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  • I’ve written a book. The full details of the book are featured here – http://adminguide.ws2012e.us You can download a sample of the book here – http://www.powerbiz.net.au/files/BookSample.pdf It has been a drawn out process, and I now appreciate the effort it takes to …

  • This post serves as a starting point for my series of posts on the new feature called Hyper-V Replica. Windows Server 2012 HyperV Replica Scenarios for Small Business http://blog.powerbiz.net.au/hyperv/windows-server-2012-hyperv-replica-scenarios-for-small-business/ In this post, I examine the various scenarios where a small …

  • Don’t let the unassuming simple look and feel of the start up fool you. Windows Server 2012 is a robust, full featured server platform capable of powering the world’s largest datacentres and also small business single server organizations. Read about …

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Optimise Windows 7 with SSD drives

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Jakub at www.klaslo.com has posted a blog on how to optimise Windows 7 when installed on SSD drives. He lists 9 tweaks that

How to Turn off Printer Redirection for Remote Desktop Sessions on a Hyper-V Server Host

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If you use Remote Desktop Services to connect to your Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Host, one of the best practices tasks that

Http://Connect shows a 404 – File or directory not found error page

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Http://connect is used in Small Business Server and Windows Server Essentials to configure and join client computers to the

How to set up an Internal SMTP Service for Windows Server 2012 Essentials

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials does not come with Microsoft Exchange Server as its predecessor Small Business Server 2011

WSUS for WS2012 Essentials is available

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Microsoft have just released a hotfix that allows the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) role to be enabled. This hotfix

Downgrading Windows Server 2012 OEM

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A little known fact about Windows Server 2012 (WS2012) Standard and Datacentre editions is the fact that you can run these

I have received the Microsoft MVP Award for the fourth year

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I have just been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for the fourth year. I am honoured to receive this award and to continue to help

Major Attack on Spamhaus

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A massive attack on the largest anti-spam blacklist provider happened overnight -

Where is the Temporary Outlook Folder *UPDATE*

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I am updating this post for Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. The original post covering previous versions of outlook can be

Stop Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 from automatically rebooting the server after logging in

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One of the recent issues in managing Windows Server 2012 is the way Automatic Updates works by default. If automatic updates