I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install. Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share. I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had [...]
Admin tools for Windows 7 (RC). Windows 7 rocks so far. I just got to the point where I decided to install the admin tools though.
Installing Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC You must be either a member of the Administrators group on the computer on [...]
If you see this:
‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005).
Then this could be your answer:
Symptoms and resolution:
§ You may be unable to start or connect to [...]
Of the new features coming in the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 and SCVMM, I think these two are the obvious winners:
Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2. Live migration requires the source and destination host to [...]
When I first heard that Microsoft was going to release a “Service Desk” product, I was actually kind of excited. I heard about it at MMS in 2006 (I think) and the things that they were planning for their Service Desk product sounded really useful and even a bit forward thinking. Evidently, what they [...]
In Windows Vista, Microsoft is making an effort to help you figure out where your weaknesses are when it comes to PC performance. The Windows Experience Index is an evaluation of key components of your system. When you want to know what to do to improve performace, you can take a look at it and [...]
I was looking around and found a blog entry that stipulates that Windows 3.1 is still alive.
http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1022/picture13552.aspx
Silliness prevails it seems.
So I was looking through the Services and noticed a couple of interesting items. You probably have already seen this, but when I saw “ReadyBoost” I was a bit stumped as to what that could possibly be. I noticed there are a LOT of new services with Vista, and decided to look it up. (One [...]
I was looking around for something else, but came across this and thought it was useful:
http://vistaforums.com/Forum/Topic562-12-1.aspx
There are some interesting tweaks there.
I found an interesting article about Longhorn Server.
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_server_preview2_01.asp
