To lower my memory footprint in my home lab I decided to move from into Windows Server 2016 Core. That said running Active Directory Domain Service seems to be the perfect candidate to start with my new architectured lab environment. There are several prerequisites required for enabling ADDS, but I am not going to get into […]
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For a few months now I have used the software package named Pi-Hole as an internal network DNS server to prevent ad sites in addition to malicious websites from being accessible form compute resources on my home network. Pi-Hole is a small install that can be installed on any Linux system and it works like […]
There may come a time that you may need to install Windows Server 2016. Here I will provide a high-level step by step on this installation process. Requirements: Windows Server 2016 Installation media (DVD, USB flash, WDS, etc.) Installation Target (Computer, Server, Virtual Machine) Keyboard (Mouse is optional) Video Example of Installation: [youtube id=”r71sJcLqCEQ” width=”600″ […]
Here are some quick steps to installing PowerCLI onto your computer to get you started. I performed the steps listed below on a Windows 10 Computer. Overview VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 600 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere, vCloud, vRealize Operations Manager, […]
Tonight’s “home work” Assignment: Update Companies Exchange 2013 to Cumulative Update 3 Purpose Address many of the issues that existed in Cumulative Update 2. Bring additional value to the company Oh and some of the newly introduced features / enhancements should help also: Usability improvements when adding members to distribution groups in the Exchange Administration […]
I wanted to update CrashPlan to the latest version. So I download the latest Linux install and what I found after attempting to install was that I needed to uninstall the existing version before installing the new one. The following steps Stop the CrashPlan process from running /etc/init.d/crashplan stop Manually delete the following directories /usr/local/crashplan […]