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GotoMyPC ? Concerns or OK?

A few users have taken it upon themselves to install this software on there work computers and use iphones/ipads to connect. Current setup is anyconnect / ciscovpn to connect and use remote desktop to work from home. The cisco web portal also has…
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Pros/Cons of switching from Exchange to GMail

We are a medium-large non-profit company, with around 1000 staff and volunteers, and have been using MS Exchange (currently 2003) for our mail system for years. I recently attended a Google conference where they were positing that "Cloud computing…
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Convert Windows Server 2016 Desktop Experience to Core

How can you convert a Desktop Experience edition of Windows Server 2016 to a Core edition? For previous insider builds you use the powershell uninstall-windowsfeature cmdlet to remove features such as server-gui-shell and server-gui-mgmt-infra to…
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SQL Server Trial Edition to Full Edition

I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 for the 180 day trial. We tested the system and it's working fine, and I wanted to convert it to full version. The problem is, I have a volume key licence to SQL Server, and the Microsoft support says that there is no…
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How much time left on Windows Server 2008 Evaluation

How can you get the server to tell you how much time is left on a Windows Server 2008 evaluation installation?
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Is it viable to run your own private Kubernetes-Cluster?

I am currently doing some research for my company concerning Kubernetes. We want to evaluate hosting our own Kubernetes-cluster from our bare-metal servers inside our private computing centre. I only ever worked with managed Kubernetes (like Google…
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Is it possible to upgrade using the Windows Server 2012 evaluation?

I've got a Windows Server 2008 Standard installation here that I'm trying to upgrade to Windows Server 2012 Server, using the evaluation version. (The scenario is essentially that I need to test the upgrade, and specifically the upgrade process,…
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Virtualisation current physical environment

We are planning to do a migration with our current physical environment to a new, virtualized SAN infrastructure. To keep it short, we want to migratie first our DC (3), Exchange (1) and file server. We also have a SAN (IBM DS4700 )for our SAP…
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Issue tracker requirements

I haven't done this for quite a while, but I'm actually going to go through the process of evaluating various issue trackers. Starting with these requirements: needs to be customizable (custom fields, custom workflows) email & web gateways metadata…
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Server 2016 eval to essential

currently I have the following running: Name: Windows(R), ServerStandardEval edition Description: Windows(R) Operating System, TIMEBASED_EVAL channel Product Key Channel: Retail:TB:Eval and bought a Windows Server 2016 Essentials key. However,…
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Can't get Server 2012 Evaluation download to install

I have downloaded both server standard and essentials and put the Iso onto a USB stick and tried to install them on a virgin server with clean drives which are formatted. The USB boots and starts the install and then comes up looking a license…
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Running multiple evaluation instances of SQL Server 2008

I'm playing around with sql 2008 server. I have already installed an enterprise evaluation instance and i added another one. Installation runs fine, but i cannot connect to the second instance. Server is running for both instances. Is that a…
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Does SQL licence expire for a single instance?

I have two instances of SQL server namely Adventure and instance 2. Now I cannot start SQL server from services for Adventure but the instance2 is fine. Once i go through the log file it showed SQL evaluation is expired. Does SQL licence expire…
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Web Analytics Services - Do you have any experience with Piwik?

As the question suggests, I'm looking at installing Piwik to monitor my sites. Currently I'm using Clicky, which works well but I'm reluctant to upgrade to the paid version. Does anyone have any experience or advice about this application?
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How do I interpret this Load Test result?

We used BlazeMeter to evaluate our site's capability to handle load. I set up a simple script that logs in (using a special page which ensures each load test user has a different account), visits several pages along a common route, and ends with…
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