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Linux and Windows 8 Interoperability

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.

Creating KVM machines 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.

Successful automatic service detection

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?

Better Active Directory with Windows Server 2012

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

Creating a Non-Certified Windows To Go 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.

Creating and Evaluating 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.

Using Expect Scripts to Automate Tasks

Expect is a unique scripting language that emulates keystrokes by responding to expected responses from a local or remote system. Think of Expect as an automated, virtual you.

Honeypots with sensors on production systems

A honeypot is a specialized security tool that pretends to be an ordinary system to attract and identify attackers. Experienced intruders, however, are not so easily fooled. An experimental new technology known as HoneypotMe moves honeypot functionality to real systems on the production network.