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This part in the SCCM Lab series will cover installing and configuring the DHCP and DNS Server roles on our headless Windows 2019 server we configured in Part 1. Here we go. The DNS server was created when AD DS role installed the root forest. We can see that the DNS role is installed using the Get-WindowsFeature command:…

I am currently setting up a new SCCM testenvironment in my home-lab – this will be one of (possibly) many quick-n-dirty how-to’s for setting up a functioning SCCM lab. First things first – the lab wil consist of Server 2019 and Windows 10 servers and clients. The SCCM version used is SCCM current-branch 1902. All…

One of my servers in my labenvironment refused to gently reboot after installing a ton of patches that I.. uhm.. forgot to install. The “restart-computer -computername DC1” cmdlet wouldn’t do anything, as it returns with : Restart-Computer : Failed to restart the computer dc1 with the following message: A system shutdown is in progress. Figures,…

I wanted to modify the delayed start time threshold for one of my services. If you want to tweak your delaytime, do the following in regedit: 1. Open Regedit. 2. Navigate to your service, in my case it was HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesPlexService You should see that the “DelayedAutostart is set to 1. 3. To increase the default…

I have some machines in my lab at home that, due to heavy testing and other stuff, reboots often. Some of my applications are dependent on the user beeing logged on to function properly – so instead of manually logging on each time my server boots, I fiddled around in registry to make the domain…