by Admin | Apr 7, 2011 | Other, Windows |
Most of you have heard about the feature Windows 2008 R2 Server Core. It enables you to install a version of Windows with mush less foot-print and when you boot it, all you get is a command prompt: Now how in hell do you troubleshoot this one? Well, that’s the...
by Admin | Apr 4, 2011 | Windows |
In my article i described the Internet Explorer Security zones for sysadmins. One of the most useful troubleshooting steps when a web app was failing was to check which zone that site actually was in by checking the bottom of IE. Why? Because if you’re running...
by Admin | Apr 2, 2011 | Virtualization, Windows |
My lab consists of pretty basic hardware, but still, it’s interesting to see performance benefits using different solutions. So I decided to see if there were any performance differences between using 2008 R2 NFS and Starwind iSCSI as storage for VMs. So I had...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2011 | Windows |
Update 4th November 2012: Added and edited some. I’m a big fan of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) to RDP efficiently to all my servers. I wrote a little about it while it still was an “Microsoft internal only” app here. But what about the...
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 17, 2011 | Deployment, Windows |
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 does not present any major challenges in deployment. However, here’s a short guide to how-to deploy it using silent install switches: Downloading SP1 stand alone installer...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2011 | Virtualization, Windows |
I’ve added a couple of XenServer 5.6 FP1 to my lab which also includes some Hyper-V and ESXi. To get some shared storage, I installed a 2008 R2 machine and installed NFS to be able store VMs on it. Here’s how I did it. On the NFS-server, use Server Manager...
