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Tag: Microsoft

  • Migrating DHCP configuration to a MS Windows Server domain controller

    My current office environment relies on MS Windows Server 2008 R2 system as its primary domain controller (PDC), handling Active Directory-based user management and authentication, DNS and DHCP services. We have a secondary system as backup, which stays in-sync with the AD and DNS services; DHCP is, of course, not activated on the secondary so as…

  • Microsoft does Linux (sort of)

    Historically very anti-Linux (to the point of litigation), Microsoft has begun to embrace the open source OS, in its own way, out of pure necessity – the cloud computing boom has completely altered the requirements for back-end servers and software, requirements that typical MS Windows products aren’t built to support. Personally, though I realize this is…

  • I can’t believe it: I’m actually excited about Microsoft

    I, like many in the tech world, have come to see Microsoft as this lumbering, somewhat outdated, juggernaut. But Wired magazine’s latest issue puts the spotlight on new CEO Satya Nadella and his efforts to essentially obliterate the outdated worldview of Steve Ballmer. I was particularly taken by the profile on the HoloLens technology they’re developing. To my…