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Microsoft introduced Fine-Grained Password Policy for the first time in Windows Server 2008 and the policy has been part of every Windows Server sinc…
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NIC Teaming, also known as Windows Load Balancing or Failover (LBFO), is an extremely useful feature supported by Windows Server 2012 that allows the…
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides some great automation benefits for those organizations that can afford the hefty price tag. Ho…
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Tombstone is a container object that contains the deleted objects from Active Directory. Actually when an object is deleted from Active Directory, it…

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Linux - Unix
So far we have covered in great detail the main files required for the firewall.cx domain. These files, which we named db.firewall.cx and db.192.168.0, de…
Linux - Unix
Like any other software, an operating system needs to be updated. Updates are required not only because of the new hardware coming into the market, but al…
Linux - Unix
In a multi-user environment like Linux, every file is owned by a user and a group. There can be others as well who may be allowed to work with the file. W…
Linux - Unix
The db.192.168.0 zone data file is the second file we need to create and configure for our BIND DNS server. As outlined in the DNS-BIND Introduction, this…

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