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Benefits of Cloud Computing There are several benefits to using cloud computing, including: Cost savings: Using cloud services can be more cost-effective than maintaining your own hardware and infrastructure. You only pay for the resources you use, and there are no upfront costs for expensive hardware. Scalability: Cloud services are highly scalable, so you can easily increase or decrease your resources as needed. This allows you to adjust to changes in demand quickly and easily. Flexibility: With cloud computing, you can access your data and applications from anywhere with an internet connection. This makes it easy to work remotely or to collaborate with people in different locations. Automatic updates: Many cloud services automatically perform updates, meaning you don't have to worry about maintaining or updating your own hardware and software. Disaster recovery: Cloud providers often offer built-in disaster recovery options, which can help ensure that your data ...

Cloud computing is a model for delivering IT services and resources over the internet. Instead of having to manage and maintain your own servers, storage, and software, you can use resources provided by a cloud provider, such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. There are three main types of cloud computing services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): This type of service provides virtualized computing resources, such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, over the internet. With IaaS, you can quickly and easily spin up new servers and storage as needed, without having to purchase and maintain the underlying hardware. Platform as a Service (PaaS): This type of service provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing applications, without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. With PaaS, you can focus on developing your application, and the cloud provider takes care of the infrastructure and platform-level services. Software as a Service (SaaS): This type of ser...

Azure Active Directory (AAD) is a cloud-based identity and access management solution from Microsoft that helps organizations securely manage access to resources and applications. In this blog post, we will discuss the key features and benefits of using AAD, as well as how it can be used to improve security and productivity in your organization. Features: One of the main features of AAD is its ability to provide single sign-on (SSO) access to cloud-based and on-premises applications. This means that users only need to sign in once to access all of the applications they are authorized to use, rather than having to sign in to each application individually. This improves productivity by eliminating the need for users to remember multiple sets of login credentials and reduces the risk of password-related security breaches. Another key feature of AAD is its role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities. RBAC allows administrators to assign different levels of access to resources based...

1.       Login to Azure Portal . 2.       Type Domain Services in the search bar on the portal’s home page and click Azure AD Domain Services . 3.    

What is Azure Active Directory Domain Services? Azure Active Directory Domain Services enables organizations to use domains services such as domain joining, Group Policies, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication same as the on-premises windows based active directory. Azure active directory domain services extend Azure AD to support DNS name resolution, Custom Organizational Units, Kerberos, NTLM, Group Policy, domain joining, LDAP bind or read and Secure LDAP. With managed domain as the name suggests we can use domain services without the need of deploying, managing or patching domain controllers.   What are the prerequisites? To deploy azure ADDS following resources and privileges are required: ·          An Azure Subscription, ·          Azure AD tenant associated to the subscription, the tenant either be synchronized with an on-premises directory or cloud-only directory. For our demo purpose, I will use ...

For an IT Professional it is quite common to have a virtual LAB environment and it is also common to face issue related to similar SID (Security Identifier) on multiple VMs on the network. Earlier there was a tool “ NewSID ” was being used to overcome from this problem but that’s been retired and not being supported by Microsoft anymore. The recommended way is to use “SysPrep” to change SID of any windows operating system. Before proceeding with “SysPrep”, it’s better to understand how to check SID!! There is a free tool can be downloaded from sysinternal called “ PsGetSID ” , I’ll show how easily one can check machine’s SID.

Hardware Configuration: I built a powefull desktop PC to install vSphere on it and prepare a virtual lab environment. Underneath is the configuration: Processor: Intel Corei7 4770 (4 th Gen) Board: Intel® DH87MC Memory: 32gigs Storage: 1TB Sata 6 Issue Description:   ESXi 5.1 stuck with an error massage pasted underneath: