This weekend we had a few internet connection issues at home. As the in-house IT guy, I had a natural obligation to fix the issue right away. After all, my wife, son and his two sisters needed their connections restored. I worked to diagnose the issue and later resolve it. It was about 30 minutes […]
Hello Friends, there is 24 hours on the clock and my son has surpassed his original goal with help from others. I am asking those of you who haven’t had a chance to donate to pitch in on this noteworthy cause. Because together we can make a difference. AJ has done an excellent job in spreading awareness […]
VMware just released PowerCLI 10.0.0. and before you ask; I thought they were just on version 6? I wondered the same and here is the answer: The decision to move to version ten was a marketing choice as the PowerCLI project recently celebrated its 10th birthday. Let’s get into the how to install or update to the […]
To lower my memory footprint in my home lab I decided to move from into Windows Server 2016 Core. That said running Active Directory Domain Service seems to be the perfect candidate to start with my new architectured lab environment. There are several prerequisites required for enabling ADDS, but I am not going to get into […]
In my previous post ‘Windows Server 2016 Core Configuration, with SCONFIG‘ I stepped through how to use the sconfig tool to modify settings on Windows Server 2016 Core. In this post, I will introduce you to how to go about running Windows Updates and applying them to your server. Here are the steps I used: Log into […]
Windows Server 2016 Core has a built-in configuration tool named Sconfig. This tool is used to configure and manage several aspects of Server Core installations. This simplifies tasks such as changing settings such as network, remote desktop, hostname and domain memberships, etc. To use the Server Configuration Tool Log into the console of your Windows Server […]