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If you are looking for the good old AT command on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or newer OS, you will notice that the command has been deprecated. Instead you should check out the schtasks.exe command line tool, that also is a pretty powerful tool.
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Everyone are talking about Windows 10 and if it will be free or not and for who. Microsoft is actually working on another big OS release named Windows Server 2016. Just as with Windows 10, it is already available for test under a Technical Preview program. Windows Server 2016 is expected to be released in the last quarter of 2016. In this post I will take a look at what is new in the upcoming server OS from Microsoft.
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In this guide, I will show you how you can import images to Active Directory that your users Outlook clients will show in an Exchange and MS Lync environment making it all more interesting.
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The last couple of days I have been testing the new Windows server 2012 Operating System from Microsoft. As you maybe already know it is built on the same code platform as Windows 8 also introducing Tiles instead of the classic desktop from earlier editions of Windows Server. Just like in Windows 8 the classic desktop is still there, but the Start Menu has gone. If you want to test it yourself you can Download a free 180 days evaluation copy of Windows Server 2012 For my test environment I use VMware Player to create a virtual…
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In this post I will tell you about the Operations Master Roles in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). If you are a System Administrator working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) it is important that you understand the 5 Operation Master Roles in Active Directory. When you work with multiple domain controllers or maybe even a multidomain Active Directory installation it is important that you know how the 5 master roles in AD works. The 5 roles can be put into 2 categories: Forestwide, and Domainwide. The forest-wide roles only exist…
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