Items related to Windows in general
Since some of my test machines are a touch low on resources, having to wait for the server manager process to finish loading can be a little bit painful. On those machines a very pertinent question is: How can I disable Server Manager from auto starting?
There are group policy and local policy options to suppress this in addition to editing the registry.
There is always the option to disable it dire… Read the rest “How To Hide Server Manager At Logon”
One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”
As announced on the Windows Server blog last month, the team has released Windows Server 2012 R2 for General Availability. Download the Windows Server 2012 R2 evaluation or use our free Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Labs to test the product online without installation.
Then, learn directly from Microsoft's product experts with a series of new Windows Server 2012 R2 courses on Microsoft Virtual Acade… Read the rest “Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses For Server 2012 R2”
Back in May 2013, we discussed an issue which caused the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. Well, as mentioned in that blog post there are a few reasons for this error message being displayed and it does depend on the versions of Hyper-V in use.
There were some comments posted (thanks again for that by the way!) which mentioned an issue with importing VMs into Windows Server 201… Read the rest “Windows Hyper-V 2012 & 8.1 Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine to Import”
For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here:
You may have seen the previous articles, part one and two, where I’d blogged about controlling DNS registration for network interfaces with multiple IP addresses. For Exchange administrators this is a a concern because sometimes we have to create multiple web sites on a Client Access Server (CAS). This is typically done so that OWA can have different authentication flags (Forms, NTLM, Basic) or a… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Trois”
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Cheers,
Rhoderick
I’d previously mentioned the availability of Lenovo’s Windows 8 beta drivers.
There is now an updated ThinkVantage System Update tool which supports Windows 8 which is neat.
Updated my W510, so let’s see what new features this brings 
.
Cheers,
Rhoderick
Note: The follow-up can be found here: https://blog.rmilne.ca/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx
Clint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool.
This build contains both fixes and other welcome additional improvements to an ever growing list of templates which is always great to see!
For those who have n… Read the rest “Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released”
Introducing Windows Server 2012, by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for your free download!
This is one of the first books on Windows Server 2012 and provides a high level overview of the next generation of Windows!
You can download it here:
PDF Introducing Windows Server 2012 PDF ebook
EPUB Introducing Windows Server 2012 EPUB ebook
MOBI Introducing Windows Server 2012 MOBI ebook
Alternatively go to TechE… Read the rest “Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012”