I was looking around for a quicker and easier way to do automated backups for running Hyper-V guests as part of a recent work project. As you might guess, there are tons of options – mostly it comes down to how much you want to spend. I had been told … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was changing my IIS web server configurations to (hopefully) better manage memory and App Pools. That’s been working out quite satisfactorily. Yesterday I realized the changes I made can give another nice side effect. I was preparing to start some maintenance … Continue reading
This is probably a bit obscure but writing it up will surely help someone — if not myself next time around… I use WhatsUp Gold to monitor the machines at work. Been using it for years and it has worked great for us. Recently I hit a little challenge though. … Continue reading
Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. … Continue reading
I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair … Continue reading
