posted by steve | Category: Microsoft & Closed Source | 1 Comment »

Attempting to add the DirectAccess role to a Windows Server 2012 domain controller today and kept receiving “There may be a version mismatch between this computer and the destination server or VHD”. I unchecked the Remote Access role and moved to the Features screen, went back to the Roles screen and checked Remote Access again and it worked. I think those are the steps. Some combination of back and forth in the Add Roles and [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Microsoft & Closed Source

I had occasion to set up Windows Server 2008 onto a VMware Server recently. Install went fine, choosing the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise profile. Only problem was that there was no network. I ended up editing the .vmx configuration file and adding the line: Ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″ That seemed to solve it. So, if you have network problems with Windows Server 2008 under VMware Server, that might solve it for you too.

posted by steve | Category: Microsoft & Closed Source

A headline around the Internets today read “Firefox Growth Slowing”. Here’s a link to one of the articles. This headline got me thinking about another product with slow, actually almost no growth, namely Microsoft’s IIS web server. The IIS web server enjoys only about a 20% market share according to Netcraft’s Web Server Survey. This share is hardly increasing at all, and in fact has decreased in previous months. To be fair, Apache’s web server, [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Microsoft & Closed Source

Folks out of Redmond have been talking more than normal about the advantages of Microsoft’s security and track record. Witness the statements from Microsoft’s Chief of Security in this article in Information Week and Bill Gates himself speaking about security in an interview with the BBC. With these statements in mind, a reader might assume that Microsoft is responding to vulnerabilities quickly in order to ensure that their customers are protected. However, a cursory glance [...Read more...]