Where are my Exchange 2016 Performance Counters?
Monitoring Exchange servers is important because email is important, but it’s hard to do that when there aren’t any performance counters to reference. Let’s fix that.
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How I Build an Orion Server
UPDATE: There’s an updated version of this post now available for scripters. I’ve posted several times about how I personally build my SolarWinds Orion Servers. For this post, I’ll just discuss how I setup a Main Polling Engine on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
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Converting Linux VHD’s to VHDx
Virtual Hard Drives are the nuts and bolts of Virtualized Servers. This includes Linux Servers, but converting the hard drives provided some interesting findings. After reading a bunch of the Microsoft documents about running Hyper-V for performance, there’s a big push to move all machines From Generation 1 to Generation 2 and Hard Drives to…
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Creating a Windows Server Hard Drive “Template” for Hyper-V
This may not be the “official” way to create a template for Hyper-V according to Microsoft, but if you are running in an environment without SCCM or WDS (or on your personal machine), I’ve found that this process works very well. This is fairly simple list of tasks, but it’s very long. Thankfully, you’ll only…
