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PostgreSQL is a powerful and open source relational database platform. It’s scalable across multiple platforms and is a widely used and well-loved tool. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install PostgreSQL on CentOS 7! How Does PostgreSQL work? PostgreSQL uses SQL for relational queries and JSON for non-relational queries. One advantage of using PostgreSQL is its immense community […]
Read moreWhat XRDP is and How to Install XRDP on CentOS 7 For the uninitiated, RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol. And just like the expanded form suggests, it’s a protocol for a machine to accept remote desktop connections from other machines. XRDP is a server for CentOS 7 that implements this protocol and allows you to use different types of […]
Read moreWhy would one want to change the default SSH port? Does it make your server more secure? In a sense, it does. Changing the default port means that attackers get nothing by attacking the default port 22. While that’s not to say that the new port can never be hacked now, it does provide a fair amount of deterrence to […]
Read moreIntroduction to Installing htop on CentOS 7 Many sysadmins know about top, the standard process management and activity monitor that comes on most Linux systems. But there are times when top does not provide the information you’re really looking for, or you want something that updates more frequently as the state of your system changes. Look no further than htop. It’s […]
Read moreThis year 2019 has been very good to me 🙂 I accomplished some some of the things I wanted to do such as obtaining some IT Certification such as Azure. One event that stands out is the interview I had with Dr. Wulf at the Minnesota STEM Partnership studios. This was an interview geared towards students who are interested in […]
Read moreWhat is CentOS CentOS is an open-source Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS 7 is viewed as the preferred option for web hosting due to its stability and active developer community. In this tutorial, learn how to install CentOS 7 in a few simple steps. Prerequisites Recommended minimum of 10GB of free disk space CentOS 7 […]
Read moreHave you ever ran into a situation where your disk space on your Windows Server were running low and you had to constantly remote into the server to check the disk space? Now, imagine if you had to do this for 10-100 servers! holy crap. With this PowerShell script you can get an email notification when your disk space is […]
Read moreYou may find yourself in a situation where you have Exchange in a multi-domain environment, that when your running commands like get-mailbox it’s not displaying mailboxes across all the domains. You can sort that out by simply expanding your recipient scope, you can do that by running the below Open Exchange Management Console with Admin rights Run the command below […]
Read moreCreate New Virtual Machine Let’s go to create the new virtual machine. Type new-vm -vmname test -memorystartupbytes 1GB Create Virtual Hard Drive new-vhd -path “C:\users\Public\Documents\Hyper-v\Virtual Hard Disks\test.vhdx” -sizebytes 20GB -fixed Use the -fixed to determine that your Virtual Hard Drive will be fixed. Because by default use Dynamic Virtual Hard Disk Type. After create the Virtual Hard Disk you will see […]
Read moreI found the free Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD) tool which you can download it here. As stated in Microsoft’s description on the tool download page, ADTD connects to the Active Directory through LDAP and then creates the topology of the Active Directory and/or Exchange Server infrastructure. Charts include domains, sites, OUs, DFS-R, etc., and can be modified through Microsoft Visio. […]
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