Microsoft have now officially released SP1 for Win7 and 2008 R2 to the public. A lot of companies i have worked with previously normally wait till the first service pack is released of a product before they decide to roll it out. SP1 includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements include: Dynamic Memory …
IE9 Release Candidate Product Guide
Microsoft have released a product guide for the recently released IE9. The guide explores the new features of IE9 for develops, users and IT Pro’s. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d4a95d6a-5995-4078-a5cf-81fb207084bc
Hyper-V Component Architecture poster updated
Microsoft have updated their Hyper-V Component Architecture poster to include the changes in the recently RTM’d SP1. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=93c814d0-fe4b-4d5b-b280-1b9807ec9933&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm Description: “This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and …
Configuration Manager cannot be initialized when installing Citrix Access Management Console
Whilst recently performing a XenApp 5.0 installation on a brand new build of Server 2008 SP2 64-bit. Every time i tried to install the Access Management Console i received the following error: Citrix Installation The configuration manager cannot be initialized. I did not understand why i was getting this error as i had installed all …
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SCOM 2007 R2 Installation
In this article i am going to cover the installation of SCOM 2007 R2. For the installation i am installing it on Windows Server 2003 R2. I have already gone ahead and installed SQL 2005 SP3 onto the server since I am installing everything onto one server. In a real deployment scenario if you monitoring …
Information Overload
In the world we live in today, technology is rapidly changing. To me it seems like about every 2 years you have to learn new technologies just to keep up and in the know. As an independent IT Contractor i constantly feel the need to update my skills in the latest technologies that i can …
VCAP-DCA Study Guide
Sean Crookston, an IT Consultant has released an absolutely brilliant study guide for those looking to study got VMWARE’s VCAP-DCA. You can view and download it from here: http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca/ http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca-studyguide-ver3.pdf
How to move a WSS 3.0 Sharepoint Database
If you install WSS 3.0 and you install the default SQL Server Express edition you do not get an option to install the database to a specific location. By default the database is installed in C:\Windows\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\Data. If you have it installed on server hardware with drives configured for best performance and redundancy i.e. RAID 1 …
Performance Tuning Windows Server 2008 R2
Tim Newton from the performance team at Microsoft has written 2 really good articles on how to monitor and tune performance on Windows Server 2008 R2. He goes into counters, CPU, memory, pagefiles etc etc. Definitely worth a read http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/08/06/performance-tuning-windows-server-2008-r2-pt-1.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/11/05/performance-tuning-windows-server-2008-r2-pt-2.aspx