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Lync
Install and Configure Windows Server for Lync Server 2013
In this post we will see how to install and configure Windows server for Lync Server 2013. I will cover the steps to install Active Directory Domain Services, Certificate Authority. Before you begin, please take a look at Lync Server 2013 features. Before we configure Windows Server for Lync Server…
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Lync
Step By Step Installation Of Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition – Lab Setup.
Installation Of Lync Server 2013 Installation Of Lync Server 2013 In this post i will be providing the information on the lab setup used for Installation of Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition. The Domain name for this lab is PRAJWAL.LOCAL. If you are setting up a lab, choose your own…
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SCCM
Configuring Discovery and Boundaries in SCCM
Once you install Configuration Manager, the initial configuration usually begins by configuring discovery methods. You want SCCM to discover the resources present in your network. SCCM comes built-in with several discovery methods. Most of them are not enabled by default. In this post we will see how to configure SCCM…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Install SCCM 2012
In this post I will cover the steps to install SCCM 2012. This post is a part of SCCM 2012 installation guides. After installing prerequisites, configuring firewall exceptions, SQL server installation, it’s now time to install Configuration Manager 2012. If you want to install SCCM 2012 from scratch, here are…
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Complete Guide to Configure SCCM 2012 Firewall Exceptions
In this post I will cover two important concepts. The first one is installing WSUS and the second one SCCM 2012 firewall exceptions. I must tell you that you can install WSUS after installing SCCM as well. You might see a warning during SCCM 2012 prerequisite check. However I prefer…
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SCCM
Guide to Install SQL Server for SCCM 2012
This post covers the steps to install SQL server for SCCM 2012. The Configuration Manager site database is a SQL Server database that contains data about your SCCM infrastructure and objects. It also contains the information about client systems you manage, and other discovered resources. Before installing SQL server, find…
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Installing SCCM 2012 Prerequisites
Welcome to the post that covers installing SCCM 2012 prerequisites. If you have landed on to this post, let me brief you about it’s related posts. This post is a part of SCCM 2012 installation in lab setup. Before we install SCCM, we have to first install Configuration Manager prerequisites.…
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SCCM
Create System Management Container, Extend AD Schema
In this post I will show you how to create system management container. I will also cover the steps to extend the active directory schema. This post can be considered as part 2 wrt deploying SCCM in our lab setup. In the first part I covered the steps to install…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Install Active Directory For SCCM
In my previous post I covered on how to install SCCM in your lab setup. In this post I will cover how to install Active Directory for SCCM. Note that this is the first step in the process of deploying SCCM. You can either choose to install Active Directory Domain…
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