technology

If you have been hanging out for the latest release of Windows for either your home computer or your server farms the wait is almost over.

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.

If you haven’t heard the news already, Microsoft have made the decision to retire the TechNet Subscriptions service.

It’s a fantastic time in tech circles at the moment.

In a rather strange move by Microsoft, the Remote Server Administration Tools (commonly known as RSAT) for the upcoming Windows 8.

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.

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).

Take for instance the File Server Resource Manager that is a feature of the File Server role.

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.

I cannot say the Failover Cluster Manager is a very intuitive management interface.