Digital Video Recorder

A DVR, which is also known as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) is basically a digital replacement for the video cassette recorder (VCR) for recording TV programs. The key difference between a VCR and a DVR is that the latter can record TV programs digitally. Apart from the advent of High Definition TV (HDTV), the…

Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point (P2P), point to multipoint, or mesh wireless…

Installing Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2

Method #1 – Through the GUI Probably the easiest for this specific role. I would use this method. 1. Open Server Manager, wait for it to load. 2. Click on “Roles”, wait for it to load. 3. On the “Before you begin” page, click “Next”. 4. In the “Select Server Roles” page, click to select…

Configure DFS NameSpace on Windows Server 2008

The DFS NameSpace will be the client facing aspect of DFS and what really makes life easier for the end users. Having a common namespace across your enterprise for the users to share files will cut down on support calls and make collaboration on documents a breeze. Let’s go ahead and configure a DFS Namespace…

Install and configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2008

1. Open Server Manager and click on Roles in the left pane and then click on Add Roles in the center pane. 2. Depending on whether you checked off to skip the Before You Beginpage while installing another service, you will now see warning pages telling you to make sure you have strong security, static…

Installing Windows Server 2008 DHCP Server

Installing Windows Server 2008 DCHP Server is easy. DHCP Server is now a “role” of Windows Server 2008 – not a windows component as it was in the past. To do this, you will need a Windows Server 2008 system already installed and configured with a static IP address. You will need to know your…

Install ADDS in Server 2008

STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO SETUP ACTIVE DIRECTORY ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008 Requirement: Minimum: Single processor with 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or 1.3GHz (Dual Core) Minimum: 512 MB RAM Minimum: 32 GB or greater The first step is to assign a ip to the server that you going to deploy the AD. Its nessary to…

Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 (sometimes abbreviated as “Win2K8“ “WinServer2K8” “Windows 2008” or “W2K8“) is one of Microsoft Windows‘ server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially released on February 27, 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2,…

DHCP Client Reservation

If a client requires the same IP address at all times, a client reservation can be configured to ensure that it always leases the same IP address. This is done by mapping an IP address from a scope to the MAC address of the client’s NIC. With a client reservation, the workstation can still be…

How to configure DHCP Client

In our previous article we discuss about various aspect of DCHP clients. Now we would configure DCHP client. Before we start make sure you have configured DCHP server and its up in network. See our previous articles for how to configure DHCP server. Go on client system and open properties of My network places Select…