Category: Windows Server

Move Hyper-V VMs Between Hosts Using Live Migration

The Live Migration feature in Hyper-V allows you to migrate a running virtual machine between hosts with almost no downtime. Initially, Live Migration in Hyper-V was only available as part of a Windows failover cluster with CSV shared storage. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Live Migration doesn’t require a cluster and shared storage. To migrate VMs, Hyper-V hosts need to be connected using a fast shared Ethernet network. This type of migration is called a Shared-nothing live migration.

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How to Completely Uninstall Microsoft SQL Server?

In this article, we’re going to look at a number of ways that you can uninstall a Microsoft SQL Server instance on a Windows computer. This article applies to all supported versions: Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2017/2014/2012.

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hMailServer: Installing a Free Email Server on Windows

hMailServer is a free open-source email server for Windows environments. hMailServer – can be installed on any edition of Windows (on desktop versions from Windows XP to Windows 11 or on Windows Server 2003-2022). hMailServer is a compact and powerful server, the distribution of hMailServer is only about 5 MB (!!!). E-mail messages are stored on the local hard drive in the MIME file format.

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Install and Configure NFS Client on Windows

The Network File System (NFS) client is not installed by default on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2 and Windows 11/10 desktop versions. To install it, open the Server Manager and select Add Roles and Features -> Client for NFS.

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How to Rename a Domain Controller in Active Directory?

If you try to rename an Active Directory domain controller the way you rename domain member computers/servers (by using the sysdm.cpl console or the Rename-Computer PowerShell cmdlet)), a warning will appear:

Domain controllers cannot be moved from one domain to another, they must first be demoted. Renaming this domain controller may cause it to become temporarily unavailable to users and computers. For information on renaming domain controllers, including alternate renaming methods, see Renaming a Domain Controller (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=177447). To continue renaming this domain controller, click OK.

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Install Linux Integration Services (LIS) on Hyper-V VM

If you are deploying a Linux virtual machine on a Hyper-V host, you must install Linux Integration Services (LIS) in the guest operating system. Hyper-V Linux Integration Services allow the guest OS to interact with the host: send its state to the hypervisor, perform backups via VSS, correctly reboot and shutdown the Linux guest. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to install Hyper-V Linux Integration Services on popular Linux distros – CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu.

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Domain Controller Crashes on Boot with Stop Code 0xc00002e2

After an emergency shutdown of a physical server with an Active Directory domain controller role, the BSOD with an error stop code 0x00002e2 appears on boot. The error points out that the Active Directory database (NTDS.DIT) is damaged. In this article, we will figure out how to fix the ntds.dit file and start a domain controller (in our case, it is a server running Windows Server 2019).

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