Few days ago my colleague at work pointed me out that I had not created a follow-up to my article about site location which was requested by some users in comments on my Polish blog. When one started this whole blogging thing one has to deal with consequences … time to write something few simples … Continue reading "How to cover un-covered – the case of missing subnet"
Internet Explorer 8.0 Resources
Microsoft has released Windows Internet Explorer 8.0 to the web last Thursday. Besides improved reliability, security, performance and a handful of new features, Internet Explorer 8 introduces a new rendering engine, which is enabled by default. This new engine might break your mission-critical web based applications.
Disabling IPv6 on Windows 2008
I have run into nothing but trouble with IPv6. Not that there is anything in particular that is wrong, but not all apps understand and can work with it. For example I am running a geographically dispersed cluster on a Windows server with 2008 Exchange 2007 on a Dell 2950. I am getting these odd Event Log … Continue reading "Disabling IPv6 on Windows 2008"
Who needs another DC?
Active Directory as network service has (at least IMO) one great advantage (some problems can be pointed as well ) – relative simplicity of building service which will be fault tolerant service. With proper design and maintenance it takes some efforts to break AD as a service. It provides: multiple directory replica with multi-master replication … Continue reading "Who needs another DC?"
Reverse engineering attribute flows from server export
ILM (MIIS) allows management agent configuration to be exported in two ways: Management Agent export Server configuration export. Both options produces XML files, however in first case one will get single file which will contain only configuration for single MA. In second case series of XML files will be created, one for each MA and … Continue reading "Reverse engineering attribute flows from server export"
On a display …
Back in my high school days I used to play in a punk rock band (if we can call it band 🙂 ). A lot of fun and adventures, few local gigs. Everything ended-up when we started our studies on universities. But it is not my punk rock band which put my name on a … Continue reading "On a display …"
System Center VMM 2008 R2 Beta available
One of the most exciting new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to live migrate virtual machines between nodes of a Failover Cluster. In contrast to Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V this enables admins to failover virtual machines without noticeable downtime.
I’m a PC and an MVP
MVP "I'm a PC" Video Been there, done that 🙂
Me and TEC 2009 – update
Some time ago I wrote that I had been lucky to be selected as a speaker for upcoming TEC 2009 conference. Sometimes one have to change his plans and because of some latest development related to my work I had to cancel my TEC 2009 attendance in Vegas. I have to admit that I was … Continue reading "Me and TEC 2009 – update"
And you will keep your password updated …
Implementing effective password policy was always a hard task. Especially when additional accounts like: workstation local administrator account services account (look for W2008R2 new features) name whatever you want account … comes into equation and you have to make sure that all of them are in compliance with password policy of your company. Not always … Continue reading "And you will keep your password updated …"