Last week on two separate Windows Server 2008 R2 servers on a clients site, both of them decided they would not correctly recognise the tape drives anymore. These servers had not been patched in a few months (due to the onsite IT Admin) and therefore there were a large number of patches installed. The problem showed up in Device Manager with the HP LTO Tape Drive … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Trend WFBS 7 Build 1417 released.
Trend last week (14th March), quietly and without fanfare released Build 1417 of the WFBS 7.0 product. You can download it here direct from them. Trend have not said much about this build, but I was given it in advance of release. What I found was a build that seemed far more stable and faster performing than I had previously with the WFBS 7.0 product. Good … [Read more...]
Hyper-V launch aborted due to auto-launch being disabled in the registry.
Over the weekend, I spent some time rejigging the disk structure in my R&D Hyper-V server. I used StorageCraft ShadowProtect to backup the entire server as part of a regular backup process. I installed all the new disks into the server and then proceeded to restore all the partitions. Because I was not moving it to new server hardware, I did not do a Hardware … [Read more...]
SharePoint Bootcamp – Aussie locations only
Local Aussie SharePoint Guru – Robert Crane is running some great training on SharePoint and what you can do with it for your customers. He’s got fixed dates already for Sydney and tentative dates for Melbourne and Brisbane. The session overviews look like it will be really worthwhile – check out his information and registration here. The costs is either $299 … [Read more...]
Happy St Patricks Day :-)
I think it’s wonderful that Ireland has decided to celebrate my birthday with me today – yippee – I’m another year older and wiser and more handsome… ok 2 out of 3 ain’t bad Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Now back to work! … [Read more...]