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maandag 16 juli 2007 21:18

Windows Home Server - RTM

There was not such a great buzz about this edition (at least not here in Belgium) but nevertheless it is an interesting product. It contains some nice features like a home network health monitor which makes sure all updates are applied on your home PC's, full system restores, automatic backup and many more. Check out the announcement...
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vrijdag 6 april 2007 19:52

WinDbg and SQL Server minidumps

Today a couple of our test servers started to act very weird. Some jobs were going incredibly slow and eventually most of them crashed causing a mini dump to be generated. The error log pointed to I/O problems with latch timeouts but there were no details on which file exactly it crashed. The SAN and NAS management is done by another...
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woensdag 14 maart 2007 8:18

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

It was very close indeed :-) Download here - fixlist here
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dinsdag 27 februari 2007 21:50

Yet another difference in Vista Home Premium

I was trying to expose 2 drives as 1 which is possible by using dynamic disks. I'm a big fan of diskpart so I tried converting the disk using this command line utility: diskpart select disk 1 convert dynamic Error: Dynamic disks are not supported by your edition This is not a new limitation, it was actually the same for Windows XP...
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vrijdag 9 februari 2007 23:19

The not so visible differences between Vista Editions

I was trying to run Virtual Server 2005 R2 on my Vista machine and installed IIS as mentioned below. There was one option I couldn't find however and that was "Windows Authentication". Apparently there are more differences between the Vista editions as there are mentioned on the website. Windows Authentication is not available on...
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vrijdag 9 februari 2007 21:56

Windows Vista

If you are a freak like me and can't wait to install Vista, although you know there will be many compatibility problems so early after a release, you might encounter some problems when you try to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on a Vista machine (MSDE will NOT be supported). There is a website however that can help you with...
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