MDT: enable monitoring

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In MDT, it is possible to activate the monitoring, which makes it possible to follow the deployment of the stations and to have a progress report from the console. The state of the deployments is kept for 3 days. Activation of the monitoring To enable monitoring, right-click on the MDT share and click Properties. Go …

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Sophos XG : add a vlan

In this article, I’ll explain how to declare a vlan on your Sophos XG firewall. Before you create it on the firewall, you must make sure that the port of the switch where the firewall is connected is tagged. Go to the firewall administration web interface, in the left menu click NETWORK 1 . The …

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Install WSUS with a SQL Server database

Since Windows 2016 server, it is possible to install the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) directly with a SQL Server database. In this article we will see how to proceed. Prerequisites To install WSUS with a SQL Server database you need: Windows 2016 or 2019 server for the WSUS role An instance of SQL Server …

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Windows 10: Install an IIS web server

Console IIS

In this article, I will explain how to install an IIS web server on a computer with Windows 10. IIS is a Web server developed by Microsoft that is also available on servers. The version installed on the client is called IIS Express, it is perfect for testing locally. Installation IIS on Windows 10 1. …

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Sophos XG configure a DHCP relay

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Présentation A DHCP relay is a service that listens for DHCPDISCOVER frames to transfer them to a DHCP server. The DHCP relay avoids installing a DHCP service by network segment (MPLS, VLAN …). Before configuring the relay firewall, the DHCP service must be an IP range for the segment where the relay will be configured. …

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Windows Server : view open files on network shares

In this article, I will explain how to view from a Windows server open shared files / folders. There are two ways to access open files / folders in either graphical or command-line mode using PowerShell. PowerShell List open folders / files: Get-SmbOpenFile Result : FileId SessionId Path ShareRelativePath ClientComputerName ClientUserName —— ——— —- —————– …

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Installation and configuration of replica storage

Storage replica

Storage replication (storage replica) is a feature that comes with Windows Server 2016 that lets you replicate a volume to another server. To work the feature requires two volumes per server. The first for storing data and the second for logs. Storage replica works on the principle Active / Passive. The data is accessible only …

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Sophos XG: installation on Hyper-V

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In this tutorial, we will have how to install a Sophos XG firewall on a virtual machine with Hyper-V. For this article, I used the Sophos XG home version which is available for free. Prerequisites Download the ISO firewall on the site sophos and recover the license key that will be sent by email. Create a …

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GPO: Run a script when the computer starts

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Presentation In this article, we will see how to set up a script that runs at startup of the post using Group Policy (GPO). The advantage of using this type of script is that it is executed with the Administrators rights, which makes it possible to launch software installations on the workstation without any elevation …

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