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2013

Setup a Wireless Hotspot in Windows 8
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system-administration tech ad-hoc ics internet-connection-sharing sysadmin technology windows-8 wireless wireless-hotspot
I only discovered this less than a fortnight ago but Microsoft in their wisdom removed the GUI option to setup a wireless hotspot (or Ad Hoc network) in Windows 8.
RIP Microsoft TechNet Subscriptions
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system-administration tech sysadmin technet technet-subscription technology
If you haven’t heard the news already, Microsoft have made the decision to retire the TechNet Subscriptions service.
TechEd '13 Europe is on right now
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system-administration tech microsoft sql-server-2014 sysadmin system-center-2012-r2 teched technology windows-8-1 windows-azure windows-server-2012-r2
It’s a fantastic time in tech circles at the moment.
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 Preview has been released
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system-administration tech rsat sysadmin technology windows-8-1 windows-server-2012 windows-server-2012-r2
In a rather strange move by Microsoft, the Remote Server Administration Tools (commonly known as RSAT) for the upcoming Windows 8.
Switching between Windows Server 2012's interface levels
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system-administration tech minimum-server-interface powershell server-core sysadmin technology windows-2012
One of the much touted features of Microsoft’s latest incarnation of the Windows Server release, Server 2012 is that administrators can freely switch between levels of interface available to the user.
200 views in a day
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I previous wrote about the exciting milestone of reaching 100 views in a day with DXPetti.
Disable Network Adapter's Dynamic DNS Registration via Registry
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system-administration tech dns regedit registry sysadmin technology windows-server
There are numerous reasons why DNS is amazing, it makes it a hell of a lot easier to navigate IP devices, it’s one tool to make your data centre flexible and elastic and is friendly to the eye (for those whom English is fluent).
Give a computer account Send-As permissions in Exchange Powershell
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system-administration tech exchange exchange-2007 exchange-2010 powershell sysadmin technology
Take for instance the File Server Resource Manager that is a feature of the File Server role.
How to set a SQL database in Microsoft SQL Server to offline
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system-administration tech mssql sql sysadmin technology
After moving a database to a new server (via backup and restore utilities built into Microsoft SQL Server) I wanted to take the copy on the old server offline to ensure when testing the move I was only accessing the new database but due to my limited (but growing) knowledge I had no idea how to take a database offline.
Move Quorum Disk Witness to another node
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system-administration tech cluster hyper-v server-core sysadmin technology windows-server-2008-r2
I cannot say the Failover Cluster Manager is a very intuitive management interface.