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Assigning Privileges with sudo and PolicyKit

If you give users who are usually supervised more scope to help themselves, they will need additional privileges. The sudo tool and the PolicyKit authorization service can control who does what on Linux.

Managing Virtual Infrastructures

Version 3.1 of the oVirt management platform for virtual infrastructures has recently become available. On Fedora 17, the new release is easy to install and deploy.

Linux with Windows 8

Microsoft is not known for its tireless commitment to Linux interoperability, but you can still get Windows to work with Linux – if you have the tools and know the tricks.

Building Virtual Images with BoxGrinder and VMBuilder

Creating a virtual machine manually is straightforward but too time consuming if you regularly need to set up many virtual machines. The BoxGrinder and VMBuilder programs let you automate this process.

Understanding Autodiscovery

A lack of information about your infrastructure can result in faulty system configuration and other difficulties. Automatic discovery of all hosts and services would seem to be the best solution – but can it also prove itself in practice?

Refurbished: Windows 2012 Active Directory

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 offers numerous improvements in Active Directory, as well as better and easier management.

Putting Windows 8 on a USB Drive

You don’t have to buy Windows 8 Enterprise Edition to create a Windows To Go USB drive, nor do you have to buy an expensive, certified USB disk to make it work.

Network Grep

Ngrep is a pattern-matching tool that sorts the wheat from the chaff and doubles as a lightweight packet sniffer.

Analyzing Kernel Crash Dumps

If the Linux server crashes, not only do you need to restore operations, you also need to analyze the problem. A kernel crash dump at the time of the crash can be a big help.

Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows Server 2012

In the old Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft, many features for professional use were missing. The new version 3.0 has been significantly improved and is slowly catching up to VMware.

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