Category: Servers
AMD Motherboard and Video Drivers for HPE MicroServers
article #1381, updated 237 days ago

Tweaking Windows File Servers and Filesystem Performance
article #1319, updated 546 days ago
Some interesting items here for overall filesystem performance:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/role/file-server/

Simple Microsoft SQL performance gains
article #1256, updated 580 days ago
Open up your SQL server instance in the Studio. Go to the Properties of your instance.
Under Memory, you will see a minimum and a maximum. Set the minimum to 1024 (MB) or 2048. Reserve 4 gigabytes RAM minimum for the OS, add some more for anything else running on it, then use the rest as your maximum memory usage setting.
Also under Memory, you will see “Minimum memory per query”. Default is 1024. Set this to 2048.
Then under Processors, check “Boost SQL Server priority”.
And click OK.
Some info here:

Rename desktops in Windows domain from command line
article #31, updated 807 days ago
The simplest appears to be thus:
wmic computersystem where caption='oldcomputername' rename newcomputername
If it is run from an administrative CMD and the machine is in good talking relationship with its domain controller, the PC and also AD rename will complete. If either prerequisite is not met, the rename will fail. A non-admin attempt fails with code 5, DC availability fails with 1355.
There is also tool, part of the 2003 server reskit and included later on, which can do the rename of a desktop from a domain controller:
NETDOM RENAMECOMPUTER OLDNAME /newname:NEWNAME /userd:domain\domainadmin /passwordd:password /force /reboot:0
It causes a reboot of the target machine. /reboot:0 means no delay; the number is in seconds.

High Memory Use on Servers by NTFS Metafiles
article #1199, updated 985 days ago
Great info here:
http://woshub.com/fixing-high-memory-usage-by-metafile-on-windows-server-2008-r2/
using this for investigation:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff700229.aspx
and this service for cure:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9258

Open source LAN-local search
article #1189, updated 1015 days ago
There are several tools fitting this general description, but this writer has only found one turnkey installable. This is Yacy:
Very fast, quite straightforward to set up and configure (though you’ll learn a thing or two if you’ve never thought about search very much!), almost not at all counterintuitive. It can be easily set up as either a LAN-local search server or part of its distributed WWW network.
There is a runner up, Open Search Server:
If its documentation were remotely adequate, it might be comparable, but sadly, not.

Migrate Windows file shares between servers, with permissions
article #1168, updated 1058 days ago
Good article, sent by the remarkable Zach Hogan:
https://sysblogging.com/2015/12/29/how-to-migrate-windows-file-server-shares-with-ntfs-permissions/

GUI SFTP/SCP (SSH File Transfer) Server for Windows
article #1166, updated 1072 days ago
SFTP, also called SCP, is not, accurately speaking, FTP. SFTP is “SSH File Transfer”, transfer of files over the SSH protocol, and not the FTP protocol. The FTP protocol has its own excellent secure (FTPS) capabilities, FileZilla being a recommended graphical FTP server for Windows; but GUI servers for SSH are much harder to find. Happily, here is one:

Current version of PHP and other items on CentOS and RHEL
article #850, updated 1142 days ago
Here are two very helpful sources. For many general things, the EPEL repository:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
and for PHP and other server-specifics, current versions and others more recent than the OSes supply by themselves, Remi:
http://rpms.remirepo.net/

When Group Policy Templates Are Corrupt
article #1099, updated 1248 days ago
An elegant solution from here:
Just go here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6243
and download the current versions of all of the templates (the above is for 2008R2, here’s to hoping Microsoft makes them available for all server versions), and replace them.