Let me say that I love Box.com. It allows me to have a great number of features for my computer storage needs. One of them is to host all my production videos and files across all my computers. But one annoying issue was how to move it to another drive….
Online Viewing of Microsoft Office Document
Office Web App is part of your Hotmail or Office 365 subscription. This is the main URL for the online version. But a customer can deploy it internally for their SharePoint use. https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src= You can view the file by adding a public URL of the file and the Office Web…
Remote Desktop Connection via RDS Gateway
In the windows world, you normally connect via the RDP protocol to your servers. If you want to secure the network you can use a Remote Desktop Gateway in order to provide access to your servers and control who can get access. 1 . Configure your RDP client with the…
How to configure your Linux Postfix server to forward email to Exchange Server 2013
In every environment you may have different devices and appliances that may need to send email or notifications. This guide will go thru the process on how to configure your Linux server with Postfix Mail Transfer Agent. Thru the guide I will use Ubuntu as the Linux distribution for the…
Windows 10 Preview with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
Microsoft released the Technical preview of their new Operating Systems. (Details Here) If you are like most IT Professionals, you may have downloaded the preview and try to use it for your basic computing environment. After playing with the new UI for a little bit, I installed the Cisco Anyconnect…
Configure Windows DNS for HCP 7 with PowerShell Script
The new Hitachi Content Platform version 7 is out and it is packed with several new features and enhancements. One of the new features is the DNS functionality. The new built-in DNS services drop the dependency on external DNS servers for DNS queries for the Tenants or namespace. The way…
Configure Hyper-V vSAN
One of the best features in Microsoft Windows Server 2012/R2 and Hyper-V Server 2012/R2 is the ability to connect a VM directly to your Fiber Channel Storage Array. This feature is called Virtual HBA or vSAN. In order to get this feature working we need to follow a couple of…
Install Operating System in your Base Virtual Machine
In this post we will install the Windows 2012 R2 Operating System on our BaseImage Virtual Machine. This will help us to create multiple virtual machines later from a single image. 1. In the Hyper-V Manager, select the VM created in the previous step. Ex: BaseImage and click settings. 2….
Create a Base Virtual Machine in Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V
Now we have your Client Hyper-V installed and the network configured. The next step is to create a virtual machine so you can use it as a template. We will go thru the process on creating your first virtual machine. 1. In your Hyper-V Manager Application, Right Click in your…
Configure Network for Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V
In this post I will go thru the steps to configure the network for your Windows 8.1 Client Hyper-V. This is needed so your VM’s can connect to the network. 1. Open your start screen and look for the Hyper-V Management Tools group. And click Hyper-V Manager 2. Click…