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Month: May 2020

Active Directory: Managing Users

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 by Michael Molenda

In this blog post, I will go over managing users in an Active Directory environment. Figure A. From the Server Manager, select Tools. Under tools, select Active Directory Users and Computers. Figure B. Active Directory Users and Computers Dialog. Here you can see my created domain, molenda.hme. This is where the users and computers will…

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Promoting a Windows Server 2016 to a Domain Server

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by Michael Molenda

In order to create the Lab environment for Active Directory, the server must be promoted to a Domain Server. In this blog post, I am going to show how I promoted this server to a domain server while installing Active Directory Service. The first thing we must do is assign a static IP address. Severs…

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Installing Windows Sever 2016 in VirtualBox

Posted on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020 by Michael Molenda

This is a post on how I accomplished installing Windows Server 2016 (Evaluation Version) in VirtualBox on an iMac. At the end of the post, I will share with you my sources that I used to help me accomplish this task. Additionally, there will be at least 2 more entries in this series of posts:…

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Gaming on Windows (on an iMac and Custom Built PC)

Posted on May 10, 2020August 3, 2022 by Michael Molenda

First thing is first, we have to dispel the “Apple Tax”. Let’s look at the 3 systems below. System 1 (iMac i9) is the reference Mac in this article. This is the high-end model with the Core i9. Of note, the machine at this price has only 8GB of RAM. I upgraded to 24GB. System…

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