Recently I updated my vSphere 4.1 environment to vSphere 5. The main reason was so that I could start testing Windows 8 client and server, which currently aren’t supported on vSphere 4.x. Continue reading
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Creating Apps for Windows Phone 7
I’m currently testing a Nokia Lumia 800 and might switch over from iPhone if everything works as it should. So far I’m very impressed with the speed of the device, and direct editing of Office documents is at last possible again. Of course one of the benefits of coming back to Windows Phone (last Windows Phone I had was an HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5) is that it’s easier for me to create Apps. Continue reading
Microsoft Certification 20th Anniversary
It’s been 20 years now since the first certification exams became available from Microsoft. And while I haven’t been with the program right from the start, it’s still been what feels like ages since I passed my first exam. Continue reading
Using PowerShell, WMI and diskpart to bring disks online
I use iSCSI LUNs and Windows Server Backup to back up my virtual machines. So far that has worked ok, but sometimes Continue reading
Creating PowerShell script library
Over time I’ve created some PowerShell scripts that I want to reuse. And of course I would like to have them at my fingertips as soon as I start a PowerShell session. Continue reading
Get Windows uptime using PowerShell
Need to know how long your Windows system has been running? Continue reading
Automatically move clustered applications to their default preferred owner
Ever had to restart several nodes of a cluster? What do you do with the clustered resources after all nodes are back up again? Right, you redistribute them. Tedious work if we’re talking about really big clusters with many clustered resources. Continue reading
How to patch Windows Server Core using WSUS
Using the script from here, I can patch my Core box. I’ve added some code so I don’t have to look up the return codes (which can be found here). Continue reading
Welcome!
Welcome to my new blog. Continue reading