utilities
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Tools and Utilities
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 it serves the purpose very well. However, I want to…
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Windows
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 time consuming. I was reminded of this frustration recently in…
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VMware
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. In addition, monitoring certain vSphere metrics can also help to…
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VMware
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 the virtualized environment are not running with adequate performance, problems…
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Networking
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 you can think of. GNS3 today has some major news…
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Computers
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 known ways to test SQL connectivity including ODBC, a UDL…
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Networking
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 going on in Windows with connectivity.  Also, viewing connection information…
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Linux
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 their loyalty to Microsoft and has many thinking about alternatives…
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Troubleshooting
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. Â However, there is an often underutilized built-in tool in Windows that provides valuable information that is very useful in troubleshooting performance…
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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 phone number you scribbled onto a sheet of paper and…