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Well, it would seem that the golden rule of “if you rush, it will break” has already kicked in … First, a correction:  I stated in my last post that the free edition of Veeam allows for individual fie restores, that is incorrect.  I was basing my comments on the information on Veeam’s site which …

As promised, this is the second post in a series of posts about work I’m doing at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary in Victoria.  As you may recall from my first post, I said that I would document the good, the bad and the ugly!  Well, here we go with some of everything! …

l have been fighting with a new RDS (terminal server) install at a big customer for the last few months.  They run a line of business app that is written in Visual FoxPro9 and it has some quirks, to say the least.  They were running the app on an older Server 2008 terminal server on …

I recently went through a few weeks of never-ending “pain” with a client’s new RDS server install.  The RDS server was built as a Generation2 Hyper-V VM on top of Server 2012 R2 using Server 2012 R2 as the O/S.  The Hyper-V host itself is a fairly powerful Dell T620 that I originally built out …

I had a customer ask me about this the other day and I thought it might be useful to have a quick discussion about the differences between these two desktop access technologies. While we are all rushing to embrace the Cloud (Hello O365!) there is still a lot of need by a lot of organizations …

In a previous post I discussed the process of setting up and configuring Storage Spaces.  Since I made that post I have done some more work with Storage Spaces and have learned more so I thought I’d share some more with you. Storage Spaces expects to see “raw” disk drives which you then configure in …

Server 2012 and 2012 R2 introduced the concept and tool of Windows “Storage Spaces”.  To be frank, I was royally confused by what they were and what purpose they served until I sat through a 2012 R2 Jumpstart.  Now I “see the light” so I hope to be able to share the light with you.  …

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth you needed to use Citrix Presentation Server if you wanted to “publish” applications from a terminal server out to a webpage for easier yet controlled access by users. It sat on top of a Terminal Server install and provided extended functionality that mere Terminal Server users …