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How to disable Virtual Machine Generation Identifier (VM Generation ID) on Domain Controller on Hyper-V 2012
What is VM GenerationID identifier? Very simple description of the VM Generation ID is that Generation ID is a protection of your Active Directory against restore of a checkpoint (snapshot) of a virtualized Domain Controller (DC). As you can imagine if you restore a checkpoint of a DC (you do not restore a backup, you […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 installation – Simple deployment
This is simple deployment on the one highly available (clustered) VM. This is not guide for the highly available (fault-tolerant) deployment. For complex deployment please continue to the next article. Install and configure SQL Server Highly-available databases in AlwaysOn Available Groups I recommend you to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Available Groups for […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – High-level design – Active Directory
It is not always easy to divide Low-level Design and High-Level Design. How to differentiate between high-level and low-level design depends on the entity that we refer to. When we need to design our cloud then high-level decision could be for example choice of the technology that makes our SQL Servers highly-available. But when we […]
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 5 – DNS configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. DNS Servers Your serves point to your DNS servers (your DCs) so you may change configuration of the DNS servers. Bug in Windows Server 2012 – […]
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 4 – Advanced configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Create a central store for GPO administrative templates You should do this for every domain that you create because it is always easier to do that […]