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After I got done posting this morning about how much I loved the free VMWare ESXi, I received a few emails pointing me to the license restrictions that you agree to when installing it. Here is the fun part: 3.9 Audit Rights. You will maintain accurate records as to your use of the Software as […]
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Like I said in my last post I was going to give ESXi a spin. VMWare just made it free. It is their response to Hyper-V from Microsoft. I have already setup a Hyper-V 2008 box here…it took me forever to get the thing to work under Server Core 2008. Even with all that work […]
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It is getting late, but I thought I would post this quick one for you…VMWare is now giving away ESXi for free. If you never have used it before, it is a version of VMWare that runs as its own operating system…and under 32MB of ram! (This is really simplistic by I think you know […]
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Now that Vista is starting to permeate the enterprise…I have started to get quite a few questions like this: Steve, we just replaced 10 machines, and they all are running Vista. We have a ‘one time’ script that we need to roll out that requires administrative access. Every time we run it, it fails, and […]
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SanDisk said on Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for flash drives – delaying delivery of optimized drives until next year. Specifically the CEO said at a second quarter earnings conference “As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not […]
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There has been a story starting to brew about a serious DNS security flaw. The details of the flaw have finally been leaked here: Information Week Article This is one of those problems that is easy to ignore, but could become a huge nightmare if left unchecked. Essentially the flaw allows an attacker to redirect […]
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Like me, I know many of you are probably starting to take a look at Windows 2008 for your environment…so this might be of use to you. I came across a detailed performance tuning guide that Microsoft released back in June. What does it cover? Here is a list of the performance tuning sections within […]
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I have been playing around with the SystemInfo command in windows, and I wanted a concise way to see what the uptime of my system was. It is actually very simple. Get a command line, and type: It will go through some calculations, and finally come back: This is a very simple way to see […]
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I have been toying around with different configurations here using the free VMWare server package. I decided I would take another look at the Microsoft VM solution (Now known as Hyper-V) In the past I have been underwhelmed by the truly abysmal state of Microsoft’s Virtual Machine server software. Last time I tried it out […]
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Well, we were able to release a beta last Friday, and the response so far has been great. If you are not on the list yet, we have a private blog and website you can be a part of if you send an email to support@intelliadmin.com with ‘Beta’ in the subject line. We are shooting […]
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