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  • Blog Post: Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Since there will be a good few folks running Windows 10 who subscribe to the RSS feed, I though it would worthwhile sharing a recent issue I had with my Windows 10 laptop. This is a Lenovo W530 with ample CPU, SSD and video card performance. It should run like a beast, but the recently the graphics performance...
    on 5 Nov 2014

  • Blog Post: Windows 10 Hyper-V Error 0x80070780 – File Cannot Be Accessed By The System

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Last week after showing a client some of new features in Windows 10, they went off and upgraded a laptop to the preview from Windows 8.1. Initially all seemed to go well. That is until they tried to start up VMs on their SSD drive. At that point Mr Sad & Grumpy came to visit. They were getting...
    on 20 Oct 2014

  • Blog Post: Doh! Windows Update Has Navigation Tabs

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Windows Update is a very important feature in the newer builds of the OS. If we think back to the NT 3.5/4.0 days the process to obtain updates was very different. Just to obtain a hotfix you needed to call in, provide credit card details and then obtain the update. How times have changed! And for the...
    on 24 Oct 2014

  • Blog Post: Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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...
    on 26 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: 9 Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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...
    on 20 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses For Server 2012 R2

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    As announced on the Windows Server blog last month, the team has released Windows Server 2012 R2 for General Availability. Download the Windows Server 2012 R2 evaluation or use our free Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Labs to test the product online without installation. Then, learn directly from Microsoft...
    on 25 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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 . Edit 28-8-2013: – A similar issue with the setting being removed is present in Windows Server 2012.  Article with workaround is here .   ...
    on 9 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card Fine Grained Control...
    on 27 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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...
    on 5 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
      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 .     ...
    on 31 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: “Slow” File Copy Issues

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
      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...
    on 25 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Windows Hyper-V 2012 & 8.1 Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine to Import

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Back in May 2013, we discussed an issue which caused the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. Well, as mentioned in that blog post there are a few reasons for this error message being displayed and it does depend on the versions of Hyper-V in use. There were some comments posted (thanks...
    on 22 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2...
    on 2 Dec 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows Service Log On As Inventory

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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...
    on 29 Feb 2012

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

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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...
    on 24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
      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 ...
    on 6 Jun 2012