Author: Michael

How to build cheap storage

 Patrick sent me this and I thought it was interesting: At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions,… Continue reading How to build cheap storage

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7

As a follow up to my earlier post about the Remote server Administration Tools for the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), I thought I would post a link to the RTM version.  It took a bit to find it.  A search on Microsoft’s site wasn’t helpful to me.  I finally found a reference on Ben’s… Continue reading Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7

Temporary Registry Profiles – Finally an answer

We have been having issues at work for a while where a user gets “cannot load the locally stored profile” and a temporary profile is created.  It gets to be quite frustrating for the users because each time they log in they lose any settings that they have made.  Apparently, we arent’ the only company… Continue reading Temporary Registry Profiles – Finally an answer

Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues

Previously, I blogged about issues I was having where old recovery points were not being expired/removed from my DPM servers.  I had to open a ticket with Microsoft, and worked with them to determine the cause, and since then, they have released a fix. The fix that Microsoft developed is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aee949aa-d3e7-4b0f-b718-00b7c20f1257&displayLang=en A few people… Continue reading Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues

Hyper-V and DPM – Some issues that you may see

We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests.  We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level.  Most are backed up as regular clients.  I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that… Continue reading Hyper-V and DPM – Some issues that you may see

Just my luck

I haven’t even had my iPhone a week and there is already a major security update: AppleInsider | Apple releases iPhone 3.0.1 software to fix SMS exploit Apple releases iPhone 3.0.1 software to fix SMS exploit By Slash Lane   Responding to a dangerous security exploit unveiled this week, Apple released an update to its… Continue reading Just my luck

My new iPhone…

I just purchased my first Apple product.  I bought an iPhone.  I have had a Blackberry for years, but the iPhone actually seems a little more cool.  I am not an iTunes user, and I don’t have an iPod, but I have to admit that I think the device is pretty neat. So, today when… Continue reading My new iPhone…

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

Admin tools for Windows 7 (RC).  Windows 7 rocks so far.  I just got to the point where I decided to install the admin tools though.  Installing Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC You must be either a member of the Administrators group on the computer on which you want to install the… Continue reading Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

Time Travel?

Evidently, Windows Server 2003, running on Hyper-V, is confused and thinks it must be time traveling.  Read below for the details… (Event ID 1054) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (An unexpected network error occurred.). Group Policy processing aborted. The customer explained to us that if he removes one of… Continue reading Time Travel?