Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category

Server 2008 R2

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

There is more and more talk now about Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-v R2. Windows 7 server will be called Windows Server 2008 R2 and has a wealthy list of new features as well as the next version of Hyper-V. first some of the new feaures in Hyper-V Processor support has grown ...

Small Business Server 2008 is now RTM

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

SBS 2008 both standard and premium are now released to manufacturing, and will be widely available by the 12th november launch date. SBS 2008 promises to be more powerful and secure, bringing new tools to manage domain names and data folders. It is also bringing in new single CALs making SBS licensing more flexable and cost-effective. improved ...

Fixing redirected My Docs permissions, using Powershell

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For many of our customers we redirect a user's My Documents to a directory of the same name, on a Windows share. For example, the user 'JMcMuffin' may have their My Docs redirected to "\\FILESERVER\Home\JMcMuffin\My Documents", which are stored in a local path of D:\Data\Users\JMcMuffin, on FILESERVER. Obviously you can ...

Windows 2008 Server DNS Cache Bug ?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

A few times now we've spotted what looks like a bug with the Windows 2008 Server's DNS Cache. Every few months clients don't get a response to DNS queries with the answer is already in the cache. Removing the entry from the DNS server cache does nothing but clearing the ...

Auto USB Drive Mounting

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

For some time now we've had an issue at some customers sites that their servers don't auto assign a drive letter to a USB drive when added. This is a bit of a pain as some customers use USB HDs for backups, so each time they change them we need ...