Free VEB/Veeam Endpoint Backup solution to backup physical servers

April 19, 2017 by Munkhtuvshin Baatar
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Not everybody knows that recently Veeam starts to support backup of physical servers, workstations directly to the same Veeam Repository in already existing VBR/Veeam Backup and Replication  infrastructure.

If you already have ready VBR than it’s logical to backup not to mobile USB hard drive (default target of VEB) and so on, but to VBR repo. To restore i recommend to use WDS – because boot.wim in generated recovery disk easily can be imported into WDS (and all necessary NIC and storage drivers added in std way thru WDS). WDS can be on other server – just during restore process … Read the rest

If you are prudent sysadmin and keep enabled UAC

April 11, 2017 by Munkhtuvshin Baatar
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It’s recommended never to disable UAC/User Access Control  (there are many instructions to disable it for piracy programs downloaded from the internet, and unfortunately in Mongolia almost all computers even in enterprises have disabled UAC in windows)

The main reason to have enabled UAC is ability for the sysadmin to run installation and system configuration commands without re-login during remote or interactive sessions on asked help workstation. According to the best industrial practices you need to exclude any end user from workstation Local Administrators (depriving rights to install non-authorized programs and change/damage system configurations). If you disabled UAC then there … Read the rest

If you experience problem with pxe to re-image workstation/server thru WDS/windows deployment service

April 11, 2017 by Munkhtuvshin Baatar
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Sometimes you cannot use pxe to boot from WDS and re-image your computer (pxe damaged or you need to re-image in the field far from WDS and office LAN). In this situation you may:

  • export necessary WDS image to wim file
  • you will need 16gb usb flash drive (depends on the size of your customized in WDS system image)
  • create by windows usb tool ordinary Windows 7 USB install disk
  • rename your wim file to install.wim and copy it to USB “sources” folder just replacing existing install.wim file
  • if you now start booting from a such USB disk you will
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How to purge everything from shared folder every night

April 6, 2017 by Munkhtuvshin Baatar
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Perhaps you have in company shared folder for exchange of non-confidential large files, temp files and so on.

To clean every night this folder :

  • create on d disk folder stack/buffer or whatever you like,
  • share it
  • schedule bat file with following content: 
    rem "Be carefull to be inside of stack folder!!!!"
cd d:\stack
d:
del * /s /q
for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /s /b /ad') do rmdir /s/q "%%d"

IMPORTANT: Be very careful with this script, if you run it in improper place you will delete everything recursively !!!… Read the rest

Facts about Active Directory to help understand it and properly use.

March 6, 2017 by Munkhtuvshin Baatar
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  1. AD is the basement/heart/glue for all Microsoft (and not only Microsoft) server products. Almost any Microsoft solution is based on AD as a prerequisite. Therefore it’s common misunderstanding and misuse that AD is considered only as side effect (or even as lesser unavoidable evil :)) of implementation of other Microsoft systems like MS Dynamics NAV, Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint. It means you cannot install Exchange without pre-installation and pre-configuration of AD. As a result of a such wrong approach to AD many companies don’t use Active Directory appropriately, some of them completely don’t understand what is the main role of AD
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