I finally got a chance to try this out yesterday on a Dell PowerEdge 6600 server that we use for testing at work. I’ve been testing it pretty much most of yesterday and today and I have to say that I’m very impressed with it so far.

Installation was very easy:  download and burn the ISO image, boot from it, follow the installation instructions on the screen (which is pretty much next, next next), …

I finally decided to install this on my laptop yesterday since I already wiped it out to prepare it for VMware ESXi (which unfortunately doesn’t support the onboard NIC on my laptop). I got this copy for free from the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here event and I’ve been avoiding it all this time because of all the complaints about it.

Well, after a few hours of working with it, I have to stay that I’m …

I just found out last night that VMware ESXi, VMware’s bare metal hypervisor, is now available for free. I got really excited and wanted to try it out right away so I decided to use my Lenovo ThinkPad X60s laptop as a test machine. I backed up all my files last night so I can play around with ESXi on it today.

So I installed it from the bootable CD which seem to have …

Here is one of those things that I wish I had known much sooner. Very useful and a big time saver. I just found out about this a few months ago when I wanted to run a report against AD to see if the account info are consistent and up to date, to see which accounts have passwords set to never expire, when they were created/last updated, etc.

So I asked myself whether it’s possible …

Ran into a problem last week where our vendor’s Cyclades TS100 devices couldn’t acquire an IP address from our Cisco 871 router’s DHCP service.

This was a big problem for us because we have about 70 locations using this router and all of them will have these Cyclades TS100s installed in the next two weeks.

After about two days of troubleshooting/testing and working with the vendor we finally figured out the problem. All we had …