HP iLO Technology Remote Control for Critical Application Server Support

Update 05262022 HP iLO is one of the technologies developed exclusively, at least originally, for server support. The technology developed and progressed to be a stable platform for remotely accessing servers for installation, maintenance and support. One of the most useful aspects of this technology is that it provides a means to conne
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VMware VCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Limitations

•No Update Manager
•No Linked-Mode
•No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance)
•Only support for Oracle as the external database
•Embedded database, DB2, only supports 5 hosts and 50 VMs
•No support for vCenter Heartbeat

Windows is still required if you are running VUM and you can only use Oracle for large virtual environments… Those are probably the two biggest co
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Disable IE Enhanced Security on 2008 Server



Start server manager on the 2008 server and click on Enhanced IE sestting
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New with the latest release of Microsoft's messaging platform, Exchange 2007, is the ability to split functions of the emailing system into roles or functions. The roles can be installed onto multiple separate server hardware.

Enabling the functions to be broken out to more that one server has enabled more than a more complex install but an emailing syste
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Issuing the command, nltest /dbflag:0x20000004 at a command prompt will maintain a log in a folder on the server. The directory is, %systemroot%\debug\netlogon.log. This folder and file are always there but are empty. By running this command, it will track user logon activity and very simple to do and see.

This method doesn't require additional services to be added or a server restart. The log file is always there but always empty. After issuing the command, user logon activity is logged an
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