for windows servers (that use IIS) a CSR can be generated from the IIS manager. csr creation: http://www.digicert.com/csr-creation.htm certificate import/export process: http://www.digicert.com/import-export-ssl-certificate.htm info for tomcat certs: https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/keytool.htm http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-tomcat.htm specific tomcat info regarding sysaid: http://www.sysaid.com/Sysforums/posts/list/329.page for apache, it might be necessary to combine the entire cert chain in a single file. to do so create a […]

according to this: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5493/~/cannot-see-hosted-database filemaker 12 pro cannot connect to filemaker server 11. also filemaker pro 11 would be unable to connect to filemaker server 12 as the databases would need to be in v12 format to be hosted.

project server 2010 needs to run on top of sharepoint 2010 enterprise. you can supposedly install project server 2010 as a stand-alone instance, but even when doing so, it is installing sharepoint 2010 components underneath it. i haven’t tried this myself. anyways, microsoft docs say such a setup wouldn’t be production worthy. this site tells […]

i guess certain video apps require a wmvcore.dll to be present in windows. the dll seems to be related to windows media player. anyways, to install the library in windows server add the windows feature “Desktop Experience” and reboot. source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ramg/archive/2010/02/09/using-camtasia-on-windows-2008-server.aspx

deleting a service in windows can be done like so: from a administrator cmd prompt run sc delete “<service name>” source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-windows-service-in-vista-or-xp/

after skimming multiple articles online i decided to change my 802.11n network’s frequency to 5ghz. several articles pointed out that there’s much less interference on the 5ghz band, better performance, and overall that it’s the “preferred” frequency for 802.11n. turns out that i should have read more into the articles. a big downside to using […]

the original tomato firmware hasn’t been updated in some time. it looks like development ceased on a promising tomato mod called tomatoUSB as well. however, tomatoUSB did add compatibility to newer routers such as the cisco/linksys e2000. there are 2 active mods that branched off from tomatoUSB that i’m interested in. they are: shibby – http://tomato.groov.pl tomato […]

the time has finally come where i need to move on to ESXi. i decided if i must do it, then i might as well install it on an SD card. so i went to check our r710’s and they don’t have the internal sd card module. what we paid for instead was the vflash […]

info to consider before deleting a user: BB55385 https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB55385

keep base image as small as possible lock down guest OS so end-users cannot write data outside of network shares replicas stored on fast disks (SSDs or 15K), linked clones on slower disks windows 7 image, 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM (2GB for power users) suggested max desktops in a pool = 400 (verify) per vmware […]