Early look at containers in Windows Server, Hyper-V and Azure – with Mark Russinovich Early look at containers in Windows Server, Hyper-V and Azure – with Mark Russinovich. Interesting - have a look! Andrea MatesiSenior Professional Network and Computer Systems Engineer during work hours and father when home. Andrea strives to deliver outstanding customer service and heaps of love towards his family. In this Ad-sponsored space, Andrea… Read More
Custom Alcatel OmniPCX Voice Prompts. Alcatel OmniPCX requires a .wav format file sampled in PCM 8000 kHz, 8 bits, mono - full stop. 3, 2, 1...action! Record your voice message as a wav file. To record a voice prompt, you may simply... Run "Windows sound recorder". Record a wma (or a wav) file. Then you'll need to convert your message… Read More
[video] intel Wireless docking. Andrea MatesiSenior Professional Network and Computer Systems Engineer during work hours and father when home. Andrea strives to deliver outstanding customer service and heaps of love towards his family. In this Ad-sponsored space, Andrea shares his quest for "ultimate" IT knowledge, meticulously brought to you in an easy to read format. www.pwrusr.com… Read More
How to clone and restore broken NTFS-hdd with dd and CentOS 6.2 live. In one of my previous articles I wrote how to use a couple of fancy tools included by default on Ubuntu to clone and restore an Windows, NTFS-based, broken hdd: http://www.pwrusr.com/system-administration/how-to-make-an-ntfs-image-of-a-faulty-windows-hdd-with-ntfsclone-and-ubuntu Today I will show you how I performed a similar operations by relying on CentOS 6.2 live and standard “default” tools. The cloning procedure.… Read More
2 Free Ubuntu 14.04 LTS X64 (Desktop + Server) Gen2 VHDX Hyper-V 2012 R2 Virtual Appliances. New Ubuntu 14.04 LTS X64 Desktop Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. New Ubuntu 14.04 LTS X64 Server Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. Go to the "Downloads" section and grab your copy today! Release Notes. For all y'all Hyper-V 2012 R2 lovers, today I released two new GEN2 virtual appliances. They are based on… Read More
5 steps to upgrade Windows 8 x64 to Windows 8.1 x64 for free. Microsoft-mas gifts. Microsoft was so happy about the Windows 8 success that they choose to gift us all with a new, improved Windows (or should I say Tileows?!) 8.1. If you are the lucky owner of a genuine Windows 8, you are entitled to a free Windows 8.1 upgrade from the Windows Store. … Read More
[SOLVED] My Dell XPS L501X won’t turn ON. According to the following thread: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19489949/20297131.aspx#20297131 The possible culprits for the laptop not turning ON are: A defective Mother Board (or Logic Board). A charging Port defect. In my experience, I will add to the previous list: The AWM cable run, located below the upper frame (ie. the frame where the trackpad is attached). Above… Read More
service post n.2 - testing tweetable WP plugin. Andrea MatesiSenior Professional Network and Computer Systems Engineer during work hours and father when home. Andrea strives to deliver outstanding customer service and heaps of love towards his family. In this Ad-sponsored space, Andrea shares his quest for "ultimate" IT knowledge, meticulously brought to you in an easy to read format. www.pwrusr.com… Read More
[Solved] NLA Domain Profile and Disabled IPv6 on Windows Server 2012. Hello all, today I experienced a Windows Server 2012 issue which puzzled me for a couple of hours. After deploying a DC, I went on and disabled IPv6 (by adding the "DisabledComponents"-Key to my Registry): reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 0xffffffff After rebooting the System, I noticed the Network Location Awarness-related "Domain"… Read More
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Server Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. New Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Server Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. Proceed to the download section to obtain your copy. Release Notes. This marks the release of the first publicly available Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Server Hyper-V Virtual Appliance. Simply download, extract and import ("Action" -> "Import Virtual Machine"), the appliance onto Hyper-V to deploy a… Read More
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Desktop Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. New Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Desktop Hyper-V Virtual Appliance available. Proceed to the download section to obtain your copy. Release Notes. This marks the release of the first publicly available Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64 Desktop Hyper-V Virtual Appliance. Simply download, extract and import ("Action" -> "Import Virtual Machine"), the appliance onto Hyper-V to deploy a… Read More
New Centos-6.2-x86_64-minimal Hyper-V VHD. Centos-6.2-x86_64-minimal available! New Centos-6.2-x86_64-minimal Hyper-V VHD available. Proceed to the (new!) download section to grab your copy. Release Notes: This marks the release of the first publicly available CentOS 6.2 X64 minimal Hyper-V VHD. Simply download and deploy the VHD to your own virtualized environments. I wish to also particularly thank all the Linux SA… Read More
A. Matesi:"The fastest CentOS VM Deployment on Microsoft Hyper-V Servers"-speech. My invitation to attend the speech where I will be presenting how to deploy Linux CentOS VMs inside Microsoft Hyper-V Hosts (MS Windows Server 2008 R2 or MS Hyper-V Server).… Read More