Unable to browse server with IP Address

Just had this very annoying issue with a customer still running Windows 2003, they had changed the default gateway on a server, and then they could browse to a share using the IP Address, no problem with the server name. Naturally the application that needed to access the share needed it to be an IP ...

How snapshots work in Hyper-V 1

The ability to do snapshots in Hyper-V, or in any virtualisation product is in my opinion is awesome, gone are the days of before you applied any patches to your server or applications, you had to make sure that you had done decent backup, apply the patches and hope you don’t have to restore from ...

What is VSS?

So what is VSS? or to give it its full name “Volume Shadow Copy Service”. It first appeared in Windows XP, and is a Windows Based Service that allows you and backup applications to create a consistent copy of your data on a Volume, that can then be used to protect the data on that ...

How to Protect your Windows File System

At the end of the day it is access to their files users want and if they get corrupted/deleted or just plain messed up they will be looking for you to get them back ASAP. You can build up how you protect your filesystems in layers, each giving you more protection and ease of restoration ...