controller using Windows Server 2012. In the older versions of Windows Server we would go to command prompt and type dcpromo. That doesn’t work anymore and we will get this warning if we try to do that. We see that the … Read moreWindows Server 2012 Active Directory Installation
In Active Directory domains we have active directory objects. In this article we will mention basic objects, the ones we’ll probably work with on a day-to-day basis, but there are more of them. We already talked about Active Directory structure, but here we talk about objects. User User account is what allows ur to log on to the domain and access … Read moreCommon Active Directory Objects
The base unit of Active Directory is a domain. Let’s say that we want to create a utilizewindows.com domain and set up our first domain controller (DC). Once we do that, we have an active directory infrastructure with our single domain controller. We can then add other domain controllers and other components of active directory, but we start with … Read moreActive Directory Structure
Active Directory can really simplify our life, compared to other network systems. Let’s say that we have our regular computer that we log on to and we have to memorize our username and password for that computer. Maybe we also have a database server which we have to access as well, which has a totally separate and … Read moreActive Directory Advantages
We already wrote about Fiber Channel, and if you remember, the default configuration for using a Fiber Channel system is to install a fiber channel card in our server and connect it to a Fiber Channel switch using fiber optic cable. All the transmission between server and the storage device goes through fiber-optic cabling. We can, … Read moreWhat is Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
As we said in Permissions and Ownership article, all files are owned by a user, a primary group and a world (everybody, others) group. If we list directory content with the command: ls -l we can see examples of the ownership. In our example, we created these files as the cicnavi user and that’s why the files … Read moreChange Permissions For Files and Folders in Linux