Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server
What’s the best disk setup on a small business server? I recently got to play around with some options as I set up a Hyper-V host on a Dell PowerEdge …
ShadowProtect Fails Reading Hyper-V Pass-Through Disk
I decided to use ShadowProtect to do a physical-to-virtual (P2V) move of an SBS 2003 machine. I booted the SBS 2003 machine from a ShadowProtect 3.5 CD and created offline …
Re-Create Dell Utility Partition after Windows Server 2008 Bare Metal Restore
So you’ve used Windows Server 2008 bare metal restore and it wiped out your Dell Utility Partition. What to do? Background: I’m setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine …
Diskpart Does Not See Volumes on OEM Partitions
As I worked today on recreating a Dell Utility Partition, I encountered this factoid: Diskpart, when run inside Windows, does not see volumes on OEM partitions.
Custom Format Drive During Server 2008 Install
I’m installing SBS 2008 in a Hyper-V VM. I want the system partition to be formatted with 16KB allocation unit (cluster) size. Whether that turns out to be a good …
WordPress at Go Daddy Slow Compared to BlogEngine.NET
Through the end of May, this blog was run on BlogEngine.NET and hosted on a Small Business Server through a DSL connection with a maximum 768 kbps upload speed. On …
Hyper-V Core Configurator Does Not Show Paused VMs
I’ve been running PBX in a Flash under the free version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 for several months (blogged earlier). This week, I’ve added a couple test machines …
Linux Daily Delete Job with Logwatch
I have PBX in a Flash set up to create a daily backup and FTP the file to a Windows server. But how do I get rid of the old …
Using Gzip in a Cron Job at Go Daddy
I wanted to copy my web site and subwebs from Go Daddy to my local machine. My trusty old WS_FTP32 client kept disconnecting partway through the (large) download. I installed …
Moving from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
I’ve been hosting this blog on my own Windows server since 2007 using BlogEngine.NET. Although I’ve been fairly happy with BlogEngine, I wanted to move my web sites to a …