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  • Blog Post: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Trois

    You may have seen the previous articles, part one and two , where I’d blogged about controlling DNS registration for network interfaces with multiple IP addresses. For Exchange administrators this is a a concern because sometimes we have to create multiple web sites on a Client Access Server (CAS...
  • Blog Post: 9 Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses

    Looking to ramp up on Windows 2012?    Look no further then!  Prepare for Windows Server 2012 with 9 free courses from @MSVirtualAcademy .  You can also follow the #MVA tag to be part of conversation around this offering.     Cheers, Rhoderick   Technorati Tags: Windows...
  • Blog Post: Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers

      I’d previously mentioned the availability of Lenovo’s Windows 8 beta drivers.    There  is now an updated ThinkVantage System Update tool which supports Windows 8 which is neat.       Updated my W510, so let’s see what new features this brings .     ...
  • Blog Post: Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released

    Note: The follow-up can be found here : http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx Clint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool . This build contains both fixes and...
  • Blog Post: Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012

      Introducing Windows Server 2012 , by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for your free download!  This is one of the first books on Windows Server 2012 and provides a high level overview of the next generation of Windows!             You can download it here: PDF ...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location

    On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory. I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal...
  • Blog Post: Windows Service Log On As Inventory

    At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example? They also wanted...
  • Blog Post: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card

    Edit: 24-1-2013 : A second article using PowerShell 3.0 is here Edit: 30-1-2013 – A third article is using advanced PowerShell 3.0 is here . The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the network card’s property sheet into DNS if the...
  • Blog Post: “Slow” File Copy Issues

      A recent performance issue case revolved around slow disk access times, and the impact that this had on Hyper-V and Windows in general. The customer had identified that one of their SAN units was dramatically out performing another one, even though the slower unit should have been orders of magnitude...
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