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By Joe Davies September 12, 2012
Test lab guides (TLGs) allow you to get valuable hands-on experience with new products and technologies using a pre-defined and tested methodology that results in a working configuration. When you use a TLG to create a test lab, instructions define what servers to create, how to configure the operating systems and system services, and how to install and configure any additional products or technologies. A TLG experience enables you to see all of the...
By Active Directory UA Docs September 7, 2012
This article is presented here to enable those outside of Microsoft who are interested and knowledgeable on this topic to improve it. Firewalls present two difficulties when deploying a distributed Active Directory (AD) directory service architecture: Initially promoting a server to a domain controller and Replicating traffic between domain controllers. Active Directory relies on remote procedure call...
By Tony Soper September 2, 2012
The base material for this article is from the free Microsoft Press ebook Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter by Mitch Tulloch. The book lists best practices for physical servers hosting Hyper-V roles, but perhaps there are more. This is your opportunity to help. Can you expand/edit these best practices or add more based on your experiences?...
By Ed Price - MSFT August 28, 2012
This article explains how to flag or report a user account that you see in any TechNet or MSDN tool, including: TechNet Wiki, Forums, Blogs, Gallery/Samples, and Library Annotations. You might want to flag an account that is abusing the system in the following ways: Inappropriate name, rude, or are using crude words, or a Spam account (the account's only purpose is to advertise)...
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