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Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012
Note: Article updated to reflect changes as of February 2016 Installing WordPress on Windows Servers have been a challenge for me in the past. Mostly because of my ignorance to web development and the...
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SQL Server 2012 install error enabling Windows Feature NetFx3
While creating one of many Lync scenario labs, I chose to install SQL Server 2012 instead of my usual install of SQL 2008 on Windows Server 2012. Going about my happy routine after clicking install, I...
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Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 1
Most of us IT Pros usually have a lab of some kind. Mostly running some form of virtualization and if you are Microsoft savvy, chances are you are running Hyper-V either on Windows 7/8 pro edition so...
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Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how you can route between VMs on same host using networks connected to “Internal” virtual switch. Now let’s look at how to route between VMs when your lab...
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Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 1
Many times in my past years of IT, I wanted to have DHCP load balancing and high availability. It was possible by creating non-overlapping scopes etc. but that was all manual labor of making sure you...
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Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 2
In Part 1, I provided with walk through of how to install DHCP and configure scope on your newly installed DHCP server. In this post, we are going to setup failover between two servers. I am assuming...
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Disk performance information missing on Windows 2012 R2 – Blast from the past!
Recently, I replaced a disk in my iScsi NAS. Since I wasn’t using any RAID on the disk I was replacing, I decided to copy data from old volume to new using robocopy. As my copy continued in the...
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How to enable Hibernate on Windows 10
When I received my new Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 preinstalled, I noticed that option to hibernate was missing from Power options in start menu: I have been running Windows 10 on my home systems but...
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Replace Command Prompt with PowerShell in Windows 10 Win+X menu
I’m sure this has been written about many times in many places but whenever I install Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on my machines/VMs, I seem to keep forgetting so this would be a good way to remember. If...
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Remotely accessing admin shares on Windows 10
I’m sure I have come across this issue before but never cared to document it here on my blog. And when I do that, I am sure to trip up again and forget what I did to fix it. So this time, I’m going to...
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