Category: IT-burstouts

Once again our beloved Microsoft Company took care of us sysadmins to not get bored around Christmas. If you have tried to run the Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) recently you could have noticed that it simply stopped working with the nasty error pop-up: "The License has expired" Note the capital letter L! Not… Continue reading AD Replication Status Tool killed

Recently a LinkedIn group "LIMS Forum" manager opened an interesting discussion called "How IT will be blown to bits. Will this provide new opportunities for science?" which was based on other articles allegedly predicting the trends of cloud service, big data, mobility and such. The links listed there were the following: InfoWorld article about the… Continue reading How IT will be blown to bits

The Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 is available for download as of July 24, 2012 and I would like to recommend the lectures to any system administrator with above the average devotion. The currently 150 pages long document includes topics for storage, networking and hardware/power, but also shines with server role based chapters… Continue reading Windows Server 2012 Performance

Ho, ho, ho! X-mas is here and Hogfather has left a nifty present before my fireplace. The Synology DS212J is a new sibling in the family and comes to replace a DS211J, the latter shining with its speed-to-price ratio, offering SMB/CIFS read/write at almost 50MB/s for less than $120. Now the new generation is supporting… Continue reading DS212J Performance on RAID-1

  Introduction Although there are multiple threads about this subject and I even posted a description of this phenomenon on technet there is still no action from MS developers and I don’t believe it is ever going to be resolved. So I’d just list some of the online proposals here. Screenshots and how-tos are on… Continue reading Send as options and proxy addresses in Exchange – yet another blog

  So as an experienced IT Pro you are quite confident: the management terminated an employee, you disabled her account and there is no way she could tamper her Mailbox. Sure? Think twice about it. Or rather read twice about it? Here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2612821 And here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-best-practices-for-untrusted-mailbox-users.aspx And now an example of a real life situation:… Continue reading Account disable or password change not enough for email sync termination

  The recently announced Windows Server 8 brings various enhancements and new features. In fact their number is so large, it probably outshines the AD improvements of Server 2000, the storage improvements (DFS and Storage Management) from 2003 R2 and the probably even the improvements from the 2008-generation (Hyper-V, Branch-Office, Direct Access, NAP, etc.) In… Continue reading Windows Server 8 Storage Enhancements

(Or when the baklava hits the fan)   It was so annoying obvious, so daylight clear, that I’m rather surprised to see thousands of doubtful conversational guesses: What’ll be the big news in Cupertino’s Camp? Well obviously enough it will be iPhone 5, but the quarrels and bets about the underlying new technology start from… Continue reading Let’s talk iPhone

In our first part we discussed the installation of Windows 8 on a desktop hardware. In this second part we will touch some aspects of the desktop user experience. Still keep in mind, that since the installation was using standard hardware with no touch-screen capabilities, we will not be observing the Metro style, multi touch… Continue reading Windows 8 Developer Preview from Sysadmin perspective – Part 2 (Desktop)

Recently Microsoft published online a Developer Preview edition from Windows 8 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516. On this site you can download 64-bit and 32-bit installation media ISO files as well as 64-bit edition with developer tools. All versions are for x86 processors only – there is still no build for ARM processors I am aware of, that is… Continue reading Windows 8 Developer Preview from Sysadmin perspective – Part 1 (Installation)