Firstly sorry for the long delay in posting it has been nearly a year since my last blog post and I am assuming this is going to be written for the pure benefit of myself and google analytics. Its been so long because I have been kept busy by Serco and the Lincolnshire CC account.
Continue reading “Antivirus Software”P2V Deployments
P2V Deployments – This is a brief outline of the steps required to perform a successful P2V (Physical to Virtual) migration. Whilst this is generally for the use of VMWare converter using a VMWare ESX host. The following steps for Hyper-V and other Server or non-server virtualisation products. I will not go into the full details of how the converter works as this can be found readily on the internet.
Continue reading “P2V Deployments”Installing and configuring your WDS Server
After yesterday’s post, it really fired me up to do a few more of the old projects, even though my old formatting and typing as well as the information being somewhat out of date I thought I would still go over it and publish it rather than it sitting on the deepest depths of the NAS in a folder labelled “OLD PROJECTS”. Whilst WDS is one of the longest documents I have ever written its still a fascinating piece of underused and unloved technology that has matured over time and is great for deploying Windows Servers and Desktops.
Continue reading “Installing and configuring your WDS Server”Windows Deployment Server (WDS)
Windows Deployment Server – With all the talk of the Brexit and the unfortunate conclusion, the fear of the new beginnings I thought I would take a break from reading the news and listening to the political ramblings of the masses, and have a throwback Thursday and rehash some of my projects, this to re-write them so that they no longer look like the original and to anonymise the project paperwork so that the original client cannot be discovered.
Continue reading “Windows Deployment Server (WDS)”Stopping the Windows 10 Upgrade
I’ve had a few customer computers in recently with the issues of Windows 10 upgrade, either it being the upgrade Nag screen or the forced install of Windows 10 onto the customers computer, luckily all the customers have either ignored the Nag screen or managed to get the computer to me within 30 days of the computer being forcefully upgraded. Furthermore, it has in one instance added 4Gb of downloads to a customers download cap, though sneakily downloading the install files in the background, even during Windows Updates it doesn’t show the download of 4Gb, something that I have witnessed first hand in my lab environment.
Continue reading “Stopping the Windows 10 Upgrade”Upgrading a Non SSD Late 2014 Mac Mini to Fusion Drive
Introduction
Upgrading a Non-SSD Late 2014 Mac Mini to Fusion Drive. Today I have a little treat for you and hopefully, it will save you a little money in the process, although to be honest if you bought the Hard Disk version of the Late 2014 Mac Mini, you will probably be thinking that the little powerhouse is not really that great.
Continue reading “Upgrading a Non SSD Late 2014 Mac Mini to Fusion Drive”How to speed up your slow internet part 3
Introduction
In Part 2 and Part 3 of this series we focused a lot on the Unix and Macintosh side of things, in Part 1 we touched on using a Windows based computer as a proxy and in Part 2 we focussed heavily on the updates side of Apple devices. In this final part of the series I am going to show you how you can decrease your bandwidth usage as well as speed up your Internet by using a WSUS server (Windows Server Update Service). Continue reading “How to speed up your slow internet part 3”
Using a Mac without a Screen
Introduction
One of the recent comments on my blog was, “can you run a mac mini without a screen and keyboard”.
From this I had forgotten to blog about something that I had used for ages but had neglected to show the basics, assuming that all people will know about this and so this blog is just a quick and simple demonstration of how to setup “Screen Sharing” on a Mac and I assume that you are new to the Mac ecosystem, it has also been a quick relearn for myself as well as I had forgotten some things that I really should have secured when I set up the new Mac 5 months ago 🙂 Continue reading “Using a Mac without a Screen”
How to speed up your slow internet Part 2
OK so last time we looked at the three main things that you can do to speed up your internet, and went in-depth with the proxy server, which is great if you want to speed up general browsing and internet usage, it does a great job at that, but what about all those updates that you have to download every single month, application, digital subscriptions and system updates all sap your bandwidth and if you are on a usage cap this can also have a detrimental effect on this as well, the last Apple OSX update was 5Gb in size, we have here 5 physical and now a virtual Mac for testing, this would mean that the total downloads from apple just for that one update would have been 30Gb with each of the devices downloading it separately to put that into perspective this would have been 30% of our satellite broadband usage for the month. This doesn’t include the upgrades that are needed for the applications on the Mac’s, nor does it include the OS updates for IOS for the phones and tablet PC’s as well as their application upgrades, in total this would have been closer to 50Gb of downloaded content just to keep everything updated. Yes I said would have been, you see for the last couple of years I have been running Mac Server application which turns my Mac mini into a fully-fledged server (ok so its not going to turn you into a sys admin overnight but….) for only an extra £15, one of the things that I use the server app for is the caching server.
Continue reading “How to speed up your slow internet Part 2”How to speed up your slow Internet Part 1
If like me you have been left out in the digital revolution that is the fibre broadband rollout, or have a lot of things going on connected to the internet all wanting updates then you will know this can suck your connection speed and pleasure out of the 21st century.
Continue reading “How to speed up your slow Internet Part 1”