So it was announced late last week that the R2 wave Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 products is to be RTM on October 18th 2013. In parallel to these releases Microsoft is also going live with the long awaited Windows 8.1. This is surely the biggest date in Microsoft’s calendar this year, the…
I’ve recently joined forces with the guys from the UK Windows Management User Group or WMUG for short. As I’m based in the North of England I complement the existing guys who are mainly based in the South of the country so hopefully we can arrange some events outside of London and Reading (MS HQ).…
I fell foul of this problem this week whereby I had been installing a System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 site server. This was a new build Windows Server 2012 but as I began the installation a handy error message alerted me to the existence of an SCCM client. It became apparent that the existing Configuration…
Isn’t it funny how things in life seem to go round in circles over sometimes? Whilst reading and talking to people recently about Microsoft Windows Server 2012 the one thing that is always mentioned is “you need to know powershell”. It seems that Microsoft are now really making a big push now to get people…
Whilst searching for a SQL Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide I stumbled across this link http://bit.ly/A8nQsI (69MB zip file) which allows you to download 92 current (and some past) IPD guides in one fell swoop. Really handy to keep hold of as a point of reference whether you’re a multi-skilled consultant or internal sys admin, these…
As in one of my previous blog posts I re-visited the CIS website today and was very pleased to find that they had published hardening guides for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. These really are great guides which in my mind should be in every IT department and at least reviewed as a baseline policy for your…
