Rather than spending money, I decided to re-purpose my HP Proliant Microserver N40L boxes that I previously had FreeNAS deployed to for ISCSI storage for my ESXi Nodes. As one server is currently not presenting any disks, I decided to build 2012 R2 directly on to it and found that after the initial build, it…
As this is just a home lab, I do not require a full enterprise solution for networking. No fancy switches needed here (although I do own multiple Cisco bits and pieces but these wont be implemented). I have decided that I want to break the network down into the following VLANs. LAN/Management (192.168.1.x /24) Storage…
So the time has come to rebuild my lab which currently consists of a number of VMware ESXi nodes and a shed load of VMs. For the sake of this rebuild, all VMs will be trashed and will not be required (secondary DCs, Exchange, testing servers, files servers). I wont be going into deployment of…
So we’ve been there in the past… a domain controller fails, you’ve seized the FSMO roles and now you need to get it back online. Worst case, you need to rebuild but cant re-promote with the same name! Previously you would have to use NTDSUTIL to cleanup all metadata history left behind by the failed…
As you will know from my previous post, I have been paired with writing up a detailed design document for an AD Migration from 2003 to 2012. This also includes migrating the DHCP Server roles from Server 2003 to 2012 and introducing load balancing and failover. In order for me to document the approach (to…
This week, I was asked to document steps for an AD Migration from 2003 to 2012. Unfortunately I cannot go into too much detail about the project but what I can do is share some of the tools and scripts that I have created to help in the documentation. One of bits of information I…
For those who were following my blog previously, you may be wondering where all my posts have gone! My previous VPS provider had a RAID malfunction on there storage platform (apparently) and as a result, lost all of the data stored in the Amsterdam Datacenter. Which begs to me to ask the question… Why was…
Rebuild in progress – more info to follow.