There is lots, and I mean 100s, of new features in Windows Server 2012, but without a doubt the one I'm really looking forward to deploying is Hyper-V Replica. http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2012/06/14/windows-server-2012-virtualization-hyper-v-replica.aspx {youtube}iFsG10PgoLI{/youtube}
We were configuring a Remote Desktop Server farm and needed to setup some group policies that only applied to computers that were Remote Desktop Servers. There are a couple of obvious ways you could acheive this. You could put your…
We were setting up a couple of servers with a Exchange DAG and Remote Desktop Gateway services and ran in to an issue where the Remote Desktop Gateway was looping on asking for credentials. A fair bit of searching eventually…
We had a client who's To-Do bar showed "The operation failed. An object could not be found" and their reminders would stop working. We could get it working again by deleting the Outlook Profile and re-creating it, but a couple…
This is a question that most IT people have debated time and time again over the years. I'm hoping we've definitevely got the answer now and it's not 1.5 times, 2 times or any other multiplication of memory, the value…
Focused IT are pleased to announce a new addition to the team. From 12 March 2012 Mervyn Last will be joining us – bringing with him over ten years of technology experience. Mervyn brings with him a wealth of experience,…
We were recently asked to take a fire damaged SBS Essentials 2011 running on a HP Proliant ML330 G6 and get it back up and running. As the server wasn't too high a spec we dragged out a half decent…
We like to wake our clients PCs up in the morning to ensure they get their updates and do any daily maintenance tasks before the client gets in. Download WOL.EXE from http://www.gammadyne.com/wol.exe to \ABRNTS01DriversWOLWOL.EXEFind out the PCs MAC addresses, using…
We support a lot of clients and need to get issues resolved quickly with as little fuss as possible, to achieve this we use lots of tools but one I couldn't live without is Remote Desktop Connection Manager, a free…
In a previous post entitled Keeping Adobe Flash Player up to date via Group Policy we detailed how to roll out Flash Player through Group Policy, well this needs a bit of tweaking post v11 being released. The new 32 bit version…