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  1. zep_uk

    zep_uk New Member

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    Hi Guys

    Im new to the forum and thought I would say hi and give you a brief detail in my background

    Im currently working on helpdesk resolving 1st line support stuff at the moment which ive been in for 1 half years, Im looking to take the MCSE path and start off with the 70-290 exam.

    The only problem im having is that fact that we are so locked down at my work that they will not allow us to go on any of the servers which run windows 2003 but I can play around with active directoy which is a short cut to our desktops :(

    So im curretnly in the process of building a lab in my spare room at home.

    Look forward to your comments or questions

    thank you
     
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  2. greenbrucelee
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    greenbrucelee Zettabyte Poster

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    Hi Welcome :)
     
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  3. BosonJosh

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    Welcome!
     
  4. hbroomhall

    hbroomhall Petabyte Poster Gold Member

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    Hi and welcome to CF!

    Harry.
     
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  5. Notes_Bloke

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    Hi and welcome to CF!:D

    Are you using physical machines or virtual machines in your lab setup?

    NB
     
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  6. zep_uk

    zep_uk New Member

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    Hey Notes_Bloke

    I shall be using two physical machines in which i both got from family as they were going to throw in the skip and one of them has a 320 GB hard drive LOL ram isnt all that good in them but im hunting some on ebay as we speak :twisted:
     
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    Welcome!
     
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  8. sunn

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    Welcome to the forum... :shades
     
  9. nXPLOSi

    nXPLOSi Terabyte Poster

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    Welcome to CF :)
     
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    Hi and welcome to the forum. :D
     
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  11. GiddyG

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    Welcome to CF! 8)
     
  12. UCHEEKYMONKEY
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    UCHEEKYMONKEY R.I.P - gone but never forgotten. Gold Member

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    hello and Welcome to CF:biggrin

    That's probably a good thing they don't allow you to play around with AD. Nothing against you mate. But AD directory is a live state, if you start taking playing around with domain policies it really screws up the network not to mention the users.:(

    Believe me if you think you have a lot of calls on help desk it will be nothing compared to the hell you would get if the AD Domain server went down.:dry

    Your better off setting up a lab or VLAN yourself.8)
     
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  13. Kitkatninja
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    Hi & welcome to CF :)

    -Ken
     
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  14. Alex Wright

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    Agreed!

    Welcome to the forums.
     
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    Sparky Zettabyte Poster Moderator

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    Yup as already said you don’t want to mess around with the live AD. Reminds me of a time when one of the guys on the helpdesk decided to update the AD by deleting a stack of old distribution lists which was a request by the customer.

    The problem was that he deleted all the security groups! One by one calls came into the help desk from users complaining that they couldn’t access anything. Ended up having to do a system state restore on the DC. Not a good day that one! :biggrin
     
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