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Recently we had a client who diligently updated their 2012 R2 DC's to U1 as part of their normal patching cycle - and found afterwards that their 2003 servers were experiencing some "odd" behaviour. After having a look, sure enough, networking was fine, RPC was fine, all services were fine, but when trying to connect…
Continue readingwell, it was there yesterday... but you get the idea.
Continue readingLink to Bink article... - http://www.bink.nu/what’s-new-for-hyper-v-in-windows-sever-2012-r2 Some of the stuff in there looks pretty cool.... hopefully the release of VMM2012 R2 will follow this a bit quicker than it did for 2012 Hyper-V.
Continue readingA while back i wrote a post about data deduplication in 2012.... generally a very good feature, but as that specific post talked about, there was a collection of .iso and compressed data where not only did dedup not save me anything, it actually used up more space in the dedup folder than the orginal…
Continue readingSo now that 2012 has been out for a while... im starting to see a bit more detail on certains features... in this case file de-duplication. I applied file deduplication to a drive we use called our "SOE" drive, which contains all the MS products, pre-prepared packages for SCCM, VHD (and vhdx) libraries etc.... a…
Continue readingTitle says it all really.... no sign of win server 2012 as yet - but assume it will also be up "soon"....
Continue readinghttp://www.bink.nu/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone I've made the (fair) assumption that server will become available at the same time as the client. Im not convinced that many people (in the corporate space) actually care about Win 8.... part of that is because Win7 is a bloody good OS.... if Win-7-to-go existed... i think there would be even less interest…
Continue readingWindows 8 im a bit meh about - but server 2012.... thats a bit more exciting. http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/07/09/windows-server-2012-final-release-timing.aspx
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/09/20/storage-and-continuous-availability-enhancements-in-windows-server-8.aspx Quite frankly, that sounds like some cool shit... as always, devil will be in the detail - which Microsoft always tends to gloss over.... but it still sounds cool! We'll wait and see how cool it actually is when we hit beta/RC.
Continue readingI have had issues before with Dell servers and RSS Scaling with hyper-V, so that setting now just gets disabled by default on all broadcom's that we run into - but i started having a problem with packet loss on some other servers a few weeks ago... first up i assumed it was not with…
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