Rick Vanover is an IT Infrastructure Manager for Alliance Data in Columbus, Ohio. Rick's IT certifications include VMware VCP, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 MCITP, Windows Server 2003 MCSA and others.
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Previous experiences included working for Dematic Corp (formerly Siemens L&A, Siemens Dematic, Rapistan)in Grand Rapids, MI in various capacities deploying custom software solutions to the material handling industry using a mix of current hardware and software products. You can reach Rick at b4real@usa.net. Follow rick on Twitter at @RickVanover
Antivirus for standalone servers is now available through a new Microsoft application suite. Rick Vanover kicks the tires of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010.
Shared storage is the saving grace of vSphere virtualization. In this gallery, virtualization expert Rick Vanover shows you how to add an ESXi host to an iSCSI storage target.
Windows Small Business Server 2011 is an easy installation and familiar for Windows administrators. IT pro Rick Vanover walks through the configuration of the new version.
Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source.
Learn how to set time zone information for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 via Group Policy and the tzutil utility or by adding it to an existing GPO object.
IT pro Rick Vanover shows you the steps to download a specialized version of Android and set up a virtual machine that you can use to explore the Android OS.
IT ninja Rick Vanover shows you how to install FreeNAS as a virtual machine and provision it as a Windows file resource using the common internet file system (CIFS) storage protocol.
Maintaining command-line finesse is an important objective for Windows Server administrators. Rick Vanover offers some pointers on using the netstat command.
It may seem odd, but every now and then we may need to have a floppy drive connected to a virtual machine. IT pro Rick Vanover shows you how to create a floppy image for VMware virtual machines.
For Windows administrators, a common practice is to have a local username and password for administration when cached credentials are not available. Learn how to change an existing configuration.
Virtualization pro Rick Vanover walks you through the process of creating a virtual machine in VMware vSphere and utilizing all of the new features that are available.
