Category: Windows
Remotely accessing admin shares on Windows 10
I’m sure I have come across this issue before but never cared to document it here on my blog. And when I do that, I am sure to trip up […]
Replace Command Prompt with PowerShell in Windows 10 Win+X menu
I’m sure this has been written about many times in many places but whenever I install Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 on my machines/VMs, I seem to keep forgetting so […]
How to enable Hibernate on Windows 10
When I received my new Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 preinstalled, I noticed that option to hibernate was missing from Power options in start menu: I have been running […]
Disk performance information missing on Windows 2012 R2 – Blast from the past!
Recently, I replaced a disk in my iScsi NAS. Since I wasn’t using any RAID on the disk I was replacing, I decided to copy data from old volume to […]
Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 2
In Part 1, I provided with walk through of how to install DHCP and configure scope on your newly installed DHCP server. In this post, we are going to setup […]
Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 1
Many times in my past years of IT, I wanted to have DHCP load balancing and high availability. It was possible by creating non-overlapping scopes etc. but that was all […]
Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how you can route between VMs on same host using networks connected to “Internal” virtual switch. Now let’s look at how to […]
Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 1
Most of us IT Pros usually have a lab of some kind. Mostly running some form of virtualization and if you are Microsoft savvy, chances are you are running Hyper-V […]
SQL Server 2012 install error enabling Windows Feature NetFx3
While creating one of many Lync scenario labs, I chose to install SQL Server 2012 instead of my usual install of SQL 2008 on Windows Server 2012. Going about my […]
Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012
Note: Article updated to reflect changes as of February 2016 Installing WordPress on Windows Servers have been a challenge for me in the past. Mostly because of my ignorance to […]