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Oct 10 Fri
Fix For Large Framework.log Files
Jeff Guillet writes "
...The WMI service maintains text log files for all operating systems earlier than Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...Most of these log files are configured to automatically wrap every 64KB. When the log file reaches this limit, it is renamed to logfile.lo_ and a new log file is created. Unfortunately, this does not happen with the Framework.log file - it will continue to grow indefinitely..."
Oct 9 Thu
Dancing Windows 7? At the PDC?
Eileen Brown writes "I’ve just seen the viral video advertising Windows 7 and the PDC this year. We do seem to be getting a bit of a name for videos that make you talk… cringe… react…"
Oct 6 Mon
Moving the ServicePackFiles directory in Windows Server 2003
Joris Poelmans writes "...if you look in the c:\Windows directory you will notice a directory ServicePackFiles. Instead of deleting it, you can also move it to another disk - if you do this you will also need to update the registry - go to...and change the pointers to a new location."
Buy IIS7 and Windows 2008 Here
Bill Staples writes "If you are looking for the lowest cost, fully-featured Web server for the internet, look no further than Windows Web Server 2008, which is the enhanced version of Windows server specifically built for internet Web sites. It supports the full hardware specs of Standard Server...compare it to other Windows 2008 editions,"
Oct 3 Fri
How to Rebuild Essentials Server Without Losing WSUS Settings
System Center Forum writes "Uninstalling SCE 2007 will also uninstall the WSUS 3.0 instance that is installed with it. However, you can choose to retain the updates when running uninstall wizard. As for your WSUS configuration, you can export the configuration to an xml file.."
Oct 1 Wed
Description List of All Scripts Updated in MDT 2008 Update 1
Michael Niehaus writes "Here's the quick summary listing all the scripts that were modified in MDT 2008 Update 1 and a very brief description of the changes made to each:.."
Sep 28 Sun
Server Core - Not Built for Comfort
James ONeill writes "Core is not for everyone. If you have a battery of file servers then the most optimized way to run them is on core, with file serving as the only role. Serving static Web pages ? Best optimization is to run a farm of web servers on core. Consolidating 10 racks of servers down to one rack with Hyper-V ? Core could be for you."
PowerShell: WhileTimeout
Hal Rottenberg writes "This script is a generic wrapper for the While statement that will execute a condition a given number of max tries, waiting a given number of seconds in between."
Sep 27 Sat
Backing Up Remote Eventlogs Using WMIC
Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen writes "I had to collect eventlogs from all the computers involved....Wasn't there some method call in WMI, that could do the job?"
Sep 23 Tue
Win7 to Replace Applets With Services
Mary Jo Foley writes "Windows 7’s mail, photo-management and movie-maker subsystems applets are all being replaced by optionally installable Windows Live equivalents. This is good news for users, as services are easier to update more frequently than software. It’s also good news for Microsoft, a company that has come under increasing attack..."
Sep 17 Wed
Trick Zune 3.0 to Install on Server 2008
Aaron Tiensivu writes "The new Zune 3.0 setup program will complain with "Can't install - Zune doesn't support your current operating system." ...You can however, 'shortcircuit' the install..."
Sep 12 Fri
How the User Load is Adjusted During a Goal Based Load Pattern
Bill Barnett writes "...if there is a warm-up period specified, the goal based pattern does not apply during the warmup period. Instead, the load test creates a temporary step load pattern that is used during the warm-up period to increase the user load until it reaches the Inital User Count setting in the goal based load pattern's properties...Here's what happens..."
Sep 11 Thu
How to Install FTP Server on Windows Home Server
Philip Churchill writes "
...a tutorial of installing the server version of FileZilla, a free FTP solution onto our Windows Home Server’s, which can be seen here with step by step instructions."
Useful Tool - Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator
Justin Zarb writes "This Tool is a collection of scripts which will help provision and configure a Base Windows 2008 Server Core installation, The Server Core Configurator enables you to do all those 'little jobs' via a GUI, quickly and easily...give it a try..."
Microsoft Surface Toolkit Offers Insights into Windows 7
Mary Jo Foley writes "While both the Surface and Windows 7 (as well as Windows Mobile 7) are all going to be Microsoft multi-touch showcases, I never really connected the dots between the work being done by the Surface team and the Windows 7 team. But given the initial Surface prototype systems were built on top of Windows Vista, it makes sense the next generation Surfaces will run on..."
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