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Hyper-V VM Backups

  By Chris | February 19, 2012 - 10:00 pm | Tech
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I was looking around for a quicker and easier way to do automated backups for running Hyper-V guests as part of a recent work project. As you might guess, there are tons of options – mostly it comes down to how much you want to spend. I had been told … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, BackupChain, hyper-v, Tech-Ops, virtualization

IIS: No Monitoring Hits in the Logs

  By Chris | September 12, 2010 - 8:25 am | Tech
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A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was changing my IIS web server configurations to (hopefully) better manage memory and App Pools. That’s been working out quite satisfactorily. Yesterday I realized the changes I made can give another nice side effect. I was preparing to start some maintenance … Continue reading →

Tagged IIS, monitoring, Tech-Ops

Fun With WhatsUp and PsService.exe

  By Chris | September 8, 2010 - 3:21 pm | Tech
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This is probably a bit obscure but writing it up will surely help someone — if not myself next time around… I use WhatsUp Gold to monitor the machines at work. Been using it for years and it has worked great for us. Recently I hit a little challenge though. … Continue reading →

Tagged Event-Viewer, monitoring, PsService, sysinternals, Tech-Ops, WhatsUp

Oh, Did You Want a Timeout?

  By Chris | August 24, 2010 - 9:32 pm | Tech
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Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. … Continue reading →

Tagged IIS, monitoring, Tech-Ops, WhatsUp, windows-2003

Windows NFS: Don’t Forget .maphosts

  By Chris | July 25, 2010 - 9:43 am | Tech
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I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, microsoft, NFS, Openfiler, Tech-Ops, Windows, Windows-7
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