In this post, my goal is to provide the steps one must take in a typical non-domain environment to set up Hyper-V Server 2016 and remotely manage it via Hyper-V Manager from a Windows 10 PC. I will split this post into three sections; what to do on the Hyper-V…
UPDATE April 2018: I found a really nice MIT course at edX.org “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python” and jumped into that. I’m still deep into that in my spare time and it’s going great! I do recommend it. I’ve recently become a little interested in getting my…
How often do you wish you didn’t have to spin up a full blown Windows File Server, but would rather spin up a minimal Linux Samba file server with Microsoft AD for authentication instead? Spinning up a Linux file server running Samba and using MS Active Directory for authentication via…
Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a browser-based, locally deployed management tool for IT Admins to manage Windows Server and Windows 10 systems. Windows Admin Center is now production ready and will continue to grow and mature. In this post, I’m just going to cover the bare-basics of getting it up…
This guide assumes you already have a working LAMP server, and have already met the WordPress requirements. Prerequisites The WordPress requirements as of 2018 February: PHP 7.2 or greater MySQL 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB 10.0 or greater Nginx or Apache with mod_rewrite module HTTPS support Click here for my…
This will guide you through the process of setting up a Fedora 27 LAMP server with SSL (https) from Let’s Encrypt. Installing Fedora 27 Install Fedora 27 via Net Install ISO. In Software Selection, select Minimal Install. It may take a minute to download metadata before you can go in…
Relax-and-Recover allows you to back up a Linux server by creating a bare-metal image of the system. This can be stored any number of places such as on the network, tape, USB, etc. It can also be used to migrate a Linux installation to another host. ReaR is not for…
There are quite a few steps you need to take to harden your server in the context of security. These should be done no matter your deployment scenario, but is especially true if your server is facing the public internet.
Salt consists of a master server that controls or manages client servers and computers. The master server is known as the Salt-Master and the clients are known as Salt-Minions. This is PART 1: Installing and Configuring SaltStack PART 2 will be all about managing minions. Installing the Salt-Master Following the LANless…
Hyper-V does not expose Virtualization Extensions to Linux VMs (for nested virtualization) automatically. However, Microsoft provides a PowerShell script to run against the Linux VM in which you want to use nested virtualization. The PowerShell script runs a few basic Hyper-V PowerShell commands against the VM, which basically enable the…
