I recently needed to take my desktop PC and move it from it’s 2 x 160GB SATAs in a RAID 0 array over to 2 x 150GB SAS 15k Raptor Drives as I wanted to get as much performance out of the system as possible. Here is my old system performance index. I backed up using my Windows Home Server and then attempted to restore to the 2 x 150GB Drives. Unfortunately I forgot … [Read more...]
Upgrading to Office 2010
I’m working from home today and therefore decided it would be a good time to upgrade my laptop which has been running the final beta of Office 2010 to the RTM version that I can get from MSDN. I attempted an inplace upgrade, but was stopped as this is not be permitted. I then removed the beta and installed the RTM of Office 2010. I ran Outlook and it quite … [Read more...]
Cool new resource for techs from Microsoft
This week I found out about the Microsoft Desktop Player which is in beta at the moment. This tool can be downloaded here The idea is that Microsoft will make available loads of content easily searchable from your desktop. In addition to that however it will also allow the content such as webcasts, podcasts etc to be downloaded to your desktop for offline … [Read more...]
How to really flood your network…
I’m doing a fair bit of server migration work at the moment. As part of that I often need to copy over large amounts of file based data. To do that I’ve been using a tool called Robocopy which does a great job of it and allows me to script it to copy over a set of folders and then later run the script again to pickup any changed files. Robocopy has been with us for years now … [Read more...]
Free Wireless Network Analysis Tools
One of the great things about the community is the way we share information. At the recent SMB IT Professionals workshop here in Sydney, one of our members, Mark Wilton showed a few of us this really cool and FREE Wireless Network analyser tool. I used it today to look at a problem with a client site that had some very intermittent wireless drop outs to find there … [Read more...]