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How to Install and Configure BIND9 DNS Server on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure BIND9 DNS Server on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Install and Configure BIND9 DNS Server on FreeBSD 13 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 13 server operator. FreeBSD 13 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf […]

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How to Set Up Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 Zabbix is a mature, enterprise-grade open-source monitoring platform that provides agent-based and agentless monitoring with built-in alerting, trending, dashboards, and auto-discovery. The Zabbix Agent 2 provides active and passive check modes, native Windows performance counter collection, event log monitoring, process monitoring, and support for […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.339 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.209-160.339 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-039 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3347 CVE-2020-28374 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free memory flaw in the Fast Userspace Mutexes functionality allowing a local user to […]

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How to Configure DRBD for High-Availability Storage on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DRBD for High-Availability Storage on RHEL 8

DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) provides synchronous, block-level replication between two Linux servers, making it a foundational technology for high-availability storage clusters. Often described as “RAID 1 over the network,” DRBD mirrors every write to both nodes in real time, so either node can take over if the other fails. On RHEL 8, DRBD is […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Docker Daemon Fails Due to cgroup Issues

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 August 2021 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Group Policy Modelling — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Group Policy Modelling

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Group Policy Modelling Group Policy Modelling (also known as Resultant Set of Policy — Planning Mode) is a powerful analysis tool built into the Group Policy Management Console that predicts what Group Policy settings would apply to a user or computer given a specific set of conditions. Rather […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — kernel security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — kernel security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2020-3010)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 August 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-3010 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19807 CVE-2020-10757 CVE-2020-10766 CVE-2020-10767 CVE-2020-10768 CVE-2019-3016 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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How to Set Up Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is a free Microsoft solution that extends Windows Deployment Services to provide a fully automated, zero-touch operating system and application deployment framework. MDT uses task sequences — ordered lists of steps — to deploy Windows, install applications, apply […]

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How to Configure Just Enough Administration (JEA) on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Just Enough Administration (JEA) on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Just Enough Administration (JEA) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Just Enough Administration (JEA) is a PowerShell-based delegated administration framework that allows you to grant granular, role-based administrative access without giving users full Administrator privileges. With JEA, you can define exactly which PowerShell commands a user can run, what parameters they can pass, […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a suite of IEEE standards that enhance standard Ethernet to provide the reliability and traffic management required by converged data center networks. DCB enables multiple traffic types — including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, RDMA (RoCE), and standard Ethernet — to coexist […]

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