OS’s
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How to find your DNS settings on your computer
Basic Internet troubleshooting often requires troubleshooting DNS settings on a computer. DNS provides the means for all the user friendly URLS we use to surf the Internet are properly translated into the IP addresses the computers and servers understand in…
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Configure additional bindings in IIS 7.5 so websites answer to different names
One of the main purposes of the “Bindings” setting for a website’s properties is so the webserver knows which website to serve out when a request comes across on port 80. After all if a server is literally serving out…
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Windows ADK DISM commands to capture and apply images
With the introduction of the new Accessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8 which is the new iteration of what we have known as the WAIK for automating installs, Microsoft has deprecated the imagex command to manage, capture, and apply…
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Mass Add a user to a local group with a batch file
If you need to add a user from the domain let’s say to the local administrators group on a Windows 7 workstation, you would simply launch “lusrmgr.msc” and add the user to the group. However, if you have to mass…
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How to backup and restore MySQL DB using MySQL Workbench
For those database administrators out there who mainly deal with Microsoft SQL Server environments, you may wonder what tool you use to interact with MySQL and perform the necessary functions that most admins are used to performing with Microsoft SQL…
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How to map a network drive using the IPV6 address in Windows
So in case you were wondering why we haven’t rapidly adopted IP version 6, then you may not have tried to map a network drive to an IPV6 address as of yet. All jokes aside, there are many complexities of…
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How to add an ODBC entry Windows 7
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is the mediator between a workstation and server that allows the establishing and “talking” to a database. ODBC configuration utility in Windows 7 allows one to easily create a connection with a database server, test the…
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Quick Steps to install SQL 2008 R2 Client Tools in Windows 7
Most SQL admins or users who need to be able to see DBs on a SQL box or need to run SQL queries from their desktop, will most likely want to have the SQL management tools installed on their workstations.…
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How to configure and setup Windows 2012 VPN
Windows 2012 continues the iteration of Windows VPN that continues to provided remote access capabilities for network connectivity from the outside. There have definitely been improvements with Windows 2012 VPN especially in the Direct Access functionality. We want to show…
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Windows Server 2012 still missing the shared folder icon
One of the misnomers of Windows Server 2008 R2 that gave admins fits is the lack of any type of shared folder designation. If you have a folder with several hundred subfolders in which some are shared and others are not,…
