Category: Windows
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Architecture Reference
I was lucky enough to pick one of these up in hard copy form at TechEd Australia 2012!! Very useful reference! Download the full copies from Microsoft here – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29189&ocid=aff-n-we-loc–ITPRO40886&WT.mc_id=aff-n-we-loc–ITPRO40886
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What’s New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
I recently attended TechEd 2012 on the Gold Coast, and was pretty spoilt for choice as to what technologies I wanted to learn more about. I have an infrastructure background, and recently completed the MCITP Virtualisation Administrator certification for Windows Server 2008 R2, so Hyper-V was still fresh in my mind and one of those…
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Windows 8 – to be or not to be?
Microsoft has a track record for releasing horrible operating systems every now and then, as witnessed by the IT world more recently with Windows Vista. It begs the question, after a very successful Windows 7, what is in store for Windows 8? Will it be king, or will it flop? My motivation for this article,…
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Lion-style Inverse Scrolling – On Windows XP
My home computer is a Mac, now running OSX Lion. I’ve become quite accustomed to the backwards/reversed scrolling which seems to be the default in Lion – and matches the “natural” swipe up/down gestures you would use on an iPhone or other touch screen device. Today I was looking around on my work Windows XP…
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MySQL 5.5.12 Config Wizard Bug
Installing JIRA on a Windows 2008 R2 x64 server today, and had to install MySQL for the database back end. Sounds simple enough… It’s been a while since I setup MySQL on a Windows installation, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the installation wizard pop up to ask me about the server and it’s…
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Better TCPViewer
I needed to show all the connections on a virus infected machine a while ago, and being a Microsoft tech, I normally used the Sysinternals TCPViewer tool to do this… However, TCPViewer is a bit limited. I mean, I’m trying to track all the connections on a given port, say, SMTP port 25, but I…
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Windows Event Logs to Syslog – Update
I came across this site earlier, seems to have a good amount of resources linked for anyone looking to implement Windows event log to syslog. http://www.loganalysis.org/windows-to-syslog/ There’s not much in terms of documentation, but it lists a number of tools which may help people in implementing this. Good luck! EDIT: Seems in linking to this,…
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Outlook 2010 + Social Networks
I thought this was super massive awesome cool plus plus!!!!!1111oneoneone I just installed the Office 2010 beta, and jumped in to my email quickly to grab a call. When I went to reply to an email, I noticed a little bar, similar to the “security” bar you get at the top of Internet Explorer, at…
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Server Recovery with Acronis
My boss forwarded me some emails from one of our client’s servers, dead disk, the usual. Get to the server, and it’s got nothing on the screen, typical… Reboot, no logical disks configured on the pov Promise RAID controller… Great. Luckily for us, we run Acronis TrueImage on this client’s servers, which practically does a…
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TeamViewer for Remote Support
We’ve been using TeamViewer here to remotely connect to clients for about 2 months now. To say we have been impressed is an understatement. The ease that we we can connect to a client’s machine and take over their session has enabled us to provide support services to clients we would otherwise had to have…