Monthly Archive: February 2012

Feb 24

Microsoft’s Private Cloud – Download, Explore, and Get Rewarded ($20 Microsoft Store Credit Promo Code)

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Looking to learn more about the Microsoft Private Cloud environment?  The following link below gives you a great opportunity to explore the Microsoft Private Cloud without having a full test environment setup. http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-us/MicrosoftPrivateCloudOffer/ Just a brief overview taken from the Microsoft Private Cloud page: “A new model for IT delivery.  It turns a datacenter’s infrastructure …

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Feb 16

Apple to go head to head against Windows 8 release

Windows 8 Source: Microsoft For a few months now, windows 8 developer preview has been out and showing off a completely different “Metro” theme appearance for the new OS coming out this year.  With a large new feature list coming out, it’s no question; Microsoft is trying to take their operating system in a different …

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Feb 15

Equallogic: PS Series Firmware 5.2.1 Now Available

Equallogic recently released a new update to their PS series firmware on 2/8/12 to version 5.2.1.  There are some new enhancements and fixes in this firmware that I know are some big fixes for updates that have been problems on other versions of the more later firmware updates. I know I have been running into …

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Feb 13

Hyper-V: Random Virtual Machine Timeouts? KB2263829 Fix Solves Issue

Have you recently had trouble with a VM at random times losing its network connection?  On one of our Server 2008 R2 SP1 hosts, all other VMs would work great on this host, but one virtual machine would on a weekly basis timeout.  This host had normal network connections, iSCSI connections to an Equallogic storage array …

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Feb 13

Modifying Wallpaper in Windows 7 in Domain Environment via Group Policy

Do you deploy a wallpaper via Group Policy? Do you usually store the wallpaper in the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper location? While this worked perfectly for Windows XP, when Windows 7 rolled out, it seemed to not be the same case with Windows 7. You would still place your wallpaper .jpg in that location, but it seems like …

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Feb 12

Welcome!

Welcome to jeffnaperski.com! This is a website geared towards posts, resolutions, and discussions in technology including: Windows Hyper-V Exchange Dell Equallogic Cisco Apple Any Other Top Network Trends This information is also provided on the about page where you will get a much better idea on what the site has to offer. Some things to …

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