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Chocolatey
join.me
Veeam Backup
Winaero Tweaker
Microsoft IIS
Server Fault
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
WireGuard
Let's Encrypt
AV-TEST
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Nmap
Cloudflare
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Run a benchmark, https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
For me, isp and Google were fastest but we went with 1.1.1.1 for the added benefits, it was 5ms slower the ISP and 2ms slower then Google. But we are still talking 4ms, 7ms and 9ms respectively.
if you want to pay for one beyond compare - http://www.scootersoftware.com/ works pretty well If you script a bit you can try
From their web site:
Use Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition to protect up to 10 VMs — or a combination of VMs, cloud instances, physical servers or workstations
Chat support also confirms it.
Not a plugin but I can recommend Graylog with Winlogbeat (from the elkstack). Its a very mighty combination but its still quite easy to use and setup. I once wrote a small docker-compose script which basically spawns a ready-to-rock instance of Graylog. You can check it out here.
One option could be to use an Intel Ethernet server card if you have an available PCI slot.
I have also found that the SIIG USB 3.0 Gigibit dongle works on Server 2022 without adding any drivers. I don't know anything about it's performance, I just needed it for a management LAN. SIIG also has a USB C Ethernet dongle that I would expect would run at full speed.
You're not even scratching the surface with Windows Server with what you're trying to do right now.
Pick any of the Administrator Reference Books on Amazon; there's a reason they run to almost 1000 pages of technical information. And why the MCSA certification consists of 3+ books.
You will learn Active Directory by doing it hands on, but you would be limited in what you can learn by just stumbling around without any structure.
Microsoft used to have an entire certification built around Active Directory.
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>if I go to school I'll forever be in debt
You don't have to go to university to learn Active Directory. Stuff like this can usually be found in courses taught at your local technical college. You can also look at Udemy.com for self-learning options.
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>Now about domains can I create a domain within my home network or do I have to go out a buy a domain name from a distributor
You don't necessarily need an internet-facing domain for Active Directory. If it's for internal use, you can just use any term you want when you are provisioning the first domain controller.
I use a raspberry PI to host a VPN service and I use WireGuard to connect to the VPN to access my home systems while I’m away from home or not on the WiFi
I’m sure there are Windows alternatives but I wouldn’t recommend hosting this on Active Directory server unless you’re happy with losing data in the event of a breach
https://www.wireguard.com/install/
You’ll have to open a port on your firewall for this to work so make sure you have a decent firewall
Guys just download everything from voidtools, install and run as administrator inside option add all the network folders you want to be included in search and before make sure that you are logged in on all network PCs and Servers you want include into search and that's it :D after indexing you can instantly search every file across all PCs and Servers on Domain. So this software saved me about 7 days of boooooring work :D
Interesting. Ok so the app needs a gui because thats the only way to interact with it, I think. Its a trading card game. I tried running it on a single vps and accessing using rdp, but it was too slow. I did try to put it on a docker-ubuntu container using wine and playonlinux, and had some success with it, but it wouldnt log in, and it wound up using 100 percent of my cpu to run it. Im guessing because like you said, its a virtual machine. So I am wondering if it might actually work on a linux system after all. Will have to try it.
But What I was wondering, is can I just have the app running on my vps and only access the app. A while back I was playing around with openproject (https://www.openproject.org/) and the way it worked, is it ran on a specific port that you can access from the browser by going to the serverip:port. Then it would display its app in your browser.
The way I was using the docker container was similarly using an internal ip and exposing port 22. Xserver listens on this port and when you run the app it pops up your window. (i set it to pcmanfm).
However both of these were on linux. I dont know how to do it on windows, if its even possible. The big advantage to doing it this way is you dont have to render the entire desktop gui, just the app window.
I would discourage you from opening any windows computer with RDP to the internet even with a non standard port. You would be much better off with a form of mobile VPN that securely connects you to the remote network. If you do not have the infrastructure for that, use teamviewer or screenconnect free.
However, if you want to change the default listening port for other reasons, you will need to change a registry key. Here is a helpful article.
I’m not sure if there is a ‘proper’ way but I’ve used two methods successfully in the past. WinPE + ADK: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/dn938386(v=vs.94) Unetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/
I prefer the latter because it’s far quicker. Also remember to sysprep your golden image before capturing.
I know I have done this this in the past, but its been years. Either way I did a Google search. I hope this is different from what you found and help you out.
http://serverfault.com/questions/440326/users-are-getting-a-temporary-profile
GL!
Nightly off-site backup is a batch script that compresses, encrypts, and uploads via ftp to a whitelisted CentOS box in a datacenter. For fun I tried to set up the ftp server as an IIS machine, but hit the wall and went back to what I know.
Here's the nmap scan.
6716@host ~ $ nmap xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-02-09 11:01 CST Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.17 seconds
6716@host ~ $ nmap -Pn xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-02-09 11:02 CST Nmap scan report for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Host is up (0.044s latency). Not shown: 999 filtered ports PORT STATE SERVICE 21/tcp closed ftp
RDP connections are non-default port.
Good point on adding a big factor against change based on effects of a crash.
Hmm, I thought I sent you a message about offering up a join.me session, I guess not! If you're comfortable with it, https://join.me/storagethere (I'm drinking a glass of fine wine, sitting on my computer doing nothing important), my name is Charley Hinton if you want to put a name around the trust. Otherwise, I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding that's going on at this point, and I don't think the back and forth is going to get you anywhere very quickly!
If you do a screen share, have both systems up in the window (one local, one in RDP), already authenticated, I can bounce in between the two while you watch, and probably figure the problem out pretty quickly. I can give you a summary of the WHY afterwards, and you'll be smarter for tomorrow!
I know this may be out of line... but do you want to jump on a join.me and knock this out right quick?
https://join.me/storagethere ... I know this is a general trust/security issue, but I think I can figure it out. :)
For anyone unaware, sql developer edition is a free version of sql enterprise. You can do anything and everything with it, as long as it's not production or running anything public or client facing for production needs.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads