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How to shape size of SQL server resorces (RAM, CPU, and others)

It is standard story, there is fight between developers and administrators. One denunciation that database design and queries are bad while others says It is lack of hardware and amount of data. So I am asking You is my IBM x3400 with 2 xenons…
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Deploy multiple printers with group policy preferences with one policy

I am having trouble with deploying printers with GPP. I have 40 Printers that need to be deployed to different users. Only certain users need certain printers. I've got a GPO setup with user printer preferences and a list of 5 printers for testing.…
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What are the most useful "defaults"?

Mac OS X has a commandline tool called "defaults". It lets you set certain properties, for example: enable the "Debug" menu in Safari: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 What is the most useful "hidden" "defaults write ..." command…
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Keeping personal config files synchronised across multiple Ubuntu/SLES servers

I've recently started at a new job with a heterogenous server environment, i.e. about a 50/50 split between Windows and Linux (mostly Ubuntu, but a handful are SLES). My previous experience with *nix was about 5 years ago, so I've taken a little…
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Apt-Preferences doesn't accept package name

I have two repositories with one package "libtidy-dev": $ apt-cache policy libtidy-dev libtidy-dev: Installed: 20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1 Candidate: 1:5.2.0-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 Фиксатор пакета: 1:5.2.0-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 Version…
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gpo implementation windows server 2012r2

I am looking to Configuring Windows 7 Libraries using Group Policy Preferences "Disable Known Folders". gpupdate /force is completed successfully, therefore policy is not applied to client computer?? Any idea why?
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preferences.d for ununtu 14.04 not working, what do I do wrong?

I have repo declared here: cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list # Packages for Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop, Version 5, on Ubuntu 14.04 amd64 deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh5/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/cdh trusty-cdh5.3.3…
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How to Set Terminal Services User Preferences?

The server that hosts my terminal service is set to use dd/mm/yyyy and Pounds for currency. When I login as a user instead of getting the aforementioned settings I get mm/dd/yyyy and Dollars for currency; however, if I login as an administrator, the…
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Trac preferences only for authenticated users

After installing my Trac instance I removed the anonymous user since I don't want anonymous users to enter the system. However, when browsing to the Trac instance and failing to log in (authentication is handled by Apache using an htpasswd file),…
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Nginx valid referers with IP

valid_referers none domain.com; if ($invalid_referer) { return 403; } This code works perfect with domain name, I need to change domain with IP address, how this possible?
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Portable user-settings in Windows

I want know how I can avoid setting up all my preferences the same way, every single time I install a new operating system. Is there a way to export settings like: Background color Items to display, and how in Vista/Win7 Auto-hide…
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Locked Print Settings Preservation When Updating Driver

I have a set of Ricoh printers on a print server. When I want to deploy a new version of the driver, it erases the printing preferences of all users mapped to the queue share. Example, if someone uses locked printing and sets a pin with username as…
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GPO Enforcement

Newbie Jr SysAdmin here- I'm writing some GPOs and would like to have some new preferences applied, but allow the user to change them after the initial deployment. For example, I would like all the taskbar notification icons to display by default,…
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Debian 8 - Setup Preferences for installing php7.0

Please help setup preferences for installing php7.0 and relative packages (some of it not a stable release). I have OS Debian 8. I setup sources lists for packages in etc\apt\sources.list.d\: security.list deb http://security.debian.org/…
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Group policy printers not deploying - insufficient system resources

We have our Staff printers policy applied to our Staff users OU. This policy has ~60 printers deployed as Shared printers via Preferences. All bar 2 of these printers are item level-targeted to OUs or security groups containing computers. The…
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