by sebmatthews | Apr 5, 2011 | Cloud, Microsoft
Most cloud and hosting companies (ourselves included) are keenly focused on system and datacentre availability and how this translates into a Service Level Agreement (or “SLA”) to customers. We throw SLA terminology around frequently, “99%...
by sebmatthews | Mar 3, 2011 | Cloud, Microsoft
Windows Server is Windows Server right? Well not any more! Windows Server is now a bona fide virtualisation platform now that Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 brings us a major enhancement to Hyper-V; Dynamic Memory. Dynamic Memory is one of the final pieces of...
by sebmatthews | Dec 10, 2010 | Top Tip
Just a quickie. I stumped myself today (I often do to be fair) when I was trying to snapshot a Hyper-V virtual machine prior to trying something potentially destructive (if I got it wrong) in Powershell for SharePoint. No option to snapshot the virtual machine was...
by sebmatthews | Oct 7, 2010 | Top Tip
If you install Windows Storage Server 2008 you will notice that it does not prompt you (like other Windows Server installers) for an Administrator password. It’s: wSS2008! (case sensitive and you need the exclamation mark (or pling if you are old school…)...
by sebmatthews | Oct 2, 2010 | Microsoft
I made a major boo-boo mistake, inadvertently marking a non-boot partition as Active on my primary development server making it un-bootable and with no recovery image (doh!) a simple error could have been a catastrophe. On a sidebar, this error is just another reason...
