How to transition from using Windows to Ubuntu 13.04
I think it is safe to say that many of us have been disappointed with what we have seen and are seeing from Windows 8. It has left many questioning…
Category: OS’s
How to login locally if you don’t know computer name
You may have run into a situation where you need to login locally to a workstation that may be joined to a domain. The last person that logged into the…
Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation Screenshots Step by Step
Microsoft recently released the Preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 for download and install. We got our hands on the install ISO and decided to spin this up in…
Easy ways to get to Windows Task Manager
Let’s face it, from time to time, we just need to get to task manager and kill an application or get a quick look at system resources. There are many…
How to find your DNS settings on your computer
Basic Internet troubleshooting often requires troubleshooting DNS settings on a computer. DNS provides the means for all the user friendly URLS we use to surf the Internet are properly translated…
Configure additional bindings in IIS 7.5 so websites answer to different names
One of the main purposes of the “Bindings” setting for a website’s properties is so the webserver knows which website to serve out when a request comes across on port…
Windows ADK DISM commands to capture and apply images
With the introduction of the new Accessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8 which is the new iteration of what we have known as the WAIK for automating installs, Microsoft…
Mass Add a user to a local group with a batch file
If you need to add a user from the domain let’s say to the local administrators group on a Windows 7 workstation, you would simply launch “lusrmgr.msc” and add the…
How to backup and restore MySQL DB using MySQL Workbench
For those database administrators out there who mainly deal with Microsoft SQL Server environments, you may wonder what tool you use to interact with MySQL and perform the necessary functions…
How to map a network drive using the IPV6 address in Windows
So in case you were wondering why we haven’t rapidly adopted IP version 6, then you may not have tried to map a network drive to an IPV6 address as…