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70-640 Microsoft Active Directory exam – Passed

Posted by on January 15, 2013 6 comments

For the past few months I have been learning Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2 in order to take the certification exam. This morning I took the exam and passed it.

I have been wanting to do so many various IT related certifications for the last few years but have been distracted so much, first by going to university and then starting full time work. At last I’ve finally made some real progress on achieving the certification goals that I’ve set and by passing this one today it has motivated me to continue.

At the moment I am studying for the MCITP: Server Administrator which basically requires the following 3 exams:

70-640: Configuring Active Directory
70-642: Configuring Network Infrastructure
70-646: Server Administrator

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Increasing disk space in Windows Server 2008

Posted by on December 11, 2012 4 comments

This post will cover how to increase the disk space for a VMware virtual machine running Windows Server 2008. Firstly we will be increasing the size of the actual disk on the virtual machine, so at the hardware level – the VM’s .vmdk file. Once this is complete we will get into the virtual machine and make the necessary changes through the operating system GUI in order to take advantage of the additional space that has been provided by the hard disk being extended. The server can stay online while disk space is upgraded with this method which is ideal for most production servers – no rebooting is needed!

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Weighttpd, Windows and PowerShell

Posted by on July 30, 2012 1 comment

Recently I’ve been using a great benchmarking took called Weighttpd, from the makers of the Lighttpd Web Server. Weighttpd is great because it is multithreaded, unlike it’s ancient and still used predecessor, Apache Benchmark (ab). I have made a short PowerShell script that uses this tool in Windows in order to run benchmarks that step through concurrency levels.

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