Friday, 2 September 2016

How to Join a Windows 10 PC to a Domain (Windows Server)


In our recent post we have described how to install windows 10, windows server, how to install Active directory and etc.
See below link to how to install and for remaining:

So today, we are writing about “How to Join a Windows 10 PC to a Domain” step by step with screen shots. As we know a domain based network provides us centralized administrator to control entire network from a single computer which we called Server.

To join a domain, we must first verify below requirement and information:
  1. Administrator privileged user account of domain server
  2. Name of Domain server
  3. Computer (Windows PC) should have assigned IP address manually or by DHCP server.
  4. We must verify firewall rule should enable or firewall should off.
  5. We must have administrator rights on the windows 10 computer

After all the above requirement or prerequisites, here we will go ahead to join windows 10 with domain.
In our case we are joining domain with windows server 2016 AD hosted server.

Below are the step by step solution to join domain:

  • Start windows 10 machine with administrator rights.
  • Verify firewall rules and current status, to check on windows search firewall and check the status.
  • We will verify IP address is assigned? And we will ping with server IP address if it’s pinging then we are set to for further step
  • Select start button and click on setting, it will go to setting wizard here click on system
  • Once we will click on system it will take us to another and here click on about then select Join a Domain on this page from right side

  • Once will click on JOIN A DOMAIN, It will ask to enter Domain name, so enter domain name and click next for user name and password of domain administrator and click ok.
  • It will ask to add an account, here we can assign user name and account type or we can skip as well, in our case we are skipping so we are clicking on skip, next will ask for restart.
  • So we have restarted our system successfully and we are on the login home page, here we can see the joined domain name appearing, now we are logging with test use to check the same.

  • Yes, we are able to login with domain user on this machine. And we have verified window 10 machine information is created on windows server.

Thanks ☺

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How to migrate SharePoint list items & documents whilst preserving metadata properties


Preserving Metadata properties is a major concern when migrating SharePoint items using native processes. To ensure that metadata remains consistent through the migration you will need to follow the steps laid out in this article:

  1. At the destination, create a blank list. You don’t have to recreate the custom files and list structure in the destination list.

  1. Now create a source custom list with a custom field “comments” as shown below:


  1. In the source custom list note the time in the modified field (Metadata properties).

  1. Go to Site Actions -> Site settings -> click on “Content and structure” under Site Administration.


  1. Then open the source custom list and select the items that you want to move.

  1. Then in the Move dialog box, select the Destination Custom list in which you want to move your list items and then click OK.



  1. Now in the destination list you will see that all items have been moved and custom fields have been created. In the below screenshot you can see that new custom fields are created and the Metadata properties of list items are preserved.

Conclusion


If you’re relying solely on native migration processes, ensuring that metadata properties are preserved during SharePoint migrations is time consuming and repetitive. Fortunately, there are better ways of going about it. Some automated, third-party migration solutions can perform a variety of migrations whilst preserving all metadata and hierarchies. LepideMigrator for Documents is one such solution. It provides a fully customizable mapping of attributes that allows you to automatically migrate the required metadata in a fraction of the time that native processes take.

Specialy thanks to: Peter Gregg (Author for this article)