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Microsoft MVP: Everything You Need to Know

Microsoft 70-741 exam and MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification All about the Microsoft 70-741 exam and the MCSA Certification: how pass them with a great score and why they are a great chance to boost your IT career

February 13, 2019February 18, 2019 - by Brad Hadin - 1 Comment

Are you an aspiring or working IT Professional? Do you want to make a good career in the IT Sector? If yes than you should know that for a good …

Linux / Servers & Services / Tools & Utilities / Web

How to Setup and Configure a VNC Server on Linux CentOS A comprehensive tutorial explaining how to install, setup and configure a VNC Server on a CentOS 7.x machine using TigerVNC Service

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 - by Ryan - 1 Comment

In this post we'll see how to setup and configure a VNC Server on a Linux CentOS 7.x server machine to allow remote connections from any VNC client - such as …

Cloud / Hardware / Mobile Devices / Network Devices / Servers & Services

Cloud-Based vs VOIP Telephone System: What Should You Choose? A comparison between the two most used business technologies to handle telecommunications between business organizations

November 27, 2018April 18, 2021 - by Lisa Cooper - 1 Comment

Regardless of the niche, a clear and well-established telephony service allows you to connect several operators at the same time, provide clear and high-quality communications, record, work through and improve …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Cron Jobs - Task Scheduler alternative How to configure a daily or weekly automatic shutdown & reboot of your machine using cron job in Linux CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 - by Ryan - 3 Comments.

Since we just published a guide to setup an auto-reboot or auto-shutdown on Windows machines, we thought that it could be useful to do the same for Linux systems as …

Impostare lo Shutdown o il Reboot automatico di Windows

Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Windows

Windows - Auto-Reboot and Shutdown with Task Scheduler - Cron Jobs alternative How to setup the automatic reboot and/or shutdown of a Windows 10 or Windows Server machine with the built-in Task Scheduler feature

November 20, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

Despite the common belief, the practice of programming a system reboot or shutdown of a client or server machine isn't necessarily a bad thing: in some limited scenario planning a regular …

MySQL Master-Master Replication setup in 5 easy steps

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB sock file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.sock files and folders

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Yesterday I wrote a small tutorial explaining how to fix a common MySQL or MariaDB problem related to the pid file not being created upon the service startup. That same …

Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services

Linux - MySQL and MariaDB pid-file folder issues - how to fix How to force MySQL and MariaDB services to create the /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid and /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid files and folders

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 - by Ryan - 6 Comments.

If you've stumbled upon this post it most likely means that you've just discovered that your MySQL or MariaDB service, despite running without issues, are not creating their mysqld.pid or …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services

Common Firewall Configuration Errors and how to avoid them A useful list of the most widespread mistakes that System Administrators should be aware of

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 - by Emily Jacobs - Leave a Comment

With cyber attacks on the rise, proper firewall configuration is more important now than ever before. As most breaches are the result of configuration errors, your firewall is essential to …

Coding / Servers & Services / SQL / Windows

SQL Server - Call a URL using GET or POST method and fetch Status Code and Response Text How to execute a GET or POST call to an external URL within a Stored Procedure (using HTTP or HTTPS protocol) and retrieve the StatusCode and ResponseText

November 9, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

We already talked about the MSXML2.XMLHTTP and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP objects in an older post: these objects provides methods and properties for server-safe HTTP access between different Web servers and can be used to exchange …

IIS - How to setup the web.config file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io)

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

NGINX - How to setup the nginx.conf file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io) How to setup the nginx.conf to secure all your Nginx-hosted websites with the required HTTP Security Headers and get A rate from securityheaders.io scan.

November 5, 2018August 14, 2019 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

We already explained the basics about HTTP Security Headers in this previous post: it's now time to put all these words into action and learn how we can implement them …