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home lab
10 Docker Projects You Can Build in a Weekend and Actually Use!
Do yourself a favor and get accustomed to project-based learning. This is my philosophy to the most effective learning you can do. A home lab is a great way to do this. AND, getting into…
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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…
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Windows
How to fix BGINFO black background issue
BGINFO is a very useful utility in any server environment where you have many server desktops you may remote into…
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Virtualization
Create isolated test environment same ips and subnet with VMware
Recently, I had the need to setup a test/development environment that met the requirements of being able to keep the…
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Virtualization
AppAssure export to free ESXi version error
For those of you out there using AppAssure as your backup and restore mechanism in your server environment, you may…