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Yet Another Core Configurator

In the true spirit of Linux, it seems that everybody is re-inventing the wheel – because they can.  So, just as your favourite Linux distro had 9,999 different versions of the same basic calculator tool (but all written by different people), it seems Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:38 AM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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Kicking the tyres

Want to try out Windows Server 2008? Or perhaps Exchange Server 2007? You can download complete virtual machine environments for a whole list of Microsoft products, free of charge. Check out the Test Drive program here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 6:44 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008

I came across the following document the other day that contains plenty of useful tuning parameters and settings that you can tweak in order to improve performance in Windows Server 2008.  The nice thing is that each setting and its effect (or side-effect) Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 2:51 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Self-healing NTFS

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 contain an often overlooked feature called NTFS Self-Healing.  In a nutshell, it is basically an improvement to the NTFS system whereby Windows will detect a file system error and automatically fix it on-the-fly.  Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:29 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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HTAMount – Simplifying the mounting of Hyper-V VHD files to your computer

HTAMount is a HTML application that I wrote a while ago that provides a no-nonsense interface allowing you to mount/unmount offline Hyper-V virtual disk images (VHD) to your local file system, in read-only mode. It consists of a HTML Application (HTA) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:38 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): HTAMount v0.2.zip

Windows Vista, please can you stop changing the view of my folders without asking me?

Something that really bugs me with Windows Vista is that it ‘decides’ all by itself what view you want for your folders in Windows Explorer; and it seems to always get it wrong (as least for me anyway). As you can seen in the the picture below, I have Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 5:57 PM by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments
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Letting Hyper-V get some sleep

I blogged a few months ago about how activating Hyper-V on a laptop that is running Windows Server 2008 will disable all hibernation and sleep functionality. It seems that most people had not known this because I got quite a few comments on the post about Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 1:04 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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Closing time for the bar

If you run Outlook 2007 on a Windows Server 2008 machine, then you may have noticed that your Outlook persistently shows that little yellow bar saying "Click here to enable Instant Search".  Unfortunately, clicking on the bar does not enable Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:27 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Disconnecting Hyper-V

My work laptop runs Windows Server 2008 for one main reason, Hyper-V. I have a 64 bit CPU with 4 Gb of RAM installed, so it seemed the obvious choice to install it! Everything runs very well, especially my virtual machines which as an Infrastructure consultant Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:51 AM by Daniel Oxley | 14 Comments
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Server Unleashed - "more than meets the eye"

I stumbled across this website today (yes I know, I should have been aware of it since the launch but I've been busy). It is a Silverlight-animated launch site with loads of cool info and stuff about Windows Server 2008; someone in marketing definitely Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:38 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
 
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