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July 2008 - Posts

• PowerShell + VMWare

  Our development endeavours often include many tens of developers each with their own managed virtualised development environment. Typically, on top of these, there are multiple test and pre-production environments (each with clusters or load balanced Read More... Posted 29 July 2008 14:18 by James.Saull | 1 Comments

• Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 and WHS+USB 1.0 == Misery!

  I pushed too much data on to the Windows Home Server (WHS) and I started to get health warnings indicating which files it could no longer duplicate. My data was stored OK, just at risk. Given that the WHS experience was going well I ordered up a Lacie Read More... Posted 23 July 2008 21:39 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• Windows Home Server

  I successfully installed Windows Home Server on a 7 year old Athlon 1800 with 512MB of RAM and two ATA drives (100GB and 200GB). My first concerns were: would the BIOS support booting from the DVD drive and was it a USB 2 card in there? Thankfully yes Read More... Posted 15 July 2008 13:03 by James.Saull | 1 Comments