Dec 15 2012
robocopy is a tool that copies files but more interestingly, it lets you synchronize data from a server (or a NAS) to another Windows server. It is provided with the Windows 2003 Server resource kit tools or natively in Windows 2008 Server and above.Synchronization takes little bandwidth with Robocopy and can be a good way […]
Dec 04 2012
Converting a physical Windows 2003 Server to a Hyper-v virtual machine with disk2vhd tool may throw the following generic error on a black screen on boot: Needless to say Windows is not even starting.I tried to repair Windows with a 2003 server image, fixmbr, fixboot, and they all failed.The Master Boot Record needs to be […]
Apr 16 2012
Your Excel files on remote networks take up to 2 minutes to load? You think there’s something wrong with your VPN or you need to tune Office? Not at all, here’s how to load your files in just a few seconds! I couldn’t understand why my remote files were so slow to open from a Windows […]
Dec 07 2011
You can easily concatenate ascii or binary files with the Windows command prompt using COPY: Where dest is the destination filename
Feb 23 2011
I’ve noticed backups are getting slower and slower over time going from 500 to 2500MB/min throughput. I run backups on 2 dedicated RAID0 disks hosted on a iSCSI MSA array first, and duplicate them on tapes. Since I want to use the same array for a new database project, I want to measure and tune […]