Last Updated on 20 May 2013, Total: 331 Blog Posts
With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.
| 8 | Command-line | 23 April 2013 |
| 106 | General | 17 May 2013 |
| 29 | Implementation | 9 May 2013 |
| 16 | Monitoring | 18 Jan. 2013 |
| 88 | News | 20 May 2013 |
| 70 | Products | 25 April 2013 |
| 5 | Troubleshooting | 2 May 2012 |
| 9 | Virtualization | 7 March 2013 |
Are you an MSDN subscriber? I can imagine that most of you somehow are connected to MSDN and enjoy the benefits it offers, however, Microsoft are now offering free compute hours on their Windows Azure infrastructure if you are an MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscriber. Check with your manager or superiors your subscription level and take advantage of this offer... Read More
Network Monitor is a free tool available from Microsoft. You can capture data using either the graphical Network Monitor or the command-line NMCap tool. Analysis of the captured data must be done through the graphical interface. As network traffic is in abundance especially on busy servers, you would need to use filters to reduce the number of packets collected and... Read More
Search Commands is an Office Labs experiment designed to quickly find the commands you need in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. It works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint only. Office Labs is a group within Microsoft and experiments with ideas by building prototypes to shape future research and development in the productivity space for both work and home. To install... Read More
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate (RC) supports the new Windows 8 and Azure platforms with new tools that make HTML 5 and CSS 3 development more productive and higher quality end results. The development tool includes Windows Azure project templates and a whole slew of features for Windows 8 Metro and desktop applications. Download the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate... Read More
Try Microsoft cloud services with Windows Intune. Windows Intune helps you manage and secure personal computers and with the 30-day free trial you can use up to 25 computers. Windows Intune includes both the cloud service for PC management and security and upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise and future versions of Windows. You can remotely perform a number of... Read More
"Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said. According to U.K.'s High Court, Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs. However, the court order will neither influence the artists' pockets nor prevent users from accessing the site if they use proxy servers and other... Read More
As we have noted in a previous post all IPv6 Link-local Addresses (LLA) share the same network identifier (fe80::) hence, you can cannot determine which interface an LLA is bound to, if the computer has multiple network adapters connected to different network segments. In fact, it distinguishes the networks by using a numeric zone ID, following a percent sign after... Read More
Microsoft has released an update that resolves an issue with VIA multi-core CPUs. Windows Thin PC allows users to repurposing existing PCs as thin clients. It enables customers to repurpose existing PCs as thin clients by providing a smaller footprint, locked down version of Windows 7. This provides organizations with significant benefits such as, reduced end point costs for VDI,... Read More