Monthly Archives: January 2017

How To Install Cinnamon GUI In CentOS 7 Linux

Posted by on January 31, 2017 16 comments
How To Install Cinnamon Desktop In CentOS

By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the GNOME graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up after system boot, however if we have installed CentOS without a GUI installed we can always install one later, or optionally we can install a different GUI.

This quick guide will cover how to install the Cinnamon desktop on CentOS 7, which will provide a GUI for working with the Linux system. While I don’t suggest using a GUI on a production server, it’s a good option if you’re using CentOS as a desktop.

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Configure automatic updates for Windows Server 2016

Posted by on January 30, 2017 No comments
Configure Automatic Windows Updates

In this post we will show you how to use group policy to configure computers within an Active Directory domain to perform automatic Windows updates from either the Internet or a WSUS server that you manage.

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11 touch Command Examples For Linux

Posted by on January 25, 2017 No comments
Touch Command Examples For Linux

The ‘touch’ command is used to modify the time stamp of an existing file, or to create new empty files.

Touch comes from the GNU Coreutils package and should be available by default in Unix/Linux based operating systems.

The practical examples throughout this guide will show you how to use the touch command.

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Create computer groups for WSUS

Posted by on January 24, 2017 6 comments
Create WSUS Computer Groups

This post will cover how to create and manage computer groups in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for Windows Server 2016.

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How To Install Xfce GUI In CentOS 7 Linux

Posted by on January 23, 2017 12 comments
How To Install Xfce Desktop In CentOS

By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the GNOME graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up after system boot, however if we have installed CentOS without a GUI installed we can always install one later, or optionally we can install a different GUI.

This quick guide will cover how to install the Xfce desktop on CentOS 7, which will provide a GUI for working with the Linux system. While I don’t suggest using a GUI on a production server, it’s a good option if you’re using CentOS as a desktop.

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How To Install GNOME GUI In CentOS 7 Linux

Posted by on January 18, 2017 10 comments
How To Install GNOME Desktop In CentOS

By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up after system boot, however if we have installed CentOS without the GUI we can always install it later.

This quick guide will cover how to install the GNOME 3 desktop on CentOS 7, which will provide a GUI for working with the Linux system. While I don’t suggest using a GUI on a production server, it’s a good option if you’re using CentOS as a desktop.

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Configure WSUS reporting in Windows Server 2016

Posted by on January 17, 2017 9 comments
Configure WSUS Reporting

WSUS is quite powerful in that it can provide us reports containing useful information regarding which Windows machines have which Windows updates applied, allowing us to get a good overview of our environment.

This type of information will be useful if you’re required to perform any type of compliance check to ensure that your servers are properly patched. In this post we’ll take a look at installing the software required to view the reports as well as how to run the reports.

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How To Install KDE Plasma GUI In CentOS 7 Linux

Posted by on January 16, 2017 12 comments
How To Install KDE Plasma Desktop In CentOS

By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the GNOME graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up after system boot, however if we have installed CentOS without a GUI installed we can always install one later, or optionally we can install a different GUI.

This quick guide will cover how to install the KDE Plasma desktop on CentOS 7, which will provide a GUI for working with the Linux system. While I don’t suggest using a GUI on a production server, it’s a good option if you’re using CentOS as a desktop.

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How To Fix MariaDB 10.0.29 SELinux Update Failure

Posted by on January 14, 2017 15 comments
Fixing Failed MariaDB Update

I have this server to set to automatically perform a ‘yum update -y’ once every 24 hours in order to keep it automatically up to date. After the most recent MariaDB update to version 10.0.29-1.el7.centos in CentOS 7.3 I found that it failed to start back up correctly, here’s how to fix it.

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Linux VS Windows Web Server Benchmarks

Posted by on January 12, 2017 20 comments
Windows vs Linux web server benchmark test

Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks and Windows web server benchmarks, I noticed that in general IIS appeared to perform better than all Linux based web servers that I’d previously tested.

As my Linux results were completed in March last year, I’ve run some of the tests again with the most up to date versions of each web server to ensure that the best performance can be achieved.

So let’s find out how Linux and Windows based web servers compare against each other in a static workload speed test.

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