Rufus Alternative for Linux and Windows installing ISOs – Ventoy
Most of you are familiar with the Rufus utility that is a great way to “burn” an ISO to a USB key for installing various OS’es. It works great, and…
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Troubleshooting Windows Access Denied Errors
Windows administrators can spend a massive amount of time poring over logs and investigating error messages. Trying to figure out why Windows is throwing certain errors can be frustrating and…
Opvizor Performance Analyzer VMware Performance Monitoring
Monitoring your vSphere environment at the cluster, host, or virtual machine level is key in understanding where performance bottlenecks may exist and why production workloads may not be performing adequately.…
Tools to Improve Virtual Machine Performance
One of the key areas that a VMware virtualization administrator must key in on with his or her vSphere environment is performance. After all if the production workloads running in…
GNS3 2.0 released new features
For those networking geeks out there like myself, no doubt you have used and continue to utilize GNS3 as a tool for mock ups, learning, and just about anything else…
Three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity
In troubleshooting a SQL connectivity issue recently, I tried multiple tests in connecting to SQL to help troubleshoot the issue. In this post, let’s take a look at three lesser…
Viewing and killing TCP IP connections Windows
Many time in troubleshooting or needing to view network traffic information or connection information, seeing your TCP/IP connections in Windows can provide valuable insight into problems or issues that may be…
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…
Using Resource Monitor to troubleshoot performance problems
We are all familiar with tools such as TaskManager to troubleshoot performance issues on our Windows PCs and workstations. However, there is an often underutilized built-in tool in Windows that…
Evernote – Great tool for IT Documentation
Have you ever been looking for documentation that you just know you wrote down, a license key or important URL that you saved into a notepad document somewhere, or a…