
Kelvin Johnson introduces Windows Server administration and practical IT system knowledge, drawing on his experience as a service desk engineer, system administrator, and consultant.
Learn to manage Active Directory and Group Policy by creating security groups, provisioning users with scripts, configuring account policies, and establishing forest trusts across domains.
Add a new hard disk to a Windows Server VM, bring it online, initialize it, and create an NTFS volume with a drive letter. Configure sharing for authenticated users.
Deploy Windows 8.1 professional in VMware Workstation Pro by creating a 64-bit VM, installing from ISO, then install VMware Tools and prepare for upgrades to Windows 10 or 11.
Upgrade a Windows 8.1 device to Windows 10 professional using a mounted ISO image in VMware Workstation Pro, including activation and keeping files and apps.
Schedule your device to restart or shut down at future times using the command prompt, with delays from 60 seconds to three days. Abort with A to cancel the shutdown.
Maintain two domain controllers with replication to ensure continuous availability for users even if one server goes down. Restart servers and review Azure logs to identify login issues.
Troubleshoot login failures by restoring deleted computer objects in Active Directory, enabling the account, and rejoining the workstation to the domain to fix trust relationships.
Learn to resolve common password and account issues by unlocking accounts, resetting expired passwords, enforcing password change at next logon, and using self password reset with identity verification.
Troubleshoot Outlook and Office not responding by verifying the user issue, ending Outlook in Task Manager, creating a new profile, and then repairing or reinstalling Office if needed.
Troubleshoot unresponsive Microsoft Edge by closing and reopening, restarting the device, updating Microsoft Edge, clearing browser data, disabling extensions, and if needed resetting, repairing, or reinstalling Microsoft Edge.
Learn to resolve blue screen of death on Windows 11 by restarting, checking updates (Intune), updating drivers, running system file checker and DISM, and reinstalling faulty drivers, reboot to verify.
Learn to reset Windows 11 when unstable using settings, system, and recovery, choosing to keep files or remove everything, with local vs internet reinstall options.
Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Computer Management and its essential functions.
Learn to diagnose and fix Windows update issues using the built-in troubleshooter, clear update cache, restart services, and run SFC and DISM to repair system files.
Enable remote desktop for all client devices by creating a group policy in the domain controller's organizational unit and force gpupdate /force to apply the policy.
Deleting the system32 folder on Windows 11 destroys the OS by removing core files, drivers, libraries, and essential services, rendering the device unbootable, as shown in the video.
Whether you’re an IT support technician, system administrator, helpdesk agent, or tech enthusiast, this video shows you how to turn ChatGPT into your personal troubleshooting assistant.
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Are you looking to advance your career in Information Technology and build a solid foundation for your IT journey? You're in the right place, and you might be wondering why. This video will serve as an excellent guide for you.
Becoming an IT specialist requires starting from the basics. You need to master computers and everything related to information technology, including how they function, the installation of operating systems like Windows on machines, their communication protocols, how to manage them, and how to troubleshoot hardware issues. Additionally, you should understand the importance of learning how users are managed through a network, including user account permissions, passwords, and access—all managed through Active Directory.
These topics are some of what we will cover in this course. We'll discuss Domain Controllers, network configuration, DNS records, Active Directory Users and Computers, Trust Relationships, Group Policy, Bitlocker configuration, and Disk Management.
This video tutorial will focus more on practical applications and less on theory.
The course is structured to provide you with the fundamental knowledge required for installing, configuring, and managing Windows Server and Client Operating Systems.
Given that over 90% of the course content is hands-on training, I strongly encourage you to have a test PC with virtualization software installed. This will enable you to apply and practice everything we cover in this video.
The training guidelines for this video will be the following:
1. Install and configure domain controllers for company 1 and company 2
2. Install and configure DNS servers
3. Create and configure DNS zones and records
4. Configure reverse lookup zone
5. Add Secondary Active Directory Domain controller
6. Configure Forward lookup zone
7. Create and manage Active Directory groups and organizational units (OUs)
8. Create and manage Active Directory users and computers
9. Configure two Trust relationship between the two companies
10. Configure service authentication and account policies
11. Create and manage Group Policy Objects
12. Configure BitLocker policy for all client devices
13. How to Configure Disks and Volumes in Windows Server