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Category: Miscellaneous

  • Network connectivity issue HP Proliant DL380 G6 servers

    In the last few weeks we had seemed to have lost connectivity to some Microsoft Server 2008 based Hyper-V hosts. On closer investigation something common started to show in the results. All of these were HP Proliant DL360 G6 based hosts, and all of them were using the Q-Logic 4 Port NIC. Furthermore, the loss […]?

  • Wireless Network “Off” on Sony Vaio Laptop after upgrade to Windows 8

    Whilst playing with the new Windows 8 – see my article “My Experience installing Windows 8“- i attempted to install it on an older Sony Vaio laptop. Initially all looked well, even the activation was not a problem (in contrary to Win 7 upgrades). But than i cam across a very interesting problem – the […]?

  • Create bootable USB drive to install latest Microsoft Windows systems

    I was looking for a quick guide on how to install Windows server 2012 from a USB stick. I came across Lai Yoong Seng’s post Install Windows Server 2012 RC Using USB device. His blog post pointed me to a very simple and useful tool from Microsoft – Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. Lai has a very nice […]?