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As part of my day job I work a lot with virtualisation , the vast uptake in this in recent years has opened up wonders to IT infrastructures and as it advances it brings along new areas such as software Continue reading Building a VMware ESXi Whitebox
In previous versions of Windows from Windows Vista up to 8.1 upgrading to the Enterprise SKU of the product required you to actually have the install media for this edition. In the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Enterprise is still offered Continue reading Windows 10 Build 9226: Upgrade from Pro to Enterprise directly
As you will know from my previous blog post, Windows 10 Build 9879 isn’t free of various bugs, especially when it comes to hardware and that’s to be expected given that the various builds being seeded out to the insiders Continue reading Windows 10 Build 9879: Fix black screen after boot on Surface Pro 2
On Wednesday of this week Microsoft provided another Windows 10 Technical Preview Build to the Windows Insider program via the “Fast” channel. As am I currently testing these preview builds as my sole OS on my daily machines (I like to Continue reading Windows 10 Build 9879: NVIDIA Driver Issues on Intel X79/X99 Platforms
Some of you will know after reading this post back in September, I recently decided to put together a new system build to replace my then aging X58 rig. Sadly due to other commitments I didn’t get a chance to create Continue reading New Upcomming PC Build – Continued
When I started taking an interest in the world of computing the first thing I got involved in was building and troubleshooting PCs, in fact my first custom PC build was based around a 600MHz Intel Pentium III CPU and Continue reading New Upcoming PC Build
Active Directory as we know it is generally still the foundation stone of any medium business to large enterprise when it comes to providing access to things such as services, resources and a more importantly, security. Although the technology is Continue reading Modern day Active Directory Best Practices
For those out there who administer corporate IT environments, you have all probably heard of Windows Deployment Services, and possibly use it too for carrying out OS image deployment over the network. The only downside to this tool is that Continue reading Add the WDS Management Console to Windows 7/Windows 8/8.1
This month Microsoft released it’s regular set of updates as it does every second Tuesday of the month for Windows and Office. Generally most updates go through without a hitch once applied, however there is the odd issue that can crop Continue reading May 2014 Patch Tuesday updates failing on Generation 2 Hyper-V Virtual Machines
For all you Windows Phone lovers out there, you will be pleased to hear that Microsoft have released a developer preview of the upcoming 8.1 version of it’s mobile operating system. Those who have signed up for the Windows Phone Continue reading Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview Released