Servers

Microsoft has released the first service pack (Final release) for Windows 7. It is a collection of all previous updates. It is also includes client side support for RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory for Windows 7 VMs. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level. Both 64 bit and 32 …

Hi all, Microsoft launched IE9 RC successfully, in IE9 when we try to play videos, musics or TV shows which is based on Adobe flash,Microsoft silverlight or Java the plugins are not loading and it seems blank. The Java is not running in IE9 problem happens the user has installed the latest version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) into his …

From the time a servers goes to live environment its prone to too many attacks from the hands of crackers (hackers) also as a system administrator you need to secure your Linux server to protect and save your data, intellectual property, and time here server hardening comes into effect. Securing a server is much different than securing a desktop computer …

Here i am explaining how to integrate SquidGuard and Lightsquid  in a pfsense Squid Server.  Earlier we have published an article about the how to setup a proxy with pfSense Firewall distribution. as we know SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the Squid. Squid can perform better with SquidGuard. LightSquid is one of reporting package available …

Wikileaks is hosted at White Mountain Datacenter in Stockholm (Sweden), Pionen also houses dozens of servers belonging to other companies. These pictures show the Pionen data centre, 100 ft below ground in a former Cold War nuclear bunker.The datacenter is bomb proof . This is one of the most secure Datacenters in the world as it is housed in a …

Pfsense is a FreeBSD based Open source security distribution. Pfsense is basically using as a gateway device (firewall and router). But it can be expandable as many Server services like DNS, DHCP, Proxy Servers. Here I is the step by step procedure to install a Pfsense based Proxy server. Download pfSense CD from here http://www.pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=downloads Write The ISO file to …

Windows performance monitor is a real time performance monitoring tool. It gives result in three different ways, Graphical view Histogram view and plaint text counter view. Some times we need to log the utilization of a server for the future reference. It includes various  services like IIS, SQL, CPU, Disk usage etc.. you can write them to a file and …

Error : The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections Windows servers can establish only two remote desktop connections simultaneously. But if the session is in Disconnected mode ( If its close without log off  ) you can access this session again. But if any two sessions are logged in you cannot get a new RDP Connection. …

In an organization where when a server goes live an administrator would need to create a users with variable privileges . Some users will have special permissions with root credentials. We here are trying to block that privileged users from direct ssh log in. To Deny a User Open /etc/ssh/sshd_config file: # vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Append following names (directives): DenyUsers username …

Error: Starting VM ‘VMNAME- There were no servers available to complete the specified operation. This is a common error when a Xen Server restarts. We will confused that its problem with Storage device ! Because message gives information related to Storage. It will show even if it is running from a Local hard disk. Actually the problem is in Attached …