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Our previous articles covered basic concepts of Virtualization along with the installation and monitoring of Windows 2012 Hyper-V. This article takes…
Windows Servers
The Domain Name System (DNS) is perhaps one of the most important services for Active Directory. DNS provides name resolution services for Active Dir…
Windows Servers
DNS is used for translating host names to IP addresses and the reverse, for both private and public networks (i.e.: the Internet). DNS does this by u…
Windows Servers
The Show Desktop feature, included with almost all versions of Windows up to Windows 7, allows a user to minimize or restore all open programs and e…

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Linux - Unix
When you are running your own web hosting, it is important to monitor how much space is being used by each user. This is not a simple task to be done manu…
Linux - Unix
File & folder security is a big part of any operating system and Linux is no exception! These permissions allow you to choose exactly who can access…
Linux - Unix
Vsftpd is a popular FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. For thoes unaware of the vsftpd ftp server, note that this is not just another ftp server, but a ma…
Linux - Unix
Installing software in Linux is very different from Windows for one very simple reason: most Linux programs come in 'source code' form. This allows you to…

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Cisco Switches
This article explains the procedure that should be followed to correctly shutdown/powerdown a Cisco Nexus 7000 series module and remove it from the chassi…
Cisco Data Center (Nexus/UCS)
The Cisco NX-OS checkpoint feature provides the capability to capture at any time a snapshot (backup) of the Cisco Nexus configuration befo…
Network Protocol Analyzers
Troubleshooting network problems can be a very difficult and challenging task. While most IT engineers use a network analyzer to help solve network proble…
Cisco Routers
NAT (Network Address Translation) is a method that allows the translation (modification) of IP addresses while packets/datagrams are traversing the networ…