So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here:
three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology?
Later this year TechNet and the Server [...]
One of the things that we spend a lot of time on is trying to keep track of what servers have enough free space. We have a lot of different tools to check drive space, and we even use some of them from time to time. We have a pretty complicated system created by Rickey [...]
As a follow up to my earlier post about the Remote server Administration Tools for the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), I thought I would post a link to the RTM version. It took a bit to find it. A search on Microsoft’s site wasn’t helpful to me. I finally found a reference on Ben’s [...]
We have been having issues at work for a while where a user gets “cannot load the locally stored profile” and a temporary profile is created. It gets to be quite frustrating for the users because each time they log in they lose any settings that they have made. Apparently, we arent’ the only company [...]
We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests. We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level. Most are backed up as regular clients. I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that [...]
Recently I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. One of the big pushes that is on the minds of everyone these days, is the Cloud Computing concept. As a Systems Engineer, the thought is that I should be afraid of this push, because it moves the processing out of the datacenter and into [...]
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 [...]
I use Windows Live Writer to create most of the posts for my Blog(s). I recently updated to the latest version and I do think it is a good product, and seems to work very well with my WordPress blogs. (I contribute to 3, but this is the main one.)
I have occasionally had trouble [...]
I was roaming around looking for an answer to a question (didn’t find the answer, and I don’t remember the question), when I happened upon a site that had a Cluster Map, like the one I use, and also something called a worldmap.
introducing worldmaps
See where your website visitors are from with WorldMaps. WorldMaps (currently in [...]
The best way to uninstall any program from Server Core, is to go into the registry to HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall . In there, you will see GUID for the various programs that are installed. If you select the GUID and look at the right had side you will see some good information:
One of the REG_EXPAND_SZ values on [...]
