Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level. It also provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback. This enables organizations to deploy a single set of updates. Windows 7 and Windows Server [...]

When we talk about cisco switches the "ip routing" and "default-gateway" is two common commands that we use for configure the routing info. But if you didn't use this 2 carefully it can cause some serious routing issues. You cannot use both of this in same time in any switches. Use of default-gateway To define a default gateway (router) when IP routing is disabled, use the ip default-gateway global configuration command. To disable this function, [...]

This tutorial will explain how to install AD on server 2008. This will valid for windows 2008 R2 as well. Requirement: Minimum: Single processor with 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or 1.3GHz (Dual Core) Minimum: 512 MB RAM Minimum: 32 GB or greater The first step is to assign a ip to the server that you going to deploy the AD. Its nessary to install it as DNS server too. So its better to have fixed [...]

Windows 2008 core its great creation of Microsoft. It's basically a light version of windows 2008 and comes without all the GUI stuff. There are tools that you can install in core installation and get the GUI. In here I'm going to demonstrate how to setup domain control using Command prompt. Requirement : Minimum: 1 GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) Minimum: 512 MB RAM Minimum (32-bit systems): 20 GB or greater Minimum [...]

When talk about core 2008 the most admin have this issue since that for even easy task like changing hostname it have to everything via command line. When it comes to a task like setup dc with windows core and doing it via command line its much time consuming. In server 2008 R2 Microsoft gave some more help for admins to use some tools. In 2008 r2 you can use "sconfig" to configure the core [...]

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool‘s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. For More information http://www.cacti.net/what_is_cacti.php first login as root to the [...]

How to Restore off a mounted slave disk on Redhat + Cpanel (crash/hack/bad kernel) Warning: This is not to be done by the unexperienced admins bad things could happen. Hire someone. Sometimes if you get hacked or boot with a bad kernel you need to have the datacenter mount your old drive, and install a new one with a fresh installation of redhat. First things first lets make sure you have an updated kernel, we [...]

1. Login to your server and su – to root (do not forget the – after su). 2. Change to the /home directory: # cd /home 3. Run the following command: (this may take a while depending on the size of your site) # /scripts/pkgacct USERNAME (NOTE: USERNAME is the name of the user account not domain in cPanel). 4. Move the resulting file to the home directory of your primary user: # mv /home/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz [...]