Sysadmin Lab

Do be able to move VMs between XenServers without shutting them down you need to create a pool You could do this via GUI: But I ran into problems since I have one ML115 G1 and one G5 with different CPUs. The GUI gave me the error “This server’s hardware is incompatible with the master’s“: Run cat /proc/cpuinfo to get details and see if the CPUs differ and you can force them even though they differ. Just be careful when [...]

I’m a big fan of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) to RDP efficiently to all my servers. I wrote a little about it while it still was an “Microsoft internal only” app here. But what about the alternatives? Well, I did some research and here are the ones I found. Many of them support more protocols than RDP, like VNC, Citrix, SSH etc. Product Price 1 user Price 1 company Comment Last version/date *) CoRD $0 $0 Only if you’re [...]

In my lab I have a TMG 2010 to publish stuff on the inside to the Internet. I wanted to harden the OS to make it more secure and this is how I did it using the Security Configuration Wizard with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. IMPORTANT: Make sure to test this in a lab before doing it in production, otherwise you will probably break stuff! That’s why I have my lab which this site is dedicated to. I [...]