Ramblings from The Montopolis Group

I upgraded my HP nc8430 laptop from 1gb of RAM to 2gb today because Vista performance was just killing me. 

I didn’t believe 1gb of RAM would make that big of a difference – BOY WAS I WRONG!

Vista is no longer a hinderance to me – its fast and snappy.   YEAH!!!

I had already turned off all the “extras” like Aero, Defender, etc to try to make 1gb work.

What a difference 1gb of extra RAM makes…

After much frustration

1. reboot
2. reset wsus on client (script), wait for propogation
3. reset ie security settings, resync client
4. reset ie advanced settings, resync client
5. review windowsupdate.log for in-depth troubleshooting

The diva has done it again!  A post every business owner and person in charge of IT needs to have. 

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/05/11/looking-for-disaster-planning-links.aspx

I have been so looking forward to these two features in Longhorn:

• Server Core (a barebones way to install Windows, allows “embedded” type servers like we do on Linux/Unix)
• Read-only domain controllers

A very nice article at TechTarget gives the low down.  A must read for all system administrators!