Windows 8

KB2990170 – MPIO Identifies Different Disks As The Same Disk

September 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Microsoft posted a fix for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 for when multipath I/O identifies different disks as the same disk in Windows. Symptoms The code in Microsoft Windows that [...]

An Old Post Of Mine On Ballmer That Makes Interesting Reading

August 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

I’ve just re-read a post I wrote in 2010 about the future of Steve Ballmer. My two topics of focus were Windows Phone 7 (released that day) and the lack of a Windows tablet at the time. I thought WinPho would struggle behind iOS and Android, mainly because of apps. I was not wrong. Things have [...]

Microsoft News Summary – 26 August 2014

August 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

I know very few businesses deployed Windows 8, but any "upgrade" that requires a wipe & replace is not a service pack. However, that’s what Microsoft now thinks, and that’s had an impact on the Windows 8 support policy. Someone in Redmond needs a quick kick in the nether [...]

Microsoft Fraks Up Patches AGAIN

August 18, 2014 // 3 Comments

I’m sick of this BS. Microsoft is investigating behavior in which systems may crash with a 0x50 Stop error message (bugcheck) after any of the following updates are installed: 2982791 MS14-045: Description of the security update for kernel-mode drivers: August 12, 2014 2970228 Update to support [...]

Microsoft News Summary – 17 July 2014

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

This week’s Microsoft news has been dominated by the cryptic letter by Satya Nadella and the pending (and obviously required) layoffs after the completion Nokia acquisition. Let’s stick to the techie stuff: Windows Azure Pack – Active Directory Design Choices: A post on design considerations [...]

KB2927313–Hyper- VM Won’t Start Because The Security ID Structure Is invalid (0x80070539)

April 28, 2014 // 1 Comment

Microsoft posted a new support article for when a virtual machine cannot start – The security ID structure is invalid (0x80070539). This affects Hyper-V on WS2012, WS2012 R2, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Symptoms Starting an imported virtual machine under Hyper-V sometimes fails with an error [...]

KB2918371 – Scheduled Backup Of Hyper-V Fails With Event ID 517 & Error 0x80780049

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

This new article from Microsoft refers to “Windows Server Backup running on the host operating system”, but I cannot say if this issue affects third party backup tools, DPM or not. REPEAT: DO NOT ASK ME – ASK MICROSOFT. Very often Microsoft has a bad habit of stating that a backup fix is for [...]

KB2908783 – Data Corruption Occurs On iSCSI LUNs In Windows

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another niche scenario bug is fixed in this update by Microsoft, affecting the following Windows versions/editions: Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012 Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Windows 8, Windows Server [...]

KB2928127 – Supported File Paths For Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage

February 11, 2014 // 6 Comments

I am pretty particular about where I store virtual machine files. I STRONGLY DISLIKE the default storage paths of Hyper-V. I use 3 options: Local storage: Virtual hard disks and virtual machine files go into D:Virtual Machines<VM Name> CSV: Virtual hard disks and virtual machine files go into [...]

KB2846340 – Duplicate Friendly Names Of NICs Displayed In Windows

January 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

This KB applies to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 up to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. There’s no mention of Hyper-V, but considering that hosts have lots of NICs, it seemed relevant to me. The scenario is when duplicate friendly names of network adapters are displayed in Windows. [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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