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Accelerating Branch Office File Sharing with MS BranchCache

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

I’ve done a bunch of articles about how to save your bandwidth when you are trying to replicate backups and virtual machines to your disaster recovery site, however I don’t think I have ever talked about anything that accelerates active…

The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level backup software) do not do a true system state backup…

vTiger Open Source CRM

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This post is a little late because of some time issues I had last week. So without further delay… This is week number three of my SMB Open Source software series and so far we have a back office server…

Ubuntu Desktop with Zentyal Integration

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

This week I thought we should build on the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server that we took a look at last Friday. After all what good is a Linux server if you are still accessing it from a Windows desktop…

Zentyal Linux Small Business Server

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

To start off my Friday open source project series I picked Zentyal. Zentyal is meant as a complete replacement for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, as it has modules that do pretty much everything SBS can. The description from…

Open Source Project Reviews

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

One of the things that I spent a lot of my free time on while I was at college was open source projects. I loved to surf Sourceforge.com and Freshmeat.net looking for interesting projects that I could mess around with.…

Microsoft Licensing in a Virtual World

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

I have thought about touching this topic several times, and each time I start to write the post I find myself stopping. I think it’s mostly because this debate is hard for some people to get their hands around, and…

Hyper-V 3 for Me

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Brad Eley | 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform may be a 12 year old hanging out with a bunch of high school seniors, but this pre-teen is mature for his age. Could Hyper-V be the Doogie Howser of virtual infrastructures? I am humbled to…

HP NIC Teaming on 2008 Server Core

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 9 Comments

As part of an upcoming HyperV project, I was tasked with installing 2008 R2 Server Core with the HyperV role on an HP DL360 G7 server. So I started out by loading the Windows OS just like normal… with the…