With the drive to the cloud Microsoft has done away with their Migration wizard that you used to be able to use when you got a new PC. So the question becomes “Well how do I move my documents and settings?” and the answer is pretty easy, OneDrive. With OneDrive you have access to all […]
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I was recording a demo today of the new picture password feature in Windows 8 and Windows RT on my surface tablet today and I think it has a virus. Take a look at the youtube video below and let me know if you think it can be cleaned. Best viewed in full screen so
Holy Crap! My Surface Tablet already has a virus Read More »
Recently, I was invited to give a presentation at the Orlando DotNetNuke Usersgroup around DotNetNuke website performance. The first tidbit of information I provided was that when you’re running on a Windows Cloud Server or Windows VPS Server or a Managed Windows Server, you always to make backups of your configuration before making sweeping changes.
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I’ve been experimenting with SCOM for a project I’m doing. One of the things that people frequently complain about in SCOM is that when you enable a management pack those monitors are enabled for EVERY SINGLE MACHINE it discovers. Annoying right? Well turns out you can work around this. Here’s what you have to do:
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Today I needed to know what the environment variable for C:\Program Files (x86)\ would be for a project I was working. I found a great table of these on Wikipedia.org at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Default_Values_on_Microsoft_Windows Here’s that table though for quick reference
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3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight: Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative. Discusses ARR & Load balancing. All of this was to explain how I’m running
JessCoburn.Com running on ARR! and that not be Pirate speak thar Matey! Read More »
In the 10 years I’ve been working with Windows as a web hosting platform (and the 15 or so I’ve been working with web servers period), I can confidently say that IIS7 is without question the best web server platform to date. Microsoft has been working on a plug-in for IIS called Application Request Routing
A little info about Application Request Routing (or ARR) in IIS7. Read More »
My most popular blog post is about installing Windows 2008 from a USB thumb drive. Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and used the same instructions to do that upgrade. So the instructions for: Installing Vista from a USB Thumb Drive Installing Windows Server 2008 from
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At work and home I have the same setup, dual monitors. I always RDP into my desktop these days instead of installing Outlook, Office, etc at home and I’ve always found myself not working in dual monitor mode because of this when working remotely. Turns out you can use multiple monitors in Terminal Services afterall.
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Ran into a problem today where I needed to kill a process on a server that I didn’t have remote KVM access to and couldn’t RDP into. This particular machine had only VNC and the VNC service was hung. Windows Server includes two commands tasklist and taskkill that allow you to remotely list the processes
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