It is always a good idea to reduce hardware dependencies by moving your data to the cloud. Cloud is much more flexible than traditional hardware infrastructure including VMWare. But you still have to consider the ability of recovering data as and when required. This always helps you to keep your business running with minimal interruption. In AWS, there are several
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First official Windows 8.1 tablet in India lunched by Acer
Acer announced the Iconia W4, successor of the Iconia W3 back in October. Today, the company launched the tablet in India. The Iconia W4 has a 8-inch (800 x 1280 pixels) multi-touch IPS display, powered by a 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel Atom Bay Trail T processor with integrated Intel HD Graphics and runs on the latest Windows 8.1. It comes
Restrict Creator/Owner from altering NTFS permission
Target: Restrict creator / owner from altering any NTFS permission on newly created files & folders. Scenarios: Regardless of NTFS permissions, the owner, which is by default the person who creates the folder/files, can always alter the permissions. This actually causing a lot’s of problem, with this special privilege users can also block inherited permission and alter current permission. This
NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS
Most of us using TAKEOWN or ICACLS for taking ownership from command prompt, and both of them are simple to use. We generally use TAKEOWN or ICACLS with following switches to taking the ownership. takeown /F “PATH” /R /D Y /A icacls “PATH” /T /setowner Administrators But unfortunately, TAKEOWN & ICACLS both might failed on certain scenario, as there are
How to stop extracting/viewing users details from AD
There are several tools/script available for extracting all user information from AD. Any domain users can access this information by default. For an example, using following attached .vbs script, we can dump entire AD users base to a excel file with following fields.
WINDOWS 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER on VMWARE
For windows 2003 cluster, check my old tutorial on following link. https://technochat.in/2008/11/configure-cluster-on-vmware-using-iscsi/ Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Requirements: 1. Two Systems with Same Hardware Configuration. 2. Two Network Card 3. Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition on both systems with same patch level. 4. Active Directory 5. Shared Storage( SAN or iSCSI) 6. Both servers should be the member of same domain.