I needed something simple to backup some files at work to an external drive. At first, I thought about writing a simple script to do it. Then I saw a short article about SyncToy from an old issue of Windows IT Pro magazine so I decided to give it a try and I’m glad I [...]
Here’s a pretty cool open source software that you can install on an old machine to use as a network-attached storage (NAS). It runs on FreeBSD and you can even install it on flash drives (installation including the FreeBSD OS is less than 64MB).
It supports popular services such as CIFS/SMB, FTP, SSH, NFS, iTunes/DAAP, and [...]
I got my Dell PowerEdge SC440 on Tuesday and I’ve been busy all week installing software on it and redoing my entire home network.
The hardware itself looks very well built, it weighs about 40 lbs. The inside looks very neat. There are 4 SATA ports but there are only 2 hard drive trays so if [...]
Error Message: “\\x.x.x.x is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to [...]
If you get this error when installing Windows XP in VMware ESXi, simply do the following:
Download this floppy image which contains the VMware SCSI drivers: vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp.
Upload the floppy image to the datastore using the VI Client.
Edit the virtual machine settings and select Floppy Drive 1, then choose the option on the right to “Use existing [...]
I’m doing some research on Citrix XenDesktop and I just saw this demo. I know this is kind of old but I just find it really cool!
Check it out here.
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I was updating our web application last Friday and I needed it to connect to an SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database to query some tables but my application couldn’t connect to the MSSQL server.
After a few hours of searching the internet and trying different things I finally got it to work by downloading a [...]
Warning Message: “The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?”
I got this warning message last week while testing a group policy object to run a small program from a network drive when users log in to the domain.
After some googling, it turned out that this feature was added [...]
Just saw this on Microsoft’s website, you can register here: http://www.getvirtualnow.com/usevents/cityselect.aspx
Here are the sessions:
Session I: Server Virtualization and Management
An inside look at Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager from an architectural and a real world point of view. Complete with live demo’s of real life scenarios, and even a look at SCVMM managing VMWare [...]
I just ordered one of these last night, looks like a pretty good server for a very good price.
I’m planning on installing VMware ESXi on here and this will pretty much replace my current server at home (which is over 4 years old so this will be a pretty big upgrade for me) which I’m [...]
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