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Converting Fixed Size VHDs to Dynamic Sized VHDs
I was called in to help a company recently with a small Hyper-V environment. They created a 2TB VHD file (they had good reasons for not using .vhdx files, but the steps in this article will work for both versions). They realized that they had unnecessarily created the drive as a 2TB Fixed Size disk…
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End Of Days 2003: The End is Nigh!
In a couple of days we will be saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year 2015. Simple math should show you that if you are still running Windows Server 2003, it is long since time to upgrade. However here’s more: When I was a Microsoft MVP, and then when I was a…
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Sharing Passwords
This is NOT an article about my mother. She just happens to be the person at the other end of this conversation, but it could have been any house guest. My mother has been staying with me for the past few days. It is the first time she has stayed with me, and it has…
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A VMware Gripe
Okay, I can’t delete a file. Any Level 1 systems administrator would look at this message and say: ‘Okay, VMware is not allowing me to delete an ISO file. Very likely the ISO file is connected to a virtual machine.’ Ummm… but WHICH virtual machine is it? Gee thanks, vCenter, I have scores of VMs……
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2014: No growth, but no shrinkage.
I want to thank you all, the great readers of The World According to Mitch. 2013 was a year of huge growth for my blog. I spent the first few months with Microsoft, and so I was cross-posting all of my blogs from there to here (and vice-versa). The last four months of the year…
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Offline File Cache Nightmares Resolved
Off-line files are a wonderful thing. The fact that my users can synchronize the files from a central server (where they are backed up) to their laptop is great. But what happens when things get out of hand? In theory, users can save a lot more onto a file server than they can their local…
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Folder Redirection: Where’d these warnings come from?
Congratulations. You have decided to implement a Folder Redirection policy on your domain. There are real advantages to this, not the least of which is that all of your users’ profile folders will get backed up centrally… and that when they change computers their files and settings are just there. You have created a Group…
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: This month I had lunch with Sharon Bennett, a veteran of the IT industry and blogger.? We discussed a number of topics relating to both technology and community… I asked her a ton of questions, and the one that got me the most intriguing answer was: ‘What…
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Do IT Remotely
A few days ago I was in with my boss and he asked me to perform a particular bit of maintenance during off-hours. ‘Just come into the office tonight after Taekwondo and do it… it shouldn’t take you very long.’ He was right, and I almost did… and then I remembered that in 2014 there…
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Drinking When I Need A Drink…
I made a decision several years ago. I decided that any time that I said ‘I need a drink’ I would not have one. I would not use alcohol to solve my problems, reduce my stress, make my life easier. Why? Because from what I could tell that is one of the easiest ways to…
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I Feel Fat.
I woke up this morning and waddled into the washroom. I couldn’t believe how big I felt. I must have gained 20lbs. I looked at the scale with fear and loathing. I have been called a lot of names in the past, but never a coward. I stepped onto the little crappy appliance that was…
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A Brief Explanation…
Yesterday I posted a blog article that was taken down after a few minutes. It read: ‘Now do you believe that I am who I say I am?’ As soon as I realized that it was pushed out to Facebook, Twitter, and all of my followers I took it down. Nevertheless, I have been asked…
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Comments
The vast majority of comments to any blog I would expect are spam engines. That is why I make sure that every comment gets approved before you see it. However I do check all of my comments (or at least, those that the Spam engines do not catch) and post them immediately… even if I…
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1,200 Japanese workers convert above-ground train to subway line in a matter of hours
I found Japan to be among the most organized places I have ever been. I am not going to say that everything is efficient – there were a lot of ridiculous wastes that I discovered. However when they want to get things done, that is a country that knows how to do it. I spent…
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