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Ever seen this in System Center Virtual Machine Manager? Computername, Unsupported Cluster Configuration, Host Normally, it’s down to something silly like someone forgot to detach an ISO image from the CD drive when they were...
Read the noteToday we had an odd message in System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager. Software updates synchronization for the Software Update Point role failed
Read the noteWe had an interesting issue with Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 7 64bit today – when opening a PDF from an untrusted website on the Internet, IE would display a grey/black ‘broken page’ icon in the top right with...
Read the noteI recently took on a new client who was having problems with a server on their site. They have a 1gbps dedicated connection to the Internet that was being saturated by an incoming DDoS attack. Opening Resource Monitor on their...
Read the note“Bloody hell”. I actually said that out loud whilst testing the new version of Opera’s browser ‘Opera Next’ (http://www.opera.com/developer/next) I would post a video of it installing, but it would only be about three seconds...
Read the noteThose of you who know me will know that I’m a massive fan of Approaching Nirvana. First heard them on a soundtrack for a YouTube video. Anyway – check out their new album on bandcamp here:...
Read the noteSo today I just happened to notice that one of our DCs at work didn’t have the latest version of a GPO. I was creating a new policy using Group Policy Preferences (amazing bit of kit btw – have a look at Alan Burchill’s how to get...
Read the noteWindows 8 has a fantastic lock screen that displays the time and a picture of your choosing. That is until 60 seconds are up, and Microsoft decided that this would be a great time to turn the screen off, especially when there’s...
Read the noteBT recently announced its plans to get rid of bandwidth caps and traffic management on all but their entry-level broadband packages.1 We ask the questions: ‘What is Bandwidth?’; ‘What is Traffic Management?’ and ‘What does it mean...
Read the noteWelcome to a new series called ‘The Internet Explained’ – a series of articles about topics that have either been in the news, or people have asked us about. This week – Java vs JavaScript.
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