Enterprise certification authority: installation and configuration with Windows Server

In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up an enterprise CA that is linked to an Active Directory, unlike the stand-alone CA. This type of CA allows you to automate certificate generation with direct submission to the CA. Automatically issue computer and user certificates to, for example, secure VPN access with Windows NPS. …

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Hyper-V : install on Windows Server

Console Hyper-V

In this tutorial, we will have how to install Hyper-V on Windows Server (2012R2/2016/2019). Hyper-V presentation Hyper-V is the Microsoft hypervisor, built into the Windows server since the 2008 64bit version. Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, that is to say that the hardware resources (CPU, RAM, network cards …) are managed directly by it, …

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Active Directory : increase the functional level of the domain and the forest

The functional level of the domain and forest corresponds to the “version” of your Active Directory environment and allows access to more or fewer features depending on the level of each. Mainly this level change occurs when upgrading to Windows when replacing / migrating domain controllers. The version change may also be necessary for the …

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DFS : installation and configuration – Distributed File System

DFS

The namespace of DFS makes it possible to provide shared, which are on different servers under the same name.

Instead of accessing a shared folder with the \\server-file\ computer address, we will use an address of the type \\domain-name\ share\ computer. The user will be redirected transparently on the “server-file” server.

In a simplified way, in the folder \\domain-name\share will be shortcuts to other shares that are several servers and this in a completely transparent way for the user.



Deploy an RDS Farm Windows 2012R2/2016/2019

This tutorial explains how to deploy an RDS farm with Windows Server 2012R2 / 2016/2019.
An RDS environment makes it possible to offer users a working environment on servers.
An RDS farm is composed of several servers with the following services: broker, web access and remote desktop session host.
This tutorial covers the installation of all of these services and the configuration of the RDS gateway.