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home lab
5 Must-Have Coding Tools to Supercharge Your Home Lab Workflow
Wow, I feel like I can’t keep up with all the awesome tools that are out there. With the explosion of AI and AI-driven workflows, there has been a flurry of activity on this front…
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SQL
OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction
Today in working with a new virtual machine that was spun up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server…
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Networking
Good VMware Home Lab Switch
Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage…
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SQL
Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration
A project recently had me working on Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration for an international company who…
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Computers
Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware
Last week in working with a “whitebox” ESXi server running a VMware lab that was running on an LSI 9280-16i4E…
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Disaster Recovery
Tape vs Disk vs Cloud backup what solutions are you using?
I wanted to shoot a post out there to you guys visiting the site to see which solutions for backup…
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Security
Receive alerts when user connects or disconnects from RDP
If you administer a forward facing terminal server or even if you have an RDP connection setup on your home…
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VMware
Installing ESXi 6.0 in VMware workstation 11
So with eager excitement all VMware admins out there have been looking to get their hands on ESXi 6.0. I…
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Windows
Blast from Past – Upgrade NT4 domain to Windows 2003
Believe it or not, there ARE still some environments out there running Windows NT domain controllers – Yes the end…
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SQL
SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally
Guys, so I have run into a really weird situation with a development SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged…
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Windows
Add GUI file explorer to Windows PE environment
Recently, in working with a client who was using the Windows PE environment created with Windows 8.1 ADK, we had…
