Enable Shadow Copies (Enable Previous Versions) Click Start , point to Administrative Tools , and then click Computer Management . In the console tree, right-click Shared Folders , click All Tasks , and then click Configure Shadow Copies . The window that opens will look something like this, displaying all of your local disks: In Select a volume , click the volume Read more…
This is the easiest (most hands-off, unattended) way to upgrade your server’s firmware/drivers, especially when you don’t run Windows but instead a hypervisor such as VMWare ESXi. Here’s how you can do it. Download the ISO See the chart below for finding a repository to download your bootable Read more…
On the topic of NGINX Reverse Proxy, it just so happens that the process for installing an SSL certificate onto your ScreenConnect server can be rather difficult, and a much more flexible approach is by using NGINX over SSL to reverse-proxy to the ScreenConnect instance. This is how you can Read more…
Use Robocopy to Preseed Files for DFS Replication I’ll write this here first, since it’s important: The folder in which you are robo-copying (ex c:\test) must not exist on the destination server (ex. f:\test). If you create the folder manually on the destination server, the file-hashes will not match and DFSr will Read more…
I wanted to write a short introduction to a tool that I’ve been using a lot on my newest servers and development projects. This tool seriously provides the most amazing way of monitoring and comprehending your server’s performance and other metrics that I’ve seen in such a simple, lightweight installation. Read more…
After setting up an NGINX webserver with a GoDaddy-issued SSL certificate, I did an SSL test and saw that I was graded a C. That’s average! I want a secure site. So I looked around at a couple of things, and decided to put together a small list of things Read more…