Monthly Archives: January 2009


Windows 7 Impressions Continued

Today I took the plunge and installed W7 on another partition at work, now that the MS Employee posted the RSAT for the public beta. I was rather impressed at the speed at which it performed. Also interesting is the new take on ADUC, called ADAC (Administration Center). I couldn’t […]


Official Windows 7 Impressions

The official Windows 7 Beta has started.  Friday was a bit frustrating as the response overwhelmed Microsoft, but I was able to get a Windows 7 Beta key, as well as download the real ISO.  Upon installing it, I had some mixed reactions to the new task bar.  Maybe it […]


Disaster Recovery and Backups

Our organization has a network of distributed servers connected mostly by leased-line T-1’s. Over the past 24 hours, a ton of rain has fallen and by the time the emergency team organized and declared several remote sites in danger, it was too late: We were told the best we could […]