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New Rig Rev 2.0
In an earlier post here, I provided the specs to my new system that I built during my 1 week sebatical before starting my new job.Well, in just over a month, I've already upgraded. "I ordered two...
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The Attack of the FAT 32 Partition
I just picked up a 500 GB USB 2.0 external drive to handle the back ups for my domain controller, application and database server that I run in my SOHO network which runs on a Windows 2003 AD domain (I...
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Renaming SQL Server 2005
When using VPC, it is common to clone machines and rename servers, which can pose a problem for platforms such as BizTalk Server which are configured to connect to a given machine name at...
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Windows Server 2008 Update
OK. Honeymoon is over. I have been experiencing some degradation in performance/responsiveness recently, so started looking for optimizations which have had a positive result.Here is what I have...
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Merging Differencing Disks with Hyper-V
A differencing disk is a disk that is a child of a parent disk. Differencing disks are very helpful in keeping disk images small, manageable and consistent, because you can create a base parent disk-...
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Hyper-V Internal Virtual Network- The New Loopback
In Virtual PC and Virtual Server, one way to build a private network of VMs was to create a loopack adapter using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter. This allowed you to specify an internal IP address...
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Hyper-V Parent Partition Filesytem Access Not Working?
With Hyper-v, if you want to access the parent partition (host) file system, or attached USB drives, the only way to do so is through a UNC or IP connection from the child partition (guest) to the...
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Websphere on Windows Outperforms Websphere on AIX by 37%, Who Knew?
In a conference call with Steven Martin yesterday, the head of the products division that includes .NET, Azure, IIS, ASP.NET, Dublin and Oslo shared some very impressive news.Led by Greg Leake, a team...
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