Category: Servers
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Process Monitor from Microsoft Sysinternals Suite
As referenced in When Vendors Refuse to Yield, here are the dirty details of how I got a poorly written Clarion application to work correctly with non-administrative accounts on a terminal server. To start off, it is possible that you might encounter an application that relies on elevated permissions of privileged user accounts in order…
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When Vendors Refuse to Yield
Recently, I worked closely with a specific vendor of client and server side software for multi-location point of sale systems. As the project went on, I became annoyed with the nature of the software because it was not packaged in an installation file or anything of that nature. To “install” it, the vendor copied the…
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How to Virtualize a Physical Server Using Disk2vhd
A simple solution to converting an existing physical server into a vhd file is to use the free utility from Microsoft called Disk2vhd. This is useful for creating backups of a whole machine or only certain volumes. The resulting vhd file can be imported into a Hyper-V instance. One vhd file will be created for…
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Extend Volume – Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008 introduced some great tools to help us with extending volumes and other tricky things that were not offered in Windows Server 2003. So what if you still use Server 2003? I ran into a situation recently where I had virtualized a server that had two physical hard disks of 80 GB each…
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VMware Infrastructure Client White Console Screen
After installing VMware ESXi 3.5 Hypervisor on one my Dell PowerEdge 2650s, I ran into some trouble while launching my virtual machines. I attempted various configurations but I could not get around the white console screen displayed on every virtual machine I powered on. I researched this off and on for a few weeks while…
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With Liberty and Servers for All
As a college student, I gained knowledge through books and lecture in most of my classes. My favorite classes were those that had me learn by doing. I thought to myself, “Why not continue learning by doing at home?” I created several virtual machines on my two laptops using Sun’s (now Oracle’s) Virtual Box as…