hMailServer is a free open-source email server for Windows environments. hMailServer – can be installed on any edition of Windows (on desktop versions from Windows XP to Windows 11 or on Windows Server 2003-2022). hMailServer is a compact and powerful server, the distribution of hMailServer is only about 5 MB (!!!). E-mail messages are stored on the local hard drive in the MIME file format.
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By default, the command line console is used to configure and manage the OpenVPN server. For OpenVPN, there are several web interface administration panels (frontends) that allow you to perform routine operations (create users, create/revoke certificates, manage configuration files, etc.).
IPv6 protocol is enabled by default in all modern Linux distros. You can disable IPv6 on Linux if you only use IPv4 addressing on your network. This article shows how to disable IPv6 in Ubuntu and Debian Linux.
In this article, we’re going to show you how to find out how much time your computer has been up since the last time Windows was started (uptime).
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In this article, we will look at how to pass through a physical hard disk (HDD/SSD) or USB storage to a virtual machine running on Proxmox VE. Continue reading “Passthrough Physical Disk or USB to VM on Proxmox VE”
The make tool in Linux is used to build and compile programs from source files. The utility takes instructions for compilation from the makefile. In some Linux distributions, the make command is not installed by default (for example, in Linux CentOS 8), so when you run the build command, you will see an error:
The Network File System (NFS) client is not installed by default on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2 and Windows 11/10 desktop versions. To install it, open the Server Manager and select Add Roles and Features -> Client for NFS.
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You can change the owner of an MS SQL Server database using SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to your MS SQL instance, create a new query, and run the following Transact-SQL query:
The inability to pass through a connected USB device from a Hyper-V host to a virtual machine is one of the major shortcomings of the Microsoft hypervisor. You can use the open-source project usbipd-win to solve this problem (https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win). The usbipd-win utility allows you to pass through (redirect USB device or key including HASP) over the network from a Windows host to any Hyper-V virtual machine, remote computer running Linux, Windows, or WSL2.
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If you try to rename an Active Directory domain controller the way you rename domain member computers/servers (by using the sysdm.cpl console or the Rename-Computer PowerShell cmdlet)), a warning will appear:
Domain controllers cannot be moved from one domain to another, they must first be demoted. Renaming this domain controller may cause it to become temporarily unavailable to users and computers. For information on renaming domain controllers, including alternate renaming methods, see Renaming a Domain Controller (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=177447). To continue renaming this domain controller, click OK.
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