When validating memory and CPU changes when doing virtual designs you may need to limit the memory to test a plan before you implements. The following explain how to make these changes on physical Windows systems. In Windows 2003 R2 and earlier An undocumented /maxmem switch enables you to specify the maximum amount of random access… Read More: Restrict memory on Windows Servers »
How Virtual Design Master has influenced me… This is a boring non technical post I have been following the #virtaldesignmaster season 2 very closely. The compositors have been working very hard on their designs. Anthony Chow, Sean Massey, Bryon Schaller, Joel Gibson, Alex Ramiez, Tom Howarth, Timothy Patterson, Seth Forgosh, Daemon Behr, Geoff Wilmington,… Read More: Virtual Design Master and me »
Warning: Do Not remove .NET 4.5 in Windows 2012. We had a programmer that was working in setting up a website with asp.net. Settings were not working the way they suspected. They decided to remove .NET 4.5 from the Windows 2012 R2 Server. Mental question… When you remove .NET 4.5 what else will be… Read More: Do not remove .NET 4.5 in Windows 2012 »
You’re in the middle of an executive presentation, tooting your TCO horn about the money that has been saved by moving to the cloud/hosted, then you click the remote desktop connection you swear you minimized 10 seconds ago and… Why is this happening? Network connections into your hosting company travels through security and availability… Read More: Remote Desktop Connections Keep Alive »
Configure the Hosted Cache server The next step is to configure the host cache server, though you can implement Branchcache without this. In hosted cache mode we store the cache on a designated server in the branch office and clients can pick up cached content from here. On the server located in the branch office… Read More: Branchcache Server 2012, Part 2 »
Branchcache Server 2012 Install and Introduction Branchcache was introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 and it is a tool to reduce the impact of having low bandwidth between a branchoffice and a central file server. The short description would be that either a dedicated server, or the clients themselves, cache the content when a file is opened… Read More: Branchcache Server 2012, Part 1 »
Following steps are required to prepare your Windows 2003 forest or higher to accept Windows AD for an RODC. Make sure your forest functioning level is at least Windows 2003 or higher. Once that is done, insert the Windows OS disk into the server DVD drive. If you are using a vm server attach the… Read More: Windows 2012 R2 AD RODC Prep »
We were working on an un-install of software that is intergrated into Exchange. We un-install the software and the mailbox folders that we need had been moved. The only option we had was to restore the Exchange 2010 Mailbox. The first step is to find your backups. You need the following file extenstions: edb, log,… Read More: Restore an Exchange 2010 Mailbox »
A fully functional and activated 2012 Remote Desktop Session Host server has displayed the following message: This was a simple setup on a single server with the: connection broker, Session Host and Licensing server with 2012 CAL’s installed. Even though the licensing seems to be configured correctly, in server manager: and powershell: Licensing diagnostics: everywhere you… Read More: No remote Desktop Licence Server availability on RD Session Host… »
Have you ever had the problem with the c: drive that only has 30 gigabytes of total storage and now only 5 gigabytes are left and shrinking. You then start looking through the hard drive to remove files that are no longer needed. You come across the c:Windowswinsxs folder. 12 or more gigabytes in this… Read More: How to minimize the gigabytes of data in the winsxs… »