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Clear OS – Initial Thoughts

Spent a good part of my weekend building a box out of parts cobbled together in my garage for a ClearOS server. Thought I’d post some first thoughts on the process and why. What’s it for? I’d been thinking I needed a small business server for a while to help me manage some projects and […]

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Systems Administration

Remotely Killing Processes on Windows Networks

Time for a System’s Administrator trick that I’ve found to be extremely useful over the years. Sometimes you’ve got a program that’s stuck on a machine in an office many miles away and you just need to kill the process to fix the issue. If all your machines are connected, most of the time you […]

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Systems Administration

Remotely Listing Processes in A Windows Network

Managing processes and tasks on a Windows network remotely is a big part of Systems Administration. Some companies and organizations have these great Desktop Management tools and others don’t. Most of those tools though just use functionality that’s built into Windows and make it easier to work with. Sometimes there are situations where those tools […]