My network attached storage – Early 2022

Introduction I have mentioned on many different occasions, that I run my own network attached storage devices at home. I do have quite a large amount of data and storing…

Ditching Microsoft Office

Introduction So over the years I have always live many been a devoted user of Microsoft Office. But recently the product is going in a direction that makes it an…

Time4VPS – A conclusive review

For many years now I have been a customer of many different VPS and hosting companies. I have experienced quite a few. But in the last decade. The entire ‘cloud’…

Exchange is dead!

Exchange to iRedMail. Following on from a previous post: Running a home email server in 2021 Introduction So as per some of the previous posts. I am a true believer…

Running a home email server in 2021

My Story Nowadays, it is unhurd of to be running your own email server, mainly due to the high demand for security and high availability. Also, services such as Microsoft…

Linux web server backup script

At home i have a custom setup debian web server. It runs Debian arm64. As it is a virtual machine on my Raspberry Pi running VMware ESXi. On this server…

Silent Install TightVNC

There are many reasons to need to silent install an application. The most relevant is for deploying across a corporate network. This method can be used on the following platforms:…

How to install Microsoft Exchange 2000

Small Business Server 2003 Deploy Applications

Following on from: Small Business Server 2003 – Setting up and joining PCs Small Business Server might be a small package containing standard Microsoft products. But it does include some…

My VMware to Proxmox experience

For almost the entirety of my professional IT career, it was quite obvious that VMware vSphere was the platform to be on. Sure Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V are very…