Aug 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Use Device-Alias on a Cisco MDS

As I continue on my journey of learning how to manage storage I have learned about using device aliases instead of pwwn’s directly. The benefit to using device-alias in this manner makes it easy when a device has new pwwn’s assigned to it (due to hardware replacement or in the case of a blade a move to a new chassis) that you can update the device-alias and not have to make any other storage... read more

Aug 19, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Temporarily Stop a Windows 10 Driver Update

With the recent release of a new version there are always bugs or glitches that arise. Generally the most common are driver updates by either Microsoft or the vendor. With new releases most commonly the video drivers are usually the first to have issues. In this post we will cover how to temporarily disable the Windows driver update using a tool provided by Microsoft called Show or Hide Updates... read more

Aug 18, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.6.26 on Windows 10

Windows 10 has been released on the world and so an updated how to guide for installing Apache, PHP and MySQL on the latest release. In this post like previous we will cover installing all the programs individually. This will cover installing 64 bit versions of the programs. Apache 2.4 Install First download Apache 2.4 from http://www.apachelounge.com/download/ (httpd-2.4.16-win32.zip) Apache 2.4.16 VC11... read more

Aug 16, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Change IPMI Settings on SuperMicro in Windows

After receiving new SuperMicro hardware was tasked with server hardening. One of  the many over looked tasks is changing the default password on the remote access. This post explains how to set the various parameters used by IPMI on SuperMicro servers. The IPMI (aka iLo, DRAC) on SuperMicro Servers is maintained by using the IPMICFG tool. Download the utility from ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMICFG/... read more

Aug 13, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Squeeze More Space on Your Windows C drive

As a system administrator you are always fighting the battle to keep the C:\ drive as clean as possible, which at times can be a job in itself. In this post we will discuss a few places where you can get a few more MB or GB from the drive. These tricks apply on Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2. Compress c:\windows\installer directory You can gain about half the space used by this folder by... read more