Step by Step DHCP Failover in Windows Server

What is DHCP Failover? enables two Microsoft DHCP servers to share service availability information with each other, providing DHCP high availability. DHCP failover works by replicating IP address leases and settings in one or more DHCP scopes from a primary DHCP server to a failover partner server. All scope information is shared between the two […]

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How to monitoring DFS Replication in Windows Server 2016

DFS Replication monitoring it’s very important task for every IT Pro which use it because we can avoid data loss or unexpected replications that we don’t want. In previous article describe How to install and configure DFS Replication in Windows Server 2016 to create a Disater Recovery solution for your File Server or when have Branches and you need to […]

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Migrate DHCP Between Windows servers

There are two ways how you can assign IP addresses to hosts in your computer network, including static and dynamic addressing. Static addressing is manually assigning IP addresses to your hosts which consume much more time and decrease the productivity of IT Administrator. We are recommending you to use dynamic addressing using DHCP (Dynamic Host […]

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Server Migration – FRS Error DFSRMIG Domain Controller

Verification of replica Failed. The Specified domain ….local is still using File Replication Service (FRS) to replicate the SYSVOL share. FRS is deprecated. The Server being promoted does not support FRS and cannot be promoted as a replica into the specified domain. You must migrate the specified domain to use DFS Replication using the DFSRMIG […]

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Lets Encrypt SSL on Synology Nas

Prerequisites before starting A domain name of your own, such as cliftonsystems.co.uk . If you don’t already own one I recommend registering one. DDNS service configured. I’ll be using the Synology DDNS service as it’s free and I already use it. Create a CNAME DNS record with your registrar to forward requests to your DDNS […]

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How to install a Let’s Encrypt SSL cert on Microsoft IIS

If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. Thankfully, there are now nearly a dozen different tools that make adding a […]

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Remove Floppy Disk Drive in Windows Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows server come with Client Hyper-V so you can run a supported guest operating system inside a Virtual Machine. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s native hypervisor for Windows. It was originally developed for Windows Server 2008 and then ported to Windows client OS. It has improved over time and is present in […]

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