Installing Windows Home Server
A few months ago, I bought myself a Buffalo LinkStation Pro to store all of my home files. Now, whilst this box functions very well as a standalone NAS box, there are some frustrations with it – especially the fact that I can’t stream music and videos directly from it to my Xbox 360. So, when Microsoft announced Windows Home Server, designed specifically to act as the media centre for a home I thought "great!" Now I’ve been invided to the beta, I had a go at getting it up and running…
Creating images with Windows Deployment Services
In my last post I went about installing a Windows Deployment Services server and creating a couple of simplistic boot images, ready to perform automated deployment of Windows clients. Now I’m ready to start doing something useful with my new server – let’s get started!
Hands-on with Windows Deployment Services
Well I’ve been using Microsoft’s Windows Vista for a little while now and the other day we took delivery of our first Vista PC’s. Coupled with the release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, this gave me the perfect opportunity to take a look at one of the more interesting parts of this service pack, Windows Deployment Services.
Building a WordPress Server
For the last couple of months all my work with WordPress has been on a pre-built, hosted web server. I’ve always found WordPress to be a relatively straightforward application to use so when my company needed to set up some employee blog microsites I decided to build a server for it.
Virtualisation on the cheap
In my last post I wrote about building an iSCSI-based SAN using cheap hardware and software. Now for the application layer – virtualisation! But how do we do this using cheap – or free – software?
Building an iSCSI SAN on the cheap
The last few days I’ve been planning my company’s IT strategy for the next year with our new financial year looming. Having just started with this company, I’ve walked into a role where most of the servers run either on non-server hardware or are many, many years old. However, I don’t really have the budget to replace them all. Enter virtualisation…
Installing Adobe Reader on Windows Vista
If, like me, you’re running Vista full time you may be struggling to install one of the most used applications, Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. It’s pretty easy to fix – if you are struggling, here’s how I did it.
Windows Vista Revisited
Well, despite my anti-Vista stance a month or so ago when running the MSDN build I went out and bought the retail version of Vista Home Premium and am running it full-time on my laptop.
Buffalo LinkStation Pro
I’ve just bought a Buffalo LinkStation Pro box to store all my files and it’s great.
WordPress Upgrade
Well I’ve just completed an upgrade of this server to the latest version of WordPress, version 2.1. So what’s different? Any new features? Anything broken? Was it worth the hassle? Read more…
