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    Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
    by Peter Galli on August 10, 2009

    Jason Perlow, a columnist over at ZDNet, has written a comprehensive review on virtualizing free Linux distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2. In his Tech Broiler column, Perlow notes that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer... more

    MindTouch: Open Source Collaboration Built on .NET
    by Aaron Fulkerson on August 04, 2009

    It has been a while since I last guest wrote at Port25, which is always a pleasure. Today, I am writing about the latest MindTouch software release, codename Minneopa, which introduces three new innovative capabilities ... more

    Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services
    by jcannon on June 17, 2008

    Abstract : Microsoft Terminal Services provides an important set of functionality for remote administration and centralized application management. This service allows administrators to log in remotely and with full access to the system. Similarly, users... more

    Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability
    by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008

    First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more

    • Wednesday, February 27, 2008
    • in: Server Center
    • Community Contributor
    Technical Analysis: Apache with mod_auth_kerb and Windows Server
    by jcannon on January 25, 2008

    The Apache authentication module mod_auth_kerb allows Apache to authenticate users against a Kerberos KDC including one from ActiveDirectory. Kerberos itself can be fairly complex to set up. This guide will attempt to show the specific steps required to make this possible as well as discuss security limitations specific to the interoperability matters. ... more

    Systems Manageability Part 7 - Log Management and Analysis
    by kishi on August 07, 2007

    This blog includes open-source technology directed primarily at host-based logging, log file rotation and log file analysis. Many of these tools are very common free and open-source software tools that are distributed and preconfigured with most of the major Linux systems, including major vendors such as RedHat and Novell. ... more

    • Tuesday, August 07, 2007
    • in: Community
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    Systems Manageability Part 6: Patch Management and Online Updates
    by kishi on June 29, 2007

    This is blog number six in the Systems Manageability Series. Patch Management and Maintenance focuses on those solutions available to deploy and install software update on Linux systems, with a primary focus on Novell based Linux systems...... more

    Systems Manageability Part Five: Monitoring
    by kishi on June 21, 2007

    This is Part 5, continuation of the series of 8 blogs I’m doing on Systems Manageability. In this specific blog, I will focus on and explain the third part of the “ontology” which is “Monitoring”...... more

    • Thursday, June 21, 2007
    • in: Community
    • kishi
    Core
    by billhilf on June 07, 2007

    We recently announced the addition of IIS7 to the Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 (formerly known as Longhorn Server). Server Core is an important evolution of our server product and will include a variety of roles, such as print server, media services, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and now IIS7 for Web serving...... more

    • Thursday, June 07, 2007
    • in: Community
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    Systems Manageability Part 4: Systems Configuration
    by kishi on May 25, 2007

    System Configuration and Management encompasses all tasks related to the configuration of a host in a standardized and (when possible) centralized way. Many projects in this category provide a common configuration interface, either command-line or GUI-based, designed to ease typical administrative tasks. Other projects, specifically Cfengine, provide a higher level policy-based system to provide... more

    Systems Manageability Part 3 - Provisioning and Deployment
    by kishi on May 03, 2007

    Deployment and Provisioning as we understand it, encompasses all tasks related to the initial installation of an operating system on remote system, as well as post-installation of software on a remote system. Much of these toolsets are geared toward automated system provisioning and cloning. There’s lots of different tools out there that can be used but we have focused on the most popular ones, namely... more

    Thinking about HPC Infrastructure
    by kishi on December 01, 2006

    I started the first HPC blog (See “previous blog“) with an understanding that HPC is an area where there has been a surge of activity from a development/investment standpoint. So after getting a basic understanding behind the importance of why HPC matters, the next logical step that needed uncovering was “How to think” about HPC Infrastructure and tap into the “wisdom” behind managing it...... more

    • Friday, December 01, 2006
    • in: Community
    • kishi
    Overloading 'Clusters'
    by Frank Chism on October 20, 2006

    I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Looking Glass Land. This usually occurs when I’m talking to someone new to cluster computing or someone who comes from a different tread of the industry than I do. My roots are in a thread that used number crunching to mean serious floating point arithmetic done... more

    • Friday, October 20, 2006
    • in: Community
    • Frank Chism
    Centeris was Here
    by MichaelF on October 12, 2006

    Capturing the sentiment from my colleagues, Anandeep, Hank and Sam – I LOVE THIS JOB !!! Last week I had a chance to meet w/ Mozilla, watch Sam interview Steve Wozniak and the wonder of it never ceases to amaze me...... more

    • Thursday, October 12, 2006
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Infrastructure Management and Strategic Design: Part 4 – Service Management Frameworks
    by jcannon on August 01, 2006

    Today, the IT departments offering and managing various IT Services might find themselves in what I would call a “pressure-cooker”. They are faced with a multitude of tasks and added pressure to maintain daily operations while driving efficacy, managing the growing complexity of Service Offerings and most importantly, doing so while keeping pace with the industry best practices. This has been one of... more

    • Tuesday, August 01, 2006
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
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