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FREE! Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 ebook
Stu just sent me this link .. go get it baby, it’s free http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Read More...
Posted: 30 October 2009 17:38 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Support changes coming July 2010 for Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003
Saw this email … Windows 2000 Server Extended Support for Windows 2000 Server will end on July 13, 2010. At this time, Windows 2000 Server will no longer be publicly supported.  You will be able to continue using "Self-Help Online Support"* Read More...
Posted: 21 September 2009 08:00 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Access Hidden Regional Themes in Windows 7
How funky is this! Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3476/access-international-themes-in-windows-7/ Basically, navigate to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and see the themes. I have 5, AU, CA, GB, US and ZA Read More...
Posted: 25 August 2009 07:59 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows 7
Go get it guys, it’s up on technet Windows 7 Enterprise (x64) - DVD (English) 2,976.62 (MB) Windows 7 Enterprise (x86) - DVD (English) 2,289.20 (MB) Windows 7 Home Basic (x86) - DVD (English)  2,385.99 (MB) Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) - DVD (English) Read More...
Posted: 06 August 2009 18:34 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Proposal to European Commission
So this is quite funny, in Europe we will get a version of Windows 7 that has no web browser!  Question, how do you get firefox if this ur only PC?  The only way I can see is, you use Windows Update, that will give you IE8, then you download Read More...
Posted: 27 July 2009 13:32 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
The wait is finally over ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Read More...
Posted: 23 July 2009 07:43 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Missing Disk Partition Tables on Windows 2003
This is interesting .. have seen this on a number virtual and physical windows 2003 servers, with NetApp or EMC storage. For some reason, external storage is goes missing after a reboot.  I does appear in disk management, but as an initialized disk.  Read More...
Posted: 10 July 2009 11:32 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008
Just a reference to my me as I have forgotten it too many times ;-) http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/07/01/installing-sql-server-2005-on-windows-server-2008.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201 If you want to install SQL bits, Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 15:32 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
oooooooooooohh Thanks Ari for the tip off ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f073285-b6ef-4297-85ce-f4463d06d6cb#tm Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 11:09 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Microsoft iSCSI Target Software available to the public!
Sweet.. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/05/14/9613924.aspx Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 is now available to all MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. A version for evaluation (TechNet Read More...
Posted: 15 May 2009 14:26 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows 2008 & Removing IIS
Every day is a school day .. if you remove IIS 7 from Windows Server 2008, it is never going back on properly. . . . EVER! You have to re-install the OS .. hopefully they will fix this in the next Service Pack or R2 Read More...
Posted: 08 May 2009 10:20 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 RC
This is now available for download for anyone on who has access to: TechNet Plus SA Media; TechNet Plus (Retail); TechNet Direct (Retail); TechNet Plus (VL); TechNet Plus Direct (VL); TechNet Cert Partner; TechNet Gold Cert Partner; T1; x64 is 3,119.30 Read More...
Posted: 30 April 2009 17:48 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows Vista SP2 RTM
Cant find the download just yet … Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/04/28/windows-vista-sp2-rtm-windows-vista-sp1-blocker-tool-removed.aspx Today we are announcing the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) Read More...
Posted: 30 April 2009 13:17 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Potential Windows 8 design?
WOW … http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/22/potential-windows-8-design.aspx Read More...
Posted: 23 April 2009 07:48 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Hyper-V, SCVMM and Windows 2008
this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch). As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of Read More...
Posted: 11 March 2009 08:11 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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mstsc
I must admit, I do like having multiple monitors to work with and found this the other day which is quite cool. If you run this: mstsc /span It will multi-mon your rdp session! Read More...
Posted: 24 February 2009 07:47 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Backing up Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
Yeah, yeah I know it's not supported and doesn't work out of the box, but hey just got it to work, and it was dead simple. Basically get hold of the 64bit versions of ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll, and vssapi.dll from a Windows 2003 server. Now create folder Read More...
Posted: 14 January 2009 11:30 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Exchange 2007 Server Builds
You know sometimes you need to like automate as much of an Exchange build as possible. Well I came across this the other day. This was a small hole that needed to be fixed in my build. So we know that we need a few additional components for Exchange before Read More...
Posted: 30 October 2008 08:58 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Windows Sysinternals updates
so 30th September saw some updates to some systinternals tools: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx Contig v1.55 There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful Read More...
Posted: 02 October 2008 09:18 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Sorry about that
small service outage lastnight / this morning .. .My server Blue Screened, rebooted and was waiting at the good olde Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screen. So cleared that and then my blog vm has the same so sorted that two. Found this blog, so the damm Read More...
Posted: 11 July 2008 09:28 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Task Manager: Connect / Remote Control
Sarad showed me this and I have been using it ever since. When we upgraded to Exchange 2007 to Service Pack 1, I RDPed to the server to perform the upgrade. I knew it would take an age on an SCC mailbox cluster, and I didn't want to wait around in the Read More...
Posted: 04 April 2008 12:53 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Hardcoding an AD Site
Paul sent me this so I could put an Exchange server in to a Lag AD site. It is very cool! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/55956.mspx?mfr=true Create the following reg key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters Read More...
Posted: 27 February 2008 13:28 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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What is the Page File for anyway?
Every day is a school day, and this make some light reading for a Monday Morning. Time to start up perfmon on my Exchange Mailbox Cluster Source: http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/12/14/what-is-the-page-file-for-anyway.aspx ... So, in simplistic Read More...
Posted: 17 December 2007 09:48 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Elonex eXentia & Vista Hotfixes
So Microsoft release two Vista hotfixes last week. An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979 An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Read More...
Posted: 12 August 2007 19:42 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Active Directory Explorer v1.0
Ohh this looks like a nice replacement for adsiedit Source: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/adexplorer.mspx Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer Read More...
Posted: 26 July 2007 12:45 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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