Articles

Office Without Chains  

How can LibreOffice be used in a corporate environment and what difficulties have to be considered? In particular, you cannot underestimate acceptance by your employees.

Smart Collection  

Huginn collects information and data from websites and processes and mails it to a user. Huginn also executes predefined actions automatically for certain events; however, setting up the small IFTTT alternative requires some work.

Blueprint  

Application releases can take place several times a day. Terraform helps you roll out virtual machines automatically in your data center or in the cloud, and you adapt the manual only when it changes.

Passing Secrets  

Encrypting hard disk partitions during the installation of an operating system is standard procedure. When booting the computer, you then need to enter a matching passphrase to unlock the hard drive. We show you how to automate this process and link it to a policy.

Into the Blue  

Microsoft continues to integrate Windows Server with the Azure cloud. With Cloud Witness and the RDS Connection Broker, you can operate distributed environments more reliably and efficiently, and SQL databases migrate sensibly into the cloud.

Work Smart  

Want to keep your teams connected even when they are disconnected? RetroShare, SparkleShare, and I2P are free tools that support chat, data sharing, and other collaboration services.

Colorful Mix  

In Windows Server 2016, software-defined storage lets you combine several volumes to create a central storage pool; then, you can use a combination of HDD, SSD, and NVMe SSD storage media to divide the pool into different volumes.

Live Cell Therapy  

Red Hat continues to improve the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution.

The Fabricator  

Bug trackers are the least thing that can be deployed to combat chaos in daily IT work. The free Phabricator software provides this service and many others.

Small Steps  

Small businesses often do not need the full-blown version of Windows Server 2016. If the application scenarios are manageable, the cheaper Essentials version is the ideal solution; however, it does come with a number of restrictions.