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Setting up an authoritative DNS in Windows Server 2008

July 11, 2013 Windows Jesin A 3 Comments

Nowadays all major domain registrars offer managed DNS service along with the domain name(s) you register with them. You can use them to create most of the commonly used DNS records like A, MX, CNAME and some even allow you to create AAAA(IPv6), SRV and TXT records. But if you want full control over the DNS of your domain(s) its better to setup your own server for DNS hosting.

Setting up a full fledged authoritative DNS server is not so difficult as it sounds. If your know how DNS works you can easily setup your own DNS hosting server to host an unlimited number of domains. In this article I’ve setup an authoritative DNS server using Windows Server 2008 R2.Continue Reading…

How to setup a VPN Server in Windows Server 2008

November 20, 2011 Windows Jesin A 8 Comments

This article will explain the procedure for setting up a VPN server in Windows Server 2008. The VPN protocol used will be PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol). The method outlined here uses an environment consisting of an active directory server, a DHCP server, few workstation PCs and a VPN server. Configuration of the VPN server alone is explained in the following steps

How to prestage a computer in Active Directory

September 28, 2011 Windows Jesin A Leave a Comment

This tutorial explains prestaging a computer object in the Windows Active Directory database. Prestaging means to add a computer to the Active Directory database before joining the computer to the domain. By prestaging a computer you can make sure the WDS (Windows Deployment Services) server responds only to known computers. By default if you join a computer to a domain the computer object is created in the Computers container, even though you can move it to another container later, by prestaging you can place the computer inside the container of your choice even before joining it to the domain.Continue Reading…

Active Directory User Creation Script

June 20, 2011 Windows Jesin A Leave a Comment

Bulk User creation in Active Directory is made easy with the VBScript given here. Thousands of users can be created at the click of a button. Lets go step by step creating this script. Open notepad and save it by typing “create-users.vbs” INCLUDING the double quotes. This will create a file with a .vbs extension instead of .txt. Then type the following code.

set objCON = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Users, DC=example, DC=net") Set objUser = objCON.Create("user","CN=User1") objUser.Put "sAMAccountName", "user1" objUser.SetInfo()

This will create an user with name “User 1” and login name “user1” in the active directory domain example.net in the Users container. By default the user account will be disabled to create account and enable them using the script itself add the following code to the end of the code aboveContinue Reading…

How to setup roaming user profiles in Windows Server 2008

June 4, 2011 Windows Jesin A 5 Comments

Read this tutorial to configure roaming profiles for user accounts in Windows Server 2008 in an Active Directory environment. Roaming profiles have the advantage of users have their personal settings and files available on all computers they login to. But the only problem is increased network activity during logon and logoff. Roaming profiles work by copying the user’s profile to the client computer on which the user logs on and when the user logs off the files are copied back to the server. Folder permissions and policies have to be configured properly to ensure the privacy of user files are maintained, while the administrator is able to have access to the user profiles.Continue Reading…

Setting up Network Load Balancing (Single Network Adapter)

September 1, 2010 Windows Jesin A 5 Comments

Network load balancing is an excellent feature of the Microsoft Server Family operating systems. It allows the setup to make use of a single IP address to balance the load between two or more machine. In this article I’ll explain step by step on how to setup network load balancing on Windows Server 2003 using a single network adapter. For testing whether this configuration works I’ve setup IIS (Internet Information Services) but testing can also be done some other way.

The basic requirements for setting up Network Load Balancing:-

Two or more servers running the same service (e.g. IIS)
Both the servers should have a Windows Server Operating System installed.
IIS should be installed and running on both the servers.
The IP addresses for both the servers should be static i.e. manually assigned (DHCP should not be used)Continue Reading…

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