Engineering Stability in an Automated World

Moving FSMO Roles

Why is it necessary to move FSMO roles?

In an Active Directory environment, not all Domain Controllers (DCs) are the same. Although most tasks are …

FSMO Role Function

FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) roles are critical roles in an Active Directory environment that are assigned to one or more domain …

How to extend the disk when there is another partition in between

You’ve probably experienced this: you expand a virtual disk in Proxmox or VMware, go to Windows Disk Management intending to extend your main …

Exchange: How to Install Exchange Server

At this point, we should have completed the following:

• Extended the Active Directory schema
• Prepared the domain for Exchange
• Installed the …

Exchange: How to Install Exchange Server Prerequisites

For security and performance reasons, it is recommended to install Exchange only on member servers and not on Active Directory servers.

In this …

Exchange: How to Prepare Your Domain for Exchange

Exchange uses Active Directory to store information about mailboxes and Exchange server configurations in your organization. Before installing …

Exchange: How to Extend the Active Directory Schema

In this post, we’ll see how to extend the Active Directory schema and prepare it for an Exchange installation.

The Active Directory schema is a …

Exchange: Verify AD Requirements for Exchange Server

Before starting any configuration, we must verify the Active Directory requirements to begin installing Exchange in our environment.

The minimum …

How to Upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Ubuntu is one of the most popular and reliable Linux operating systems on the market, and one of its most widely used versions is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS …

How to Get Free SSL Certificates from Let's Encrypt with Certify The Web

First, let’s briefly explain why SSL certificates should be used and what Let’s Encrypt is.

In today’s digital world, online …