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Product, service, or learning material recommendations.
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Licensing, legal (lex legis), and circumventing security or policy
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Unix & Linux for general Unix/Linux usage
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edited Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14

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Server Fault is for System Administrators and Desktop Support Professionals needing expert answers on topics related to managing or maintaining computer systems in a professional capacity for their company or clients.

If your question is about…

Servers - hardware - Operating Systems, including linux windows-server-2008 freebsd solaris - Server Software, such as apache2 exchange-2010 sharepoint - Virtualization, including vmware-esxi hyper-v kvm xen
Enterprise storage Systems, including san fabrics and raid devices.
Business Workstations
- Desktop PC Operating Systems: windows-7 ubuntu
- Managing Desktop Applications/Software: sccm wsus zenworks
Network routing, switches, and firewall devices and administration
Operations, Maintenance, and Monitoring:
- backup and disaster-recovery
- Service monitoring
- scripting and automation

and it is not about…

Anything in a home setting. No exceptions.
Product, service, or learning material recommendations.
Career, salary, personnel, employment, or formal education
Licensing Licensing, legal (lex legis), and circumventing security or policy
Unauthorized hacking, password cracking, or system abuse and misuse

We have sister sites…

StackOverflow for Programming
SuperUser for general Networking, Hardware, and Technology
Unix & Linux for general Unix/Linux usage
DBA for Advanced Database topics
IT Security for Advanced Security (implementation, theory, white hat)

We also have…

… a list of the most common questions with links to the "best" answer we've identified.

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edited Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13

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Server Fault is for System Administrators and Desktop Support Professionals needing expert answers on topics related to managing or maintaining computer systems in a professional capacity for their company or clients.

If your question is about…

Servers - hardware - Operating Systems, including linux windows-server-2008 freebsd solaris - Server Software, such as apache2 exchange-2010 sharepoint - Virtualization, including vmware-esxi hyper-v kvm xen
Enterprise storage Systems, including san fabrics and raid devices.
Business Workstations
- Desktop PC Operating Systems: windows-7 ubuntu
- Managing Desktop Applications/Software: sccm wsus zenworks
Network routing, switches, and firewall devices and administration
Operations, Maintenance, and Monitoring:
- backup and disaster-recovery
- Service monitoring
- scripting and automation

and it is not about…

Anything in a home setting. No exceptions.
Product, service, or learning material recommendations.
Career, salary, personnel, employment, or formal education
Licensing, legal (lex legis), and circumventing security or policy
Unauthorized hacking, password cracking, or system abuse and misuse

We have sister sites…

StackOverflow for Programming
SuperUser for general Networking, Hardware, and Technology
Unix & Linux for general Unix/Linux usage
DBA for Advanced Database topics
IT Security for Advanced Security (implementation, theory, white hat)

We also have…

… a list of the most common questions with links to the "best" answer we've identified list of the most common questions with links to the "best" answer we've identified.

Notice removed Historical significance by sysadmin1138Mod

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Remove specificity in tag-lists. Less 'only these', more 'such as these', continue the 'tags-as-words' trend from the DBA FAQ.

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probably worthwhile to have this on there.. but I'm not terribly attached to it if anyone disagrees, and it lines up so nicely without it.. Thoughts?

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edited Jan 27, 2012 at 5:22

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Thinning out the cloud; Cleanup the other

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edited Jan 27, 2012 at 4:03

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consistent colons, caps fix

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edited Jan 25, 2012 at 16:42

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General cleanup and Rule of 5 Items in a List, people will not read a list with more than 5 items

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edited Jan 23, 2012 at 0:15

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Fix the Exchange tag

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Reworded the hacking line

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edited Jan 20, 2012 at 12:43

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Made "cracking" more general and put "Hacking" first as this is common usage now

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edited Jan 20, 2012 at 12:37

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Gramma Fail - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

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edited Jan 19, 2012 at 5:57

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formatting tweaks, link to stackexchange.com/sites for sister sites link, no caps to tags, correct a couple tags (we don't want blacklisted ones on here!)

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edited Jan 18, 2012 at 23:27

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edited Jan 18, 2012 at 23:24

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Scripting...

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Sister sites and BROKEN markdown

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