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Encrypting Your Hard Drive Using BitLocker Drive Encryption
In this article, we will talk about one of the most effective and powerful encryption mechanisms available with Windows Systems. BitLocker is a feature that enables you to encrypt your hard drive data so that it becomes practically impenetrable by hackers. This means that even if your portable device gets in the wrong hands, without […]
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How to Install & Configure Windows Server Update Service (WSUS)
What is WSUS? Windows Server Update Service is a program that has been developed by Microsoft for delivering patches and updates to windows operating systems in a corporate environment. With installing and configuring WSUS in your corporate network you will no longer need to manually install updates and hotfixes that are periodically released by Microsoft. […]
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Choosing a Network Monitoring Solution – TechRepublic
Take a look at our write up in TechRepublic, featuring PA Server Monitor, and how some of our customers have used it. Considerations for Choosing a Network Monitoring Solution It talks about why server monitoring is good for business, and choosing between “paid” or “rented” software solutions. A big thanks to Nick Hardiman at TechRepublic […]
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How to Configure DNS Client Settings
In this article we will discuss some of the DNS settings that each workstation must be configured to in order to communicate within a computer network. DNS is one of the most important services that run within a network or even in the Internet. The infrastructure of the Domain Name System can differ from one […]
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Windows 2003 and High CPU Usage in Svchost
Windows 2003 is getting a bit long in the tooth, but we’ve got a number of customers that are still happily using it, and for good reason — it’s a solid work horse of an OS. We’ve recently come upon an issue where some of our 2003 servers in the lab were pegging the CPU […]
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Try PA Server Monitor, Get a Bottle of Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ Sauce FREE!
Oklahoma Joe’s has been Featured on The Travel Channel’s “No Reservations” with Anthony Bourdain and “Man vs Food.” Anthony Bourdain claimed it was “One of Thirteen Places to Eat Before You Die.” Oklahoma Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que has been named Kansas City’s “Best Barbecue” by Zagat every year since 2004! Men’s Health magazine named it […]
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Building OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2012 for 32- or 64-bit
For our programmer (dev/ops) friends, we thought we’d share a little about building OpenSSL. There are a lot of examples online, but we kept finding they had little glitches, not quite complete, etc. So here is how we built it: You need Perl installed. ActiveState’s free community Perl install is just fine. First, you need to […]
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SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm & Windows 2003
In 2012, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicated that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm should no longer be used by federal agencies. Our products use self-signed SSL certificates by default (you can replace that with your own certificate), and SHA-1 is used as the signature algorithm. We started researching moving to SHA-2 […]
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How to Monitor MS SQL Server
This will be the third in our blog series about monitoring. The first covered monitoring IIS and the second, monitoring ASP.NET. Please take a look at these first to get some basic information about how to monitor different Windows products. In today’s article we will focus on how to use monitoring software to visualize, troubleshoot […]
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How to Monitor ASP.NET
Last week we talked about how to monitor IIS. Today we’re going to discuss monitoring ASP.NET. We’ll cover a number of things including: the main implications of monitoring ASP.net, the most important performance counters to look for, performance counter values that should be measured and services dependent on ASP.net that should be monitored. If you […]
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