Wow Vista finally works!

On May 18, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

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…

 

Steps to fixing WSUS Clients

On May 16, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

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
 

Disaster Planning Links

On May 15, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

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

 

Longhorn Active Directory Enhancements

On May 15, 2007, in Uncategorized, by Babul A. Mukherjee

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!