Category: Servers
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Making bootable USB Drives from ISO Images in Minutes with Rufus (Video)
Rufus – Create bootable USB drives the easy way Ever been stuck in a situation where you didn’t have a CD-ROM available and needed to install an OS? Rufus is a free tool that makes creating bootable USB drives from images incredibly fast and more importantly easy. In just a few minutes you can be…
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IIS 7 Web Farm Basics with ARR, NLB and MySQL (Video)
Web Farming with IIS IIS 7 has proven to be a solid web server that can be easy to manage yet powerful at the same time. In this post I wanted to show how easy it can be to set up a redundant load balanced scalable server farm using IIS 7 using Application Request Routing.…
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Umbraco 6 – Stuck at “Connecting to Database…” 5% Complete when using IIS 7.5 & MySQL (5.5)
My first entry into ASP.NET Recently I built myself a nice IIS farm using a Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII server along with VMWare ESXi. Once I got the farm all configured properly and working well, I figured I would take some time to play around with ASP.NET as I have never touched it even after…
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Quick and Easy backup for VMWare ESXi 5.1 using Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5
Veeam Backup and Replication The guys over at Veeam have been hard at work turning out some of the best software out there software for supporting your virtual machine infrastructure. They have received countless awards in the VMWare and Hyper-V realms. Today I will be using Veeam Backup Free Edition, this is also the replacement…
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VMWare ESXi 5.1 Install and Basic Configuration, Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII (Video)
VMWare ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor VMWare ESXi 5.1 is a fantastic hyper-visor it’s lightweight, reliable, efficient, Linux based and on top of all of that free. Not only that but ESXi is also capable of running a myriad of different operating systems from Windows to Linux to BSD/Unix and so on, making it perfect for a…
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DRAC 5 Install on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII with Basic Configuration and Demo
What is a DRAC Card? A DRAC (Dell Remote Access Control), similar to HPs iLO, is a remote access card that provides out-of-band management capabilities. The card itself has its own processor, memory, network and access to the system bus. It also runs a easy to use HTTP web management interface. What this means is…
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Dell PowerConnect 5324 – cable tips, basic setup and configuration via Putty
Dell PowerConnect 5324 After realizing that I had out grown most common 4 or 8 port switches, and wanting more control over the switch itself, I decided that a 24 port-gigabit switch was what I wanted. Any higher end networking devices can easily add up VERY quickly, but that wasn’t in my budget for this…
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Veeam Backup & Recovery V6 Free install – Unable to install new SQL instance Error
Veeam B&R V6 SQL Issue I was trying to install Veeam B&R V6 on a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate x64 install and could not get it to go past the SQL install. I was using all of the default settings, to be honest I really just wanted FastSCP, none of the SQL Reporting crap that…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 IIS 7 and SMTP explained, with basic setup How-To
Intro: When first getting into IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2, one thing that seems get a little bit confusing is SMTP. Simple Mail Transfer protocol (SMTP) is an absolute must for your server if your applications are going to send mail. As most things in Server 2008 it is not enabled by default,…
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IIS 7 404 file not found, when the file really does exist
What the heck? I recently ran into an issue on an IIS 7.5 Server where I had uploaded a file to the server for a site, but when I went to view the file I received a 404 File not found error. Now I knew that the file did indeed exist, I even double checked…
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