Posts by Hasselhoffia

Microsoft slings bulked-up Windows Defender preview at world+dog

640 user here!

Tesla death smash probe: Neither driver nor autopilot saw the truck

Re: 74 mph, not in active control

Would this have happened if he had set the cruise control to 73mph? Or, just putting it out there, 65mph?

Azure's already a AU$50 million business in Australia

Are meeting the new aggressive targets the true reason they're slamming a whopping 26% price increase to Australian Microsoft Azure prices next month?:

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/578770/microsoft-makes-price-adjustments-azure-australia/

Perhaps hosting in Singapore Azure will become more economical? Europe's also getting hit, but only by 11%.

Out with the old: the end of Microsoft support can be your storage opportunity

Re: wat

... until you realise the Visual Foxpro derived application that uses that database uses some non-ansi query syntax that was deprecated in SQL 2005 and you've been running the database in SQL 2000 compatibility mode to make it work. Then you realise you've just migrated it to your nice shiny new SQL 2014 server and the lowest compatibility level that supports is SQL 2000. So in fact the latest SQL you can use is SQL 2008 R2, which isn't too bad but will eventually be a problem.

And then you find those SQL Reporting Services reports you have for your sales guys are using some code that was dropped in SQL 2008 so you're going to have to keep a 2005 SSRS around or get someone to rewrite a lot of them.

And you absolutely can share SAS storage between nodes, is what Storage Spaces on Windows 2012 R2 is generally built around.

Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2: Quick start guide for sysadmins

Alternatively you could investigate Active Directory Based Activation which was introduced with Windows 8/2012 and activates the client on Domain join. Will eventually replace the KMS services. You don't need to be running a W2012 domain, just have extended the AD schema using ADPrep.