I’m sure that many of you will have the same experience we have with our clients when they tell us that they fail to see the value in regular maintenance of their computers. More specifically most clients in the small business space think that if the computer is running fine then why should they touch it? Typically it’s these same clients that will have their cars … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
How NOT to get a job!
This week has been an interesting week. Yesterday I walked out of a job interview we had with a potential staff member after 21 minutes. In 15 years, I’ve never done that before. I don’t know who was more surprised, Ryan, our CEO or David, our Service Manager – but the candidate certainly realised he made a mistake when I did. What did he do that was so … [Read more...]
PowerShell Tip #3 – Filtering Output
When you issue PowerShell commands you can get quite a bit of information back from it. Last weeks tip showed how to format the output and to do a very basic filter to show specific columns only. Today we’ll be a little more specific. Lets say that I wanted to list all the processes on a computer where the Process Name begins with svc* – this is how I would … [Read more...]
Have you said Thank You today?
Too often in the busy world we live in, we forget the simple things in life. Simple things include saying a heartfelt “Thank You” for something that has been done for you makes so much difference to a persons day. I recently helped a friends father out – he was about to purchase a copy of Windows XP from a local computer market as he needed it for his older … [Read more...]
Hyper-V Clusters and iSCSI
If you like me have little experience with Hyper-V, Clustering and iSCSI, then you will appreciate how much “fun” we can have in getting it all working. Thankfully, I stumbled across this blog post from Ben Armstrong and a further blog from Aidan Finn with detailed step by step guide on how to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target to create a Hyper-V cluster. If you … [Read more...]