Disk performance information missing on Windows 2012 R2 – Blast from the past!

Recently, I replaced a disk in my iScsi NAS. Since I wasn’t using any RAID on the disk I was replacing, I decided to copy data from old volume to […]

Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 2

In Part 1, I provided with walk through of how to install DHCP and configure scope on your newly installed DHCP server. In this post, we are going to setup […]

Step-by-Step Configure DHCP Failover with 2012 R2 – Part 1

Many times in my past years of IT, I wanted to have DHCP load balancing and high availability. It was possible by creating non-overlapping scopes etc. but that was all […]

Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, we discussed how you can route between VMs on same host using networks connected to “Internal” virtual switch. Now let’s look at how to […]

Routing for Hyper-V Lab – Part 1

Most of us IT Pros usually have a lab of some kind. Mostly running some form of virtualization and if you are Microsoft savvy, chances are you are running Hyper-V […]

Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012

Note: Article updated to reflect changes as of February 2016 Installing WordPress on Windows Servers have been a challenge for me in the past. Mostly because of my ignorance to […]

Error: 0x800f0906 Adding GUI features on Windows Server 2012 Core

I have always preferred to have least amount of overhead possible when running Server workloads. For the same reason my Hyper-V lab infrastructure is configured to run Windows Server 2012 […]

VAMT unable to connect to wmi service on remote machine

If you are Microsoft’s volume license customer or an MSDN subscriber, the question of tracking usage of your volume license activation may have surfaced. You may already know what Volume […]

Enterprise Root CA Web Enrollment – RTFM, but what if I didn’t?

I was building Enterprise Root CA in my lab and was in rush so ofcourse, I did not read the fabulous manual and went forward with installing the Enterprise Root […]

Exctrlst.exe – The case of missing Performance Coutners

Recently I wrote about how to fix Corrupt of Missing Performance Coutners on a Windows Server. If you read the KB Article mentioned, it may sound complicated. One of the […]