Configure IP Address and DNS from Command Line

The IP address of your computer can be set from the command prompt by running the following commands at an administrative level prompt:

netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 123.123.123.123 255.255.255.0 123.123.123.1 1

Local Area Connection is the name of the adapter you want to modify. In single NIC systems it is normally called Local Area Connection.

123.123.123.123 is the IP address you want to set. 

255.255.255.0 is the subnet mask. 

123.123.123.1 is the gateway.

1 is the gateway metric. You can leave this as 1 for almost all cases.  

If you want to enable DHCP you can run:

netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" dhcp

There are two commands for DNS since administrators typically configure a primary and secondary DNS server. 

For the primary DNS run:

netsh interface ip set dns name="Local Area Connection" static 208.67.222.222

For the secondary run:

netsh interface ip add dns name="Local Area Connection" 208.67.220.220 index=2

If you want to configure the computer to use DNS from DHCP run:

netsh interface ip set dnsservers name="Local Area Connection" source=dhcp

When you are finished with all of your IP and DNS changes run ipconfig -all to review the new settings.

Active Directory Backup in Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 doest not support System State or Active Directory backup through GUI. In windows Server 2008 we need to take backup of Active Directory through Command line WBadmin.

Yes but if you have Windows Server 2008 R2 you can take Active Directory backup through GUI Mode.

How to take Backup of Active Directory through Command.

First of all we need to install Backup features through Server Manager to backup of Active Directory.

Enabling Windows Server Backup features through Server Manager: 

1. Open Server Manager from Run through servermanager.msc command.

2. Expand Server name and Click Features.

3. Click Add features. Scroll down and select Windows Server Backup and Command line tools in Windows Server Backup Features.



   


4. Click Next and Install.


After Successful installation of Windows Backup Features, We can take backup of Active Directory

5. Open Command Prompt by typing CMD in Run.

6. Type "Wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:E:\BackupAD".
     Where E:\BackupAD is ur backup destination folder.

 

7. Now Press Y for starting System State Backup.

8. When Backup will finish you will able to see summary of backup and Log path.