Glo Networks Technical Blog (Glo Blog) » windows http://blog.glo-networks.com Glo Networks team sharing their technical experiences and thoughts. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:57:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Glo Backup – Announcement http://blog.glo-networks.com/2009/06/01/glo-backup-announcement/ http://blog.glo-networks.com/2009/06/01/glo-backup-announcement/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:00:16 +0000 Chris http://blog.glo-net.net/?p=159 jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout('loadFBShareMe_159()',5000); });

glo-net-logo_03Glo Networks are about to launch their new online backup solution. In the past we’ve used and resold solutions by some of the worlds biggest players but always found their costs and feature set clashing.

How would you like a fully managed backup for your desktop with 10GB of data for under £13 per month ?

More info later this week ….

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windows-server-2008Windows 2008 and Vista SP2 is out and coming to a Windows Update near you soon.

There are no new features to get excited about just a huge list of security and bug fixes for the operating systems. We’ve been running the Beta and then the RC (Release Candidate) for quite some time on various PCs and servers. They’ve been stable and we have now installed the full service pack on most of our machines. No problems spotted so far so, get to it everyone.

A spreadsheet of all the included fixes can be found at this direct Microsoft link.

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Microsoft have released an update for Windows Vista with SP1, KB952709 is marked as a Reliability and performance update with a whole list of fixes such as -

  • Windows Vista SP1-based computers by reducing the number of crashes that may be caused by the Apple QuickTime thumbnail preview in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

You can find the full list of fixes Here along with the update for 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows Vista SP1

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For some time now we’ve had an issue at some customers sites that their servers don’t auto assign a drive letter to a USB drive when added. This is a bit of a pain as some customers use USB HDs for backups, so each time they change them we need to connect in and mount them with the right drive letter.
There is a fix :) –

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and DataCenter Edition do not assign drive letters to new fixed drives (USB and Firewire disks are usually ‘fixed’). This is up to the administrator because otherwise SAN (Storage Area Network) drives might be mounted accidentally.
This feature is called AutoMount and can be enabled by means of the DiskPart tool: Open a commandprompt, enter diskpart, on the DiskPart prompt enter automount to see the current state or automount enable to enable it.

Courtesy of uwe-sieber.

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