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Monitor Windows Performance Counters with Icinga or Nagios

June 6, 2010 - 12:08 am

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/

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Using Windows Mobile Device Emulator with Windows 7

June 5, 2010 - 6:40 pm

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

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SharePoint Designer 2010

April 26, 2010 - 10:37 pm

SharePoint 2010 RTM Download

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

April 12, 2010 - 9:26 pm

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

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Time synchronization with virtual Domain Controllers

April 9, 2010 - 1:44 am

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

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Installing SharePoint 2010 RC on a separate MS SQL Server

March 20, 2010 - 1:40 pm

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

March 15, 2010 - 6:34 pm

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.

Suddenly I had the idea to try it with SharePoint…

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Windows Storage Server 2008 – Default Password

August 27, 2009 - 11:33 pm

As MSDN or Technet Subscriber you have the possibility to download and Install-DVD for Windows Storage Server 2008. Normally it will be shipped just by OEM’s. So when you want to play around with it like me, for example to use it as an iSCSI-Target for a Cluster-Lab you’ll be surprised that the installation finish…

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