I was looking into a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster the other day. I do like clusters, especially Microsoft ones. This particular cluster had experienced an incident and through a combination of factors and follow up actions had been left in a state where the cluster service was failing due to configuration errors. This quote […]
I like comically verbose debug outputs. I tend to produce a lot of information in debug logs attached to applications that I write. Rarely does anyone else see the logs, but as the whole purpose of the debug logs is to track down and fix faults, the more information the better. I found a very […]
One of the code posts I created a few weeks ago referenced one of the utility logging functions that I have created for use in my applications/tools. It has certainly made my life a lot easier and I have several derivations of it for various situations. This function is called in much the same […]
Awesome. If you’ve been reading the IT News, you’d see Microsoft released a new RDP client for OS X and IOS on the 18th of October. I started experimenting with the IOS version on the day it came out and was very impressed with the client. I’ve since found time to install the OS X […]
In the last post we examined how to programatically control DNS dynamic registration on DNS clients. Now we’re going to examine the same problem, but on the DNS server itself. The DNS registration configuration for the DNS server can be misleading, which is why this quote is particularly pleasing. Let’s recap. When you don’t have […]
I had someone ask me the other day about an issue they were having with regards to multi-homed Windows servers and the Microsoft DNS Server product with dynamic registration enabled. I created a VBScript file to address the issue, which I’ll explain in this post. As for the quote in the title, this quote I […]
Ever since upgrading my home server from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2, I’ve been unable to RDP to it from my Mac OS X laptop. I use the Microsoft RDP client that comes with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. There are other alternatives around that may be better – I’ve heard CoRD […]
Again with the Star Wars quotes. I was trying to find a quote related to SNMP, but sadly George Lucas didn’t include SNMP concepts in any of the movies. I thought about going with ‘You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy’. Given my experience over the years with the vagaries […]
I love Hyper-V. It’s awesome. Mind you I also love vSphere. To be honest, I think I just love virtualisation. Clearly I still love Star Wars. I thought the above quote was particularly fitting given the symptoms requiring Hyper-V permissions to be restored occur generally after somebody has just wiped the existing permissions out. All […]
I love Lord of the Rings quotes… and Star Wars quotes… and The Big Bang Theory quotes. Whilst I do like this particular quote, it did make me think about all of the help I’ve received from my good friend the Internet over the last many years. I decided it was time to finally start […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 