The top 20 Swiss technology blogs
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How to enable administrative shares on Windows 10
In some cases there is a need to enable the Admin Shares of local hard disks, commonly for administrative purposes. The Admin shares are the default shares (aka Administrative shares) […]
How to enable SNMP on a VMware ESXi hypervisor & vCenter appliance
SNMP can be fully configured on an ESXi hypervisor through the ESX CLI. The commands vary between different versions of ESXi. How to enable SNMP on ESXi 5.0 You will […]
How to create a 1GB, 100MB, 10MB file for testing
On Linux dd is the command from Linux that i use. To create 1 GB file go with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=1024000 to create 100 MB try dd if=/dev/zero […]
How to install SmokePing on CentOS 7
This tutorial explains how to install Tobias Oetiker’s Smokeping into /opt/smokeping on a CentOS 7 box. Features of Smokeping: – Best of breed latency visualisation. – Interactive graph explorer. – […]
How do I change a domain controller’s IP address?
As a critical part of your IT infrastructure, domain controllers (DC) should be assigned a static IP address so that they can be reliably discovered across the network. Sometimes it’s […]
How to install Webmin and MRTG on CentOS 7
Install Webmin Install Webmin requirements and install Webmin via RPM directly from the website. # yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay # yum -y install perl-Encode-Detect # rpm -ihv https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.840/webmin-1.840-1.noarch.rpm Install Apache Here […]
WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Tool Released; Unlock Files Without Paying Ransom
If your PC has been infected by WannaCry – the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the world last Friday – you might be lucky to get your locked files back […]
PHP redirect to a domain if the called domain is equal to another domain
Question: Is it possible to redirect a user opening a domain to a different domain through the use of PHP? Say the user goes to www.domainA.com and I want to […]
Domain-joined Windows 10: “Network access is denied” on SYSVOL and NETLOGON
Windows 10 became more securely, so you can’t access sysvol & netlogon shares via UNC paths – regardless if your user is Domain-Administrator or not. To resolve this issue run […]