Sometimes I run into various problems when jpining VMware ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain. In this article, I have described typical steps to solve this problem.
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In this article, we will look at how to install and configure a Squid proxy server with HTTPS filtering support on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 in this example).
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When you mount network drives in Windows (manually, via net use, or GPO), File Explorer shows the full UNC path to the mapped network folder as the drive name. In this example, the network shared folder \\DESKTOP-1FOH5A8\Share\Docs\Reports\2022 is mapped as drive Z:\. Displaying the network drive name as a UNC path is inconvenient for many users. In Windows, you can change the name of the mapped network drive through the registry.
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Webmin is an open-source web interface service for managing Linux. You can use Webmin to perform typical Linux administration tasks from a graphical web interface instead of a command-line shell. In this article, we’ll look at how to install and configure Webmin in CentOS and Ubuntu.
Safe mode in Windows is used to troubleshoot and fix the operating system in case of various failures. When started in Safe Mode, Windows boots with a minimal set of system services and drivers.
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After installing Windows guest in a virtual machine on a KVM host, you must install the correct device drivers for virtual hardware (KVM VirtIO drivers). Without these drivers, guest Windows won’t be able to recognize virtual network adapters and a number of other virtual hardware.
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The automatic registry backup feature has been enabled in all Windows 10 builds up to 1803. Registry files were automatically backed up with a scheduled task to the %windir%\System32\config\RegBack folder.
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Before changing the HBA queue depth settings on a VMware ESXi host, check which HBA module is loaded. Connect to your ESXi server via SSH and run the command:
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Let’s look at how to send an email notification when logging into a Linux server remotely via SSH. We’ll use postfix to send email alerts and the Gmail SMTP server as a relay host.
In this article, we’ll show you how to clone (copy/migrate) an installed Linux operating system to another (new) drive. The article shows the process of cloning Debian or Ubuntu, but it also applies to Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora Linux distros.
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