http://www.newsweek.com/id/217014/ is worth reading if you manage users password policies or you interested in them
Austin just repeated some excellent advice for DS Admin’s you can see Joe’s list here
I got a new tablet a HP tx2-1340ea and couldn’t resist installing Windows 7 Ultimate (it only came with some lesser form Windows 7 like Home User and a load of HP non essential stuff) and to install the new Windows 7 I turned to one of my USB keys rather than use a DVD.
Long story short – it worked. How do you do it? Well you need one that is at least 4GB in size. Open yourself an Elevated Command Prompt. Type in diskpart and press enter. Type list disk, make a note of the number you get here as you may have multiple ones on you system. Now come selecting the drive so type select disk # (which is the number you got back when you listed the disks before). Now you have to clean it down so type clean and press enter. Once that’s finished you have to create partition primary and again press enter. Now type select partition 1 and again press enter. Now you have to activate it so type active and press enter. Now it’s the time to format it so type format fs=ntfs quick (the quick saves some time but isn’t essential). Now type assign and enter to allocate a drive letter to the new drive, mine was I:. Your now fished with the Command Prompt and can safely exit it. Now you can copy the installation media, mine was on an ISO so using Virtual CloneDrive a wonderful freeware program I copied all the files over and booted the tablet. With a couple of reboots I had Windows 7 installed and ready to go. The same should hold true of booting a server and installing a server OS and I’ll report back on how that experiment goes.
Just finished http://www.betanews.com/article/Mark-Russinovich-on-MinWin-the-new-core-of-Windows/1259792850 by Mark Russinovich which is very interesting and shows how much better 2008 R2 is over say 2003.
I really like it and in particular Outlook which while in the 2007 version was usable in the 2010 it’s like a revelation and Word and Excel continue to be very usable and in my option have got in Excel’s capability to access the amount of memory available in 64 bit mode Windows a great deal better, why we’ve had to wait this long only those inside MS who are privy to the figures on take up of 64 Windows can know. I for one will be glad to see it when next year I guess it’s released.
Is great a very good portable music player and the screen is outstanding with 32GB of storage it blows through the storing and playing of music, videos and podcasts as well as storing and displaying pictures. The only thing is at the moment you cannot log into the Zune sites if like me your outside the US, hopefully Microsoft will release the Zune to the UK so that will be fixed and I can sign up for the as much music you can download per month and keep 10 of them which for the money they are charging appears excellent value, but as a music junkie with over 560 albums already in his collection can I really say anything else. As a DVD player it does very well to and I can record AnyDVD and AVS Video Convertor for doing the actual ripping to the Zune.
Are back because it shouldn’t be stated enough physical access to a server or group of servers means sooner or later you can get in for the files or if your determined everything as someone the old domains was protecting including the ‘administrator’. It took me so long because having forgotten the admin password and my own and only one hand and not even my primary one at that it took me a while but I got there. That and remembering lots of thing that I probably should know but I do and there the sort of things anybody burgling you’re systems is likely to know all too well regardless of the OS your running, if this matters to you then their are things you can do about it but it makes the backup and security more complex and most of all your own recovery in the failure of your system or you memory which like mine was the problem and now I’ve got it all written down and printed which I should have done first time but you know what we all learn from our mistakes but it’s a matter of how much it costs and the time taken.
I found some great software for mounting those ISO files as CD’s or DVD files for free, http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html is the home page and it’s great not even a annoying registration page to harvest your details it seems very light and allows you a lot of control.
today I bought some s/w which was great it is http://www.imobiletool.com/sms-backup.html and it did what it said on the tin it would it incorporated my >2000 messages no trouble and was well worth the small investment.
Yosemite Backup for Tandberg Data Administrator is the supplied software, you get a trial version with the hardware. Now it seems to cope with my installed software on the server (Windows 2008 64 bit version which is a Domain Controller and also an Exchange 2007 SP1 server) now to backup the Exchange I’ll need to buy the Server Backup Plus as I need the Exchange Option, which happens to mean it’s going to be legal to install on 3 servers which will come in useful when I get Matrix and Neo back up and running.
it was dead easy to get going after the reboot for installing the drivers (not needed but it makes things easier to use the eject button which is built into the caddy of the mechanism). The first backup is running just now and is 4% done, not bad for a few minutes.
Do them regularly and have a schedule for them because if you are a lone person the last thing you’ll want is to loose those old photo’s or the downloaded music, now if your a company IT guy you are dealing with other peoples data not just the companies survival or not if it goes wrong. Now I just suffered a server go down because I changed something that shouldn’t have done it but it did and I was lucky my email is buffered off site for a few weeks in case just a thing occurs and it is just Exchange for the most part that seems affected and I can get in and save our data. I learnt there’s no such thing as never all over again and gone out to buy a Tandberg RDX QuikStor 160GB Removable Disk Cartridge and Enclosure to backup those files before I start reinstalling Windows and Exchange. The Tandberg is a good combination of space that has a chance to grow with the server and my data, current drives are up to 500GB, and speed because it is after all a hard disk and not some tape so it can be used to get your files off no mater what system was running on the server because it will in theory mount on anything. I’ll let you know when I get it but even the included software sounds pretty decent.
I know now / remember a lot more about my home domain because I bought http://www.elcomsoft.com/esr.html in the Pro version and it was so easy to use and powerful it loaded the Areca controller driver from my USB stick and I was in. Sadly the DC was not, I had been planning on making it before the accident but in the mean time my ML370 generation 2 has failed with a fan error, good thing you can get a recent later generation from EBay which will take the RAID card and also the hard disks for not a lot of money. So of to moving the card and the disks I go and then I’ll get into our files.
to Matrix using http://www.elcomsoft.com/ the next thing is the Domain Controller Neo but I’ve got confidence back from having found the right Areca controller from a USB stick and Neo is a Compaq real server with our real data on it
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