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Monitor Windows Performance Counters with Icinga or Nagios

Posted on June 6, 2010 at 12:08 am in

Icinga or Nagios can be easily used to monitor Windows Performance Counters. This is quite useful, because the most “monitor-relevant” information from Windows Systems is available through Performance Counters.

So, let’s start.

First we’ll do the Windows-Part.

Grab a copy of NSClient++ (Thanks a lot to Michael Medin for his great work on this AddOn) at http://nsclient.org/nscp/

I…

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Using Windows Mobile Device Emulator with Windows 7

Posted on June 5, 2010 at 6:40 pm in

How to get network connectivity with Windows Mobile Device Emulator on Windows 7

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SharePoint Designer 2010

Posted on April 26, 2010 at 10:37 pm in

SharePoint 2010 RTM Download

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Exchange 2010 – Service ‚MSExchangeTransport‘ failed to reach status ‚Running‘

Posted on April 12, 2010 at 9:26 pm in

Exchange 2010 – Service ‚MSExchangeTransport‘ failed to reach status ‚Running‘

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Time synchronization with virtual Domain Controllers

Posted on April 9, 2010 at 1:44 am in

How to configure time sync (NTP) within a Windows Active Directory. Furthermore special considerations when using virtual domain controllers

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Internet Speed Test

Posted on April 5, 2010 at 12:36 am in

Internet Speed Test to test your available bandwidth. Flash-Based or also with a simple file download, so you can also test it with wget or lynx or any other console-based tool.

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Installing SharePoint 2010 RC on a separate MS SQL Server

Posted on March 20, 2010 at 1:40 pm in

Today I’ll build another lab for SharePoint 2010. It was just one VM with DC and a separate SQL 2008 installed. While running the SharePoint 2010 RC Setup I had the problem that no screen appeared to choose the installation type. Normally (at least it was with SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 Beta that way)…

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An unexpected error has occurred when trying to create an Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint 2010

Posted on March 15, 2010 at 6:34 pm in

I thought I’m getting crazy with the above meaningless error message.
I tried to create an Enterprise Search Center within a site collection in SharePoint 2010. But I’ve received this error message all the time. I’ve also tried to create a new site collection, but without success.

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Offsite Data Backup with Unlimited Storage

Posted on March 12, 2010 at 12:41 am in

The amount of data we all use every day is increasing quite fast. And for private use it’s not such a problem, because you can buy a 1TB-HDD for less than 80Euro (for business use with FC or SAS HDD’s it’s a completly different story).
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