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Musings of a Systems Admin: 6/7/09 - 6/14/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Converting Disks in Hyper-V. For starters, open up the Hyper-V Manager. If you have been working with Hyper-V for any amount of time, you should know where this is. If you're totally new to this, Hyper-V Manager should be located in Administrative Tools. If you can't find it there, open a run window (Windows Key R) and type mmc. From the window that comes up, Click File - Add/Remove Snap-in. And double click Hyper-V Manager. From there, click settings.
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Musings of a Systems Admin: 5/31/09 - 6/7/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Thursday, June 4, 2009. SQL Server 2008 Memory Management. Once again, hello all:. As it turns out, one can put a maximun and a minimum limit on SQL. Here's how. NOTE* This is done in SQL Server 2008 so the specified actions may not be available if you are using an older version such as 2003. Open up SQL Server Management Studio 2008. Type in the information to connect to the server that has SQL server running on it and click connect. Right click the server name. And that's it...
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Musings of a Systems Admin: 5/24/09 - 5/31/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Saturday, May 30, 2009. SQL 2008 Re-install Errors. Hello again all,. I configured the SQL install and ran into an ambiguous error (how typical). This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified. How quaint. Thankfully, after searching for a few minutes with our friend Google, I stumbled upon a Microsoft feedback article that seemed to contain my answer. Here's what needs to be done. Navigate in an explorer window to. 2009-05-30 18:02:40 Slp: ...
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Musings of a Systems Admin: 11/8/09 - 11/15/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Thursday, November 12, 2009. That has changed now. The company I now work for didn't have much of a server infrastructure (a non-server edition mac that stored files), so they asked me to design and build a new one. Some of the technologies I will be using in the upcoming posts will be. Windows Small Business Server 2008 (x64). Ubuntu Server 9.10. On one final note, I would like to put out a shameless plug for my other blog, Musings of a Web Developer. Posted by Aaron Ball.
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Musings of a Systems Admin: Blog Move
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Thursday, May 27, 2010. I recently purchased a domain for the purposes including combining all of my blogs into one website with single styling and more control over how everything works (wordpress plugins here we come! The website is still being worked on, so the styles might change a bit between now and whenever I decide to stop writing css. Please leave your comments and suggestions. Thanks for reading everyone! Posted by Aaron Ball. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Musings of a Systems Admin: Blog Resurrection
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Thursday, November 12, 2009. That has changed now. The company I now work for didn't have much of a server infrastructure (a non-server edition mac that stored files), so they asked me to design and build a new one. Some of the technologies I will be using in the upcoming posts will be. Windows Small Business Server 2008 (x64). Ubuntu Server 9.10. On one final note, I would like to put out a shameless plug for my other blog, Musings of a Web Developer. Posted by Aaron Ball.
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Musings of a Systems Admin: Ubuntu Bridging Network Interfaces
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Monday, May 3, 2010. Ubuntu Bridging Network Interfaces. Hello fellow sys admins,. All that being said,. Here's what exactly I needed to do. Let's see how poor my spelling of 1nt3rw3bz can get by the end of this. Here are the assumptions for the following example. You have at least two network adapters. In this case I have four Ethernet adapters. This post will be working with those four. Here's how I did it. After that, run. Sudo apt-get install bridge-utils. After that, type.
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Musings of a Systems Admin: Windows Vista/7 445 Port Auto-bind
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Windows Vista/7 445 Port Auto-bind. Hello again all,. If you all haven't noticed, I retitled the blog to be Musings of a Systems Admin. I figure I have enough to write about systems administration (rather than just server related admin) that I needed a place to write without starting a new blog. That being said, welcome to Musings of a Systems Admin! Here's the exact problem. Talking about my exact issue. The cause of the problem is that. In Windows ...
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Musings of a Systems Admin: 7/12/09 - 7/19/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Installing Team Foundation Server 2008. The installation of TFS 2008 can be a daunting task if the right documentation is not used. This post will cover the installation of Team Foundation Server 2008 and all of its prerequisites. To preface, this post will document a. Installation of Team Foundation Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 server using SQL 2008 on the backend. Here’s the quick rundown of what will be done. 1) Install IIS 7.0. Click throu...
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Musings of a Systems Admin: 6/21/09 - 6/28/09
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Musings of a Systems Admin. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Here's a few facts about this before getting started. First, shrinking a hard drive only applies to Dynamically sizing disks. Since these do no shrink on their own (there's a lot of reasons why) but only grow, they might need to be compacted later to free up host space. It only reduces the .vhd file size by shrinking the 'shell' (if you will) to take up the drive space that is not being used by the guest OS. Posted by Aaron Ball. I'm a Server Administr...
