Get rid of that lumbering and noisy mechanical drive in your home theater PC (HTPC) and use an iSCSI disk instead to store your live recordings in Windows media center. My HTPC uses a tiny (60GB) SSD disk for the OS and applications and a 1TB iSCSI disk to record gobs of live TV. I […]
Read More →Finally … MCP
After 13 years of working IT I finally took a Microsoft cert exam. I took the 70-410 (installing and configuring windows server 2012) today and passed with 984/1000. I heard they are easy when they first come out, which I thought it was. So if you have a hankering go do it. I did this […]
Read More →Remove unwanted features in Windows Server 2012
Here is my horribly long powershell command to remove a bunch of unwanted features from Windows Server 2012. This saved 1.8GB of disk space. Why is under 2GB of disk space signifcant in today’s world? Well, without talking about SSDs multiply that by a 100 VHDs and you save 180GB. That’s significant on expensive SAN […]
Read More →The big list of Windows Features in Server 2012
In an effort to create a tiny sysprepped Windows 2012 VHD I wanted to uninstall all the roles I know I won’t be using. (And even if I do need them they are easy to put back.) Tiny VHD’s equal less disk space and much faster VM builds. First thing I wanted was a simple […]
Read More →System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager error (0x8033803b)
Getting this error when trying to refresh a host in system center 2012 virtual machine manager? Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server meh.local :a:DestinationUnreachable :The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors. . Unknown error (0x8033803b) Recommended […]
Read More →0x80072ee2 Windows Update “Operation Timed Out” error in Hyper-V virtual machine
Sometimes I like to stump my future self by making a random change along the way that will eventually cause problems. By stump I mean spitting mad. Trolling myself? Perhaps. Anyway I made some bonehead change in my virtual lab at some point that was allowing everything but Windows Update and Activation through on my […]
Read More →Windows Server 2012 VM on a 2008R2 host with dynamic memory
One of the great things about Hyper-V 2.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 is dynamic memory. It allows you to oversubscribe the host and plop more VMs down then the machine can physically handle. It then dynamically (hence the name) allocates memory based on demand from the virtual machines. What a great feature for a […]
Read More →My new desktop wallpaper
Finally found a wallpaper worthy of spanning two monitors. Here’s the original. http://i.imgur.com/FSv4Q.jpg
Read More →Server Upgrade
Yesterday I bought some RAM for my server to double it from 8GB to 16GB. RAM is dirt cheap, in fact 16GB was only $54 at the local Microcenter and I had a bad drive I needed to return for the same price. After swapping one type of memory for another I gleefully drove home […]
Read More →Switch your hard drive to AHCI mode in Windows 7 without repair/reinstall
If you are planning on switching over to an SSD or just want to take advantage of hot-swap SATA drives in Windows 7 you will need to make some simple registry changes first. This will allow you to boot off the drive after you have switched it from IDE to AHCI.Do this BEFORE you switch […]
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