Downgrade Forest Functional level or Domain Functional Level in Server 2012

Today i will share that How we can downgrade the Forest Functional level or Domain Functional level for server 2008 or 2012 .It is there that revert to the lower FFL or DFL is not possible but in server 2008 and 2012 it is possible.(FFL- forest functional level) (DFL- domain functional level)Here in my scenario i have server 2012 with forest functional level and domain functional level "windows server 2012", as you can see below the FF.ddAs you...

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How to Analyze Windows Memory Dump

Welcome back guys :) Today here I am going to explain about how to analyze the memory dump. As in my previous post I have describe to you: How to create memory dump and where you can find that dump file. Let’s say you have configured a memory dump on a server and server got unexpected down with BSOD. Now you need to go to the default location i.e. %SystemRoot%\Memory.dmp for the memory dump file. You can find the memory.dmp as below.This memory.dmp...

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How to enable memory dump on a windows server

It is very often we see the blue screen on the Microsoft based OS.Basically we called this blue screen as  Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD).I have asked the question "what is BSOD" from many guys during the interviews but usually they repliedthat it happened due to RAM or HDD failure, they simply reply that in this case they will replace either RAM or HDD to fix this issue on the server.  So today i will give a idea about this BSOD and how...

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Set Up Windows 2003 R2 NFS Server for VMware ESXi Backups

Generally my preference is to use Linux as an NFS server.  On the internet you will see frequent reference to the belief that NFS works better on Linux/UNIX.  Recently I decided to try and set up NFS services on Windows to see how well it would perform.  In this tutorial I will set up Services for UNIX 3.5 on a Windows 2003 R2 server and configure it using the User Name Mapping service to allow a VMware ESXi to use it as a datastore...

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