After I manually imported a few hotfixes and optional updates from Microsoft Update Catalog, I noticed that it takes quite times to download from Microsoft website. Is there any way to check the download status so you know when to expect they will be available to be deployed? The bad news is that there is no way to check download status […]
Via Windows Server Blog, This updated guide provides a comprehensive collection of technical articles with practical guidance for IT professionals and server administrators responsible for monitoring and tuning Windows Server 2016 across the most common server workloads and scenarios. With this guidance, administrators can tune server settings in Windows Server 2016 and achieve incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially […]
Some of the security updates released on June 13 have been causing quite a bit issues for Outlook, like this and this, for over a week. Finally, Microsoft released the fixes today to end this. But since they are the non-security update that only includes improvements, they were released as optional updates that may not be picked up by WSUS. […]
There are a few ways available to find out what version and edition of SQL Server you are running. SQL Server Management Studio Connect to the server you want to find out, right-click the server instance name and choose Properties. The product line tells what edition of SQL Server this is. It runs SQL Express version in this case. The […]
The network stack does several seemingly impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infrastructure, reassembling them in the correct order on the other side even if they arrived out of order. It […]
Spiceworks has a new series called Extreme IT and it has a pretty special topic in May just to honor the military sector and the work IT pros offered in that area. Quite interesting read. Here are some of the highlights: The differences between military and civilian IT In the military, the scale of IT is larger. In the military, the […]
A bit IT disaster hit British Airways past weekend and caused misery for tens of thousands of customers of the airline. Here are some of the resources collected by the guy that runs WServerNews newsletter. Quite a long list of materials to read: To begin with here are a few background news articles which may or not be relevant to […]
via Gizmodo: Computer specs can be a baffling mix of acronyms and numbers at the best of times, but it’s worth learning something about them: It’ll help you choose a new computer, troubleshoot your old computer, and generally understand more about the relationship between the specs on the page and the experience you’re getting. Such is the complexity of the […]