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10 November 2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI
And while on the subject of official Virtual Server 2005 R2 information starting to becoming public , we now support iSCSI for VHD storage and clustering shared storage. Typically iSCSI can be a far cheaper alternative to fibre channel attached storage, Read More...
29 June 2005
Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)
Update: 4th Nov - See updated and improved script here As part of my backup for Exchange I was playing with at the weekend, I ended up writing a pretty simple script to run as a scheduled task. Although my Exchange environment is simple as well, the requirements Read More...
21 June 2005
Don't be flamed - use the Image Resizer Powertoy
Continuing the theme of digital imagery and photography , I happened to notice an email go through on an internal discussion group today which had something like 4MB of attachments in the form of photos. As you can probably imaging, the sender was somewhat Read More...
21 June 2005
File Server Migration Toolkit
Virtualisation for migration and consolidation isn't always the best answer. I'm not saying it isn't appropriate always, but there are alternatives. One great example which I was asked by a customer last week about was for migrating and consolidating Read More...
14 March 2005
limitlogon - new download to stop concurrent active directory logons.
My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets this morning. I was discussing this very problem with some colleagues only a couple of weeks ago and pretty much concluded that this is a very difficult problem to solve easily . Low and behold though, into my Read More...
02 February 2005
How-to use MakeCert for trusted root certification authority and SSL certificate issuance
I wasn't originally going to blog this, but my colleague, Mat , and I were discussing encryption late last night. Mat was specifically interested in its use for security traffic in the context of SQL Reporting Service, but we got massively sidetracked Read More...
24 January 2005
Blogcast how-to: Recorder Settings for Windows Media Encoder
Numerous people have asked me what exact settings I used to recently record the series of VSMT blogcasts . The software I used to record the demonstrations was Windows Media Encoder , which is freely downloadable on Microsoft.com. (Note that this also Read More...
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