Month: May 2012

Self Management

US Visa Consulate process at Hyderabad

  You need NOT carry the DS-160 complete form, just hold the confirmation page. Consulate is located at exactly in the lane beside Pedestrian sky walker after NTR statue at Begumpet Police Lines bus stop. There is no vehicle parking around the US Consulate office. You’ll be allowed to get into the office premises only 15 mins before of your interview schedule. Only Cell phones can be deposited at the VFS office located in the opposite building where ICICI bank is located You’ll be asked to be in the queue in front at the consulate office building Outside gate You […]

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Repackaging

Deploying a MSI through GPO

This tutorial will describe how to deploy a MSI on multiple machines by using Group Policy. 1. Methods of deployment 2. Create a distribution point 3. Create a Group Policy Object 4. Assign a MSI package 5. Publish a MSI package 6. Redeploy a MSI package 7. Remove a MSI package 8. Troubleshooting Active Directory/GPO deployments 1. Methods of deployment Group Policy supports two methods of deploying a MSI package: Assign software – A program can be assigned per-user or per-machine. If its assigned per-user, it will be installed when the user logs on. However, if its assigned per-machine then […]

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Server

Managed Service Accounts Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The following questions and answers provide important information about using managed service accounts (MSA) with Microsoft server applications. Two new types of service accounts are available in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows® 7—the managed service account and the virtual account. The managed service account is designed to provide crucial applications such as IIS with the isolation of their own domain accounts, while eliminating the need for an administrator to manually administer the service principal name (SPN) and credentials for these accounts. It is a managed domain accounts that provides automatic password management and simplified SPN management. Virtual accounts are […]

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