my world of IT

This time its the turn of Windows Update (powered by WSUS on Server 2008 R2) error 80244022 (sometimes seen as 8024402c). Had this error on my own Admin PC a few days ago while trying to run monthly updates, there is very little information about this error message out there however the main cause seems to be linked to the… Read more

Before I go much further into this article I will say – there is no one answer to how much power does a PC consume. You have to take into consideration the internal components (particularly the CPU and if the PC uses a HDD or SSD), the age of the PC, the efficacy of its PSU and also how far… Read more

Please Note – Microsoft have now confirmed that there will not be 3G/4G in the Surface through the complete specs which can be seen here. As the momentum builds for a midnight release of the Microsoft Surface (thanks to the Reg) Microsoft are still keeping very quiet about a lot of key things – most notably will it have a 3G/4G connectivity. Even… Read more

For a long time we’ve been using the built in features of Windows Server to allow users to recover their own work through the ‘Previous Versions’ tab in Windows Explorer (which works on the Volume Snapshot service) however the long term plan has been to get our DPM 2012 server to do the heavy lifting instead. When trying to extend… Read more

Buying powerful PCs pre built is all so well and good but the fun comes in when you build them yourself! That’s just what we have done at work with some media suite PCs which use 6 core processors, modular PSUs and all other kinds of fun things – full specs and photos to come after the video.

Ok I’ll admit this is a pretty weird thing to do a review on a PoE injector but its one of those things that I wish I had to reference when I was first looking at these. First things first if you are looking for a basic PoE injector that can run power at about 15W max then this injector… Read more

They have blinky light parties! (click to see bigger pictures)

Its looking like we got our sizing for our custom RDS servers right and we may well have answered (at least for own internal use) ‘how many users can you get on a RDS server?’. The video shows our RDS farm under normal load with 24 clients remotely logged in (excluding the admin session I was using) with the CPU… Read more

For quite some time now I’ve been a tad baffled about why the correct homepage settings are not being applied to users through group policy on first time login on recently deployed PCs. Quite often instead of reaching our intranet they are just greeted with the about:blank page. A gpupdate /force fixes the issue quickly however naturally this is not… Read more

A few days ago a interesting problem cropped up with a WordPress website that I maintain for a 3rd party, the error occurred every time I tried up upload a file to the site using the fantastic WP-DownloadManager plugin and was saying… Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/admin.php on this server. After trying a few possible solutions .htaccess (all… Read more