Category Archives: Windows

Detect Hard Drive Failure in Windows using S.M.A.R.T.

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Hd_NSAIn this post I will write about some techniques that can be used in a Windows env. to check the hard disk health status using S.M.A.R.T. You can read about S.M.A.R.T. and other stuff in my post
Detect Hard Drive Failure in Linux using S.M.A.R.T. (see linkografia).

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and is a monitoring system for hard disk to detect the low-level indicators of the general health conditions of the device. Note that the raw values are calculated by the drive’s SMART logic internally.

Indeed “S.M.A.R.T Monitoring Tools” exists for windows: did you know ? Continue reading →

Create a Forest Level Trust between Windows 2008 ADC

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TrustIn this post I’ll show how to create trust between two different Forest each of these based on a single Windows 2008 ADC.

Briefly in Windows Active Directory any type trust allows users in one domain to access resources in another domain it can be either one-way or two-way. In a one-way trust, as the name itself it is one way and unidirectional, one domain’s users access another domain’s resources, not the other way around.

Differente in two-way trust: users in both domains may access the other domain’s resources. Continue reading →

Install PHP 5.3 on IIS 7 Windows 2008 SP2

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phpTShirtIn this post I’ll write about installation process of PHP 5.3 on Windows 2008 SP2 (not R2), with Sql Server support.
After some headcaches I’ve found that in Windows 2008 SP2 (NOT R2) it is possibile to install PHP 5.3 at most: with subsequent releases version the Sql Server driver for PHP won’t work in any way (missing depencies and other problems). Continue reading →