Category: Windows

November 20, 2018

How to count number of objects in active directory

How to count number of objects in active directory How to count how may objects in AD? How many users, computers and group? Due to compliance or Asset/inventory/License management purpose we always need a count of system we have in our environment. If you are running Microsoft Windows platform and has Active Directory environment. So, best solution is “Get-AD” power-shell...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

November 14, 2018

How to Upgrade Active Directory from 2008/2012 to Server 2016

How to Upgrade Active Directory from 2008/2012 to Server 2016 Technology can’t be last forever, we have to keep moving on and have to be up-to-date. But the problem arise when we think to upgrade it has to be less risky and minimal of downtime. We always think of a way where low risks are involved. Today, we are going...

Categories Active Directory/Migration/Windows

October 17, 2018

Configuring High Availability on DHCP Server Role

CONFIGURING HIGH AVAILABILITY ON DHCP SERVER ROLE We always need a Failover or Load Balancer for our Network continuity (High Availability). Today I am going to discuss DHCP failover or Load Balance Scenario which will help us to give redundancy over DHCP failure.   Before we start configuring High Availability on DHCP Server Role in Windows Server 2016, just recap...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

October 4, 2018

DNS Error | A new record cannot be created

DNS Error | A new record cannot be created DNS Error | A new record cannot be created. An alias (CNAME) record cannot be added to this DNS name. The DNS name contains records that are incompatible with the CNAME record. If you are trying to create a new alias (CNAME) record in Windows DNS server and gets the DNS...

Categories Active Directory/Server 2008/Server 2012/Windows

October 3, 2018

Windows Cluster Interview Questions and Answers

Windows Cluster Interview Questions and Answers Here are some windows cluster Interview Questions and Answers for windows administrator What is Clustering. Briefly define & explain it ? Clustering is a technology, which is used to provide High Availability for mission critical applications. We can configure cluster by installing MCS (Microsoft cluster service) component from Add remove programs, which can only...

Categories Interview Questions/Windows

October 1, 2018

Arcserve UDP | A backup Solution

Arcserve UDP | A backup Solution We have many options available in market for daily Backups and recovery option , one of the option is ArcServe UDP (unified data protection) Solution.  It is an advance solution which almost provides neck to neck solutions of today’s infrastructure, whether it is virtual environment or Physical, Cloud or On-Premises, Agent or agentless backups,...

Categories VMWARE/Windows

October 1, 2018

What is RAID configuration in windows

What is RAID configuration in Windows RAID Configuration Learn about Intel RAID configuration. It includes all the RAID levels with diagram, very useful for to clear doubts for layman. RAID Level 0 requires a minimum of 2 drives to implement Characteristic & Advantages RAID 0 implements a striped disk array, the data is broken down into blocks and each block...

Categories Server 2008/Server 2012/Windows

September 26, 2018

Wintel Interview Questions and Answers

Wintel Interview Questions and Answers   1) Differences b/w Conditional Forwarding and Stub Zones. Ans:- Both do the same thing like forwarding the requests to appropriate name servers who are authoritative for the domains in the queries. However, there is difference in both, Stub Zone are Dynamic and Conditional forwarder are static. Conditional Forwarding –   Where you want DNS clients...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions/Windows

September 26, 2018

Active Directory Interview questions with answers

Active Directory Interview questions with answers Learn about basic Active directory functionality. Happy learning!!! Below are the Active Directory Interview Questions and answers. However there are more Interview question: Wintel /AD Interview Questions:- https://www.yourcomputer.in/wintel-interview-questions-and-answers Windows Cluster Interview questions :- https://www.yourcomputer.in/windows-cluster-interview-questions-and-answers Personal Interview Questions:- https://www.yourcomputer.in/personal-interview-questions-answers   What is Global Catalog and its function? The global catalog is a distributed data repository that contains a...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions

September 25, 2018

How to manually create an Outlook mail profile for Office 365

How to manually create an Outlook mail profile for Office 365 If we are using Office 365 and needs to configure a desktop Outlook manually, then below are the steps: Manually create new Outlook profile: Open the Start Menu and click “Control Panel”. Click Mail. 3. Click “Emails Accounts” 4. Select and Remove Old account (if any) 5. Click New 6. Click “Manual setup or additional...

Categories Windows

September 24, 2018

Backup and Restore Root CA to Windows 2012 R2

Backup and Restore Root CA to Windows 2012 R2 We may some time needs to move/recover/upgrade Root CA due to OS corruption/upgrdation or other requirements. It could be tricky task since we need to retain Private Key of Root CA otherwise it would create problem of issued Certificate and our organisation may face issues without root ca. So here we...

Categories Server 2012/Windows

September 24, 2018

How to check WWN and Multipathing on Windows Server

How to check WWN and Multipathing on Windows Server   How to check WWN and Multipathing on Windows Server? There are many ways to find the World Wide Name (WWN) of fibre channel HBA connected to windows server operating system Windows 2003/2000 1. Check  FCINFO (Fibre Channel Information Tool) for windows 2003 & windows 2000 servers This tool is to...

Categories Windows

January 29, 2018

Windows AD Account lockout numerous time a day

Windows AD Account lockout numerous time a day Here are the steps to troubleshoot the AD account lockout issue occurring numerous time a day. It will cover to trace the bad computer name from where account is locking out and steps to clear the cache You can use tool like eventcombMT to connect log on other dc’s and look for...

Categories Active Directory/Windows

July 5, 2016

System Admin Interview Questions for Software Development Organisation

Nowadays, we have many Job profiles in Product Development Companies that require somewhere around all-rounder profiles for System Admins. For that they require Network, Windows, ESX, IIS etc. experts to handle there day-to-day work. So, below are some basic Interview questions specifically for the System Admins working for Product Developments companies where they need to interact with Developers, Tester and DBA:...

Categories Active Directory/Interview Questions/Windows