This iSCSI based SAN has been serving me extraordinarily well for 7 years and one of the controllers in the machine decided to give out the other day. So I was down to one controller serving a bunch of VMs and I needed to replace the defective one so it can be running in full redundant mode again. Purchasing the […]
I have a BitLocker encrypted external drive that I needed to read from a Windows Server 2012. When I connected it to the server and right-click on the drive I don’t see the Unlock Drive option from the context menu like I usually see on my Windows 10 computer. So, what to do? How to enable BitLocker encryption on Windows […]
Windows Server 2016 is the latest Windows server platform from Microsoft, RTM’d in September 2016, generally available on October 12, 2016, bearing a Windows version number at 10.0.14393. It’s the one built with the cloud in mind that brings a lot of new features and changes. Here is a list of free resources prepared for me to keep pace with this […]
One of my Windows Server 2012 R2 ran out of space. A quick folder analysis using the free portable tool TreeSize revealed that both Windows.old and WinSxS folders are the ones taking most of the spaces. On Windows desktop systems, both folders are easy to clean up with the built in tool Disk Cleanup Utility. But, it’s not the case in […]
I love RAM DISK and have been using it for quite some time on my Windows 10. But I didn’t know that I can set it up as well on Windows Server, thanks to Mounia Rachidi for sharing. Would definitely try some day. Here is a step-by-step Walkthrough: Add iSCSI Target Server role on Windows Server. Adjust the firewall rules […]
All of sudden, all Windows desktops at work started having this issue when trying to connect to WSUS server for Windows updates. On Windows 7, it states that Windows could not search for new updates Errors found: Code 80244008 On Windows 10, the error message is slightly different. There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later…(0x8024401f) What’s […]
First of all, here is why RAID 5 is so bad and has stopped working since 2009. To recap, two things to blame here. UREs (Unrecoverable Read Error) Disk storage capacity Here is an example to illustrate why it’s so bad having RAID 5 on large capacity hard drives. With a 7-2TB drives RAID 5 setup, when one drive failed, you […]