http://blog.leafgrove.com/ Windows, Management and Assorted Rantings en-us Matthew1471's BlogX / BlogX.co.uk Content © James D. Stallard (all rights reserved) james@leafgrove.com james@leafgrove.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://blog.leafgrove.com/RSS/Image.jpg http://blog.leafgrove.com/ 100 100 Tue, 24 Jul 2008 23:16 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=107 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=107 With the rising cost of fuel impacting everyone's bottom lines and the increasingly good PR to be had, one of my clients asked me to come up with a centrally controlled power management solution for their Windows XP estate of around 3500 machines.<p><p>Accor... Tue, 3 May 2008 17:38 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=101 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=101 The fact that you're able to read this at all can be considered something of a success as I've just finished migrating my various web applications to new webservers running Windows Server 2008. IIS 7 is a whole new ball game, and I don't just mean the inco... Sat, 7 Apr 2008 14:56 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=98 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=98 Desktop Virtualisation is the replacement of the traditional desktop hardware with a thin or zero client device that presents only an interface to a Virtual Machine - running on VMWare ESX/VI3/Virtual Server, Microsoft Virtual Server or some other virtuali... Sat, 7 Apr 2008 13:44 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=97 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=97 Back in December 2007 I saw a photo of a tiny desktop device designed to provide a connection to a VMware Virtual Machine. This device was manufactured by Pano Logic in the USA and the photo appear in Windows IT Pro in a write-up of the VMWorld show that y... Sat, 7 Feb 2008 09:56 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=89 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=89 I got the nod today that W2K8 is out and the download (all 3.8Gb for both processor versions) has already started. You (probably) heard it here first, so go get yours! Tue, 31 Aug 2007 23:36 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=80 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=80 It's something I hear often these days from clients becoming increasingly frustrated at being unable to find decent quality and skilled IT staff and contractors. It's not at all surprising...<p><p>In the last 15 years (and probably long before then), the IT ... Mon, 16 Aug 2007 18:40 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=78 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=78 There are three types of patching policy:<p><p>• Pro-active<p>• Re-active<p>• Ad-hoc<p><p>Pro-active patching is the process by which patches are applied as soon as possible after they become available (subject to testing or industry indicators) and the business... Sat, 7 Aug 2007 09:03 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=75 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=75 Over the last few years I have put in at least a dozen resilient DHCP solutions, search this blog for a few of my thoughts on the subject or take a look <a href="http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=164" target="_New">here </a>for some design tips.... Sun, 1 Aug 2007 19:21 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=74 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=74 As part of my ongoing general interest in the perfect branch-office infrastructure design, I recently decided to put in DFS-R at home. I created all the namespaces and began replication, only to have the CPU shoot to 100% on DFSR.EXE as soon as I enabled t... Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:02 GMT AD%20and%20Enterprise%20Systems http://blog.leafgrove.com/ViewItem.asp?Entry=73 http://blog.leafgrove.com/Comments.asp?Entry=73 For a number of years I have run what I laughingly call "my server" out of my house. <p><p>I first decided I needed a server back in 1996, when two things happened. First, the amount of disk space I needed fit into my desktop machine exceeded the available r...