I have been interested in StorSimple for some time, but haven’t actually used it before. Recently, Microsoft announced a virtual appliance preview. It looks pretty interesting and I have a test scenario where I want to use it. If my testing goes well, I may expand my use of it. The documentation on it is… Continue reading StorSimple Virtual Appliance
Category: Beta
Don’t instal build 10547
I have been very happy with the Windows 10 builds. Most of them have at least been “no visible change” for me. Build 10547 however, was not like that. I had heard of some issues with that build from one of my co-workers, but nothing specific enough to not make think it was other than… Continue reading Don’t instal build 10547
Windows 8 Plans Leaked
So apparently, Windows 8 planning slides got leaked. A good discussion about what is contained in the slides can be found in this blog post: Long story short, these slide decks are chock full of internal thinking on Windows 8 — everything from customer target audiences to the Windows 8 developer market to the Windows… Continue reading Windows 8 Plans Leaked
Error installing DPM 2010 Beta
I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install. Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share. I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had… Continue reading Error installing DPM 2010 Beta
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)
Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution
If you see this: ‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Then this could be your answer: Symptoms and resolution: § You may be unable to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or… Continue reading Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution
New Features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
Of the new features coming in the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 and SCVMM, I think these two are the obvious winners: Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2. Live migration requires the source and destination host… Continue reading New Features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
System Center Service Manager
When I first heard that Microsoft was going to release a “Service Desk” product, I was actually kind of excited. I heard about it at MMS in 2006 (I think) and the things that they were planning for their Service Desk product sounded really useful and even a bit forward thinking. Evidently, what they intended… Continue reading System Center Service Manager
Windows Experience Index
In Windows Vista, Microsoft is making an effort to help you figure out where your weaknesses are when it comes to PC performance. The Windows Experience Index is an evaluation of key components of your system. When you want to know what to do to improve performace, you can take a look at it and… Continue reading Windows Experience Index
Windows 3.1??
I was looking around and found a blog entry that stipulates that Windows 3.1 is still alive. http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1022/picture13552.aspx Silliness prevails it seems.