Category: IT-burstouts

  Here some quick test results from a recently purchased Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB. The used benchmark software was ATTO v2.47. The first test was run with a queue depth of 10 and total length of 2GB In the second test smaller queue depth of 2 and length of 128MB were chosen. The results… Continue reading Benchmark Samsung SSD 840 Pro

  Recently my server logged multiple ID 157 events texting "Disk # has been surprise removed". Check the disk number! If it is larger than the disks that you have (minus 1, since we start counting from 0), then it is safe to ignore it. Plausible check: You receive "Disk 2 has been surprise removed"… Continue reading Disk has been surprise removed

Despite the fact that Microsoft has given a green light to licensing Hyper-V under Server 2012 R2 Essentials, it is still a pain in the neck of getting it running smoothly. After a recent blog about installing ONLY the Hyper-V role here, I was confronted with another bug. The short story: Once a week our… Continue reading Essentials 2012 R2 Hyper-V Shuts Down Weekly

  Many blogs were written about this phenomenon but it took me three searches to really find the correct answer. Hopefully you landed here right by your first try 🙂 The symptoms: On the Server Manager Dashboard there is a ‘red service’ warning. The service listed is the Shell Hardware Detection service on one (or… Continue reading Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012

  Some of you may have worked in a regulated environment and know how important there an audit trace can be. Now, normally when you are using an enterprise level document sharing platform you expect the same to be true for it disregarding its implementation: in-house or in the cloud. Especially when this feature is… Continue reading SharePoint Online Content Viewing Missing

Dear reader, As is already far and wide known, since Windows 8, the new trendy way of backup and recovery of files is the so called "File History", which is, to put it crudely, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Time Machine. It breaks the present System Backup and Recovery in such a way that both cannot… Continue reading An open answer to Microsoft concerning the file history featurette

  As of generation Microsoft Server 2012 there is the option to back up your virtual machines using the GUI wizard. The strange thing though is that when I selected the VM (in this case PC02, see image below) the Hyper-V server insisted on (Backup Using Saved State). Now for what I was sure –… Continue reading Why Backup Using Saved State with Integration Services

As reported earlier a preview release of Server 2012 R2 Essentials was made available. Mostly all the ovations go for improvements like Hyper-V role, making it possible to virtualize the Essentials as a Domain Controller, as well as the enriched connector, as summarized by Paul Thurrott. I would like to bring to light some more… Continue reading Server 2012 R2 Essentials Goodies

As many sources have already reported, a new wave of betas, aka previews, of the Windows Blue Server generation, i.e. 2012 R2, are available for download as of 06/23/2013. The whole list of goodies can be found here: http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=15051 As this author, and MJF (http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-blue-previews-of-windows-server-sql-server-7000017242/) report, the downloads are available for MSDN and Technet subscribers.… Continue reading 2012 R2 Previews available for everyone

I just received an electric shock! If you are trying to sign in with your Live ID account to microsoftonline.com or microsoft.com (update: office365.com) sites you will not be able to do so!!! The occurrence is already listed here. Matter-of-factly if your Live ID has a google domain you will be advised to logon at… Continue reading Cannot login to microsoftonline