I’ve been going back and forth overclocking my haswell 4670k. MSI has a built in overclocking button called overclock genie, which would take the CPU to 4GHz but I don’t trust auto overclocking and I did have some crashes happen with apps and games. So after reading some more guides and seeing what others are […]
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Long time no post – how about some SATA disk benchmarks?
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted to my fledgling blog, mainly because I’m working … aLOT. … And I really do care about this blog a lot. And the two people that have left comments made me care just a little more. Unfortunately I just don’t get a chance to post all […]
Read More →Remote into your workgroup Windows 2012 Core server with Powershell
PS101 … In the corner of my basement is a media server running Windows 2012 core. I never have to log into it, I never have to update it, I never have to do much with it. The server simply runs, which is the whole point of core right? Unfortunately there was another thing that […]
Read More →How to fix: SCVMM 2012 The remote computer could not authenticated due to problems with its security certificate
Getting this error in your System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 console? This is because the certificate for the host the VM resides on is not trusted. All you have to do is install the certificate into your trusted root on the machine you are connecting from and the connection will work. Here’s […]
Read More →How to use Microsoft iSCSI Target with Windows Media Center
Get rid of that lumbering and noisy mechanical drive in your home theater PC (HTPC) and use an iSCSI disk instead to store your live recordings in Windows media center. My HTPC uses a tiny (60GB) SSD disk for the OS and applications and a 1TB iSCSI disk to record gobs of live TV. I […]
Read More →Performance with Azure and W3 Total Cache
At work I’ve been working a lot with Windows Azure pack and the Websites role (WAPWS). This is Windows Azure for hosting providers, it allows us hosters to provide our own Azure environment on our own equipment. Meaning we can be less expensive than MS azure but provide the same service, sometimes even better. For […]
Read More →Remove unwanted features in Windows Server 2012
Here is my horribly long powershell command to remove a bunch of unwanted features from Windows Server 2012. This saved 1.8GB of disk space. Why is under 2GB of disk space signifcant in today’s world? Well, without talking about SSDs multiply that by a 100 VHDs and you save 180GB. That’s significant on expensive SAN […]
Read More →The big list of Windows Features in Server 2012
In an effort to create a tiny sysprepped Windows 2012 VHD I wanted to uninstall all the roles I know I won’t be using. (And even if I do need them they are easy to put back.) Tiny VHD’s equal less disk space and much faster VM builds. First thing I wanted was a simple […]
Read More →System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager error (0x8033803b)
Getting this error when trying to refresh a host in system center 2012 virtual machine manager? Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server meh.local :a:DestinationUnreachable :The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service cannot find the resource identified by the resource URI and selectors. . Unknown error (0x8033803b) Recommended […]
Read More →0x80072ee2 Windows Update “Operation Timed Out” error in Hyper-V virtual machine
Sometimes I like to stump my future self by making a random change along the way that will eventually cause problems. By stump I mean spitting mad. Trolling myself? Perhaps. Anyway I made some bonehead change in my virtual lab at some point that was allowing everything but Windows Update and Activation through on my […]
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