It seems like I’ve always got a few different environments running in Hyper-V, each with their own DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, etc. running in them. And in today’s cloud-connected world, they can’t […]
Setting up independent environments in Hyper-V
My guide to setting up Windows Server 2019 for VPN (with no guarantees that it will work)
Sadly, I can remember setting up my first Remote Access Service (RAS) on Windows NT Server 4.0. It was a very simple process: First you added the Remote Access Service in network […]
Publish Certificate Services CRL and OCSP sites to the internet using Azure App Proxy
I have set up a variety of test domains over the years, and inevitably I need to set up Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) on them because I need to issue certificates […]
Configuring time zones, part 2
As I mentioned in the preview blog, RFC 4833 describes a mechanism that delivers time zone information via DHCP, but Windows 10 doesn’t include a mechanism for automatically consuming this information. But […]
Disk Deduplication: A great feature for lab environments
I have a reasonably powerful workstation that I’ve been using for testing and validation for many years, an HP z800 Workstation with 8 CPU cores, 96GB of RAM, and 4TB of disk […]
