Says it all really.
Wednesday 14 November 2012
McAfee doesn't trust McAfee
This happened to me today and well see for yourself. McAfee web gateway doesn't trust its own site.
Says it all really.
Says it all really.
Upgrading to Windows 8
Well that was more complex than it should have been.
Windows firewall stops the "Windows 8 upgrade advisor" from connecting to the internet and there appears to be no information regarding which servers/ports are required (a trace answered these questions) but this is a surprisingly long list.
Once Windows was upgraded it then couldn't be activated (again Windows Firewall prevented it). Kudos for actually having the firewall work but please document what should be done to allow activation to succeed.
In short lots of playing with the firewall and then it was sorted, if Microsoft had created new groups for Windows 8 firewall this would have been a whole lot smoother.
On the other hand the other machine I also upgraded which didn't have the outbound firewall enabled worked like a charm.
I have to say though I like Windows 8, I'm running it in possibly the worst way, two monitors (so I always see desktop andMetro Modern UI but what it brings to novel.
People complained when the Start button was introduced, this is no different.
Windows firewall stops the "Windows 8 upgrade advisor" from connecting to the internet and there appears to be no information regarding which servers/ports are required (a trace answered these questions) but this is a surprisingly long list.
Once Windows was upgraded it then couldn't be activated (again Windows Firewall prevented it). Kudos for actually having the firewall work but please document what should be done to allow activation to succeed.
In short lots of playing with the firewall and then it was sorted, if Microsoft had created new groups for Windows 8 firewall this would have been a whole lot smoother.
On the other hand the other machine I also upgraded which didn't have the outbound firewall enabled worked like a charm.
I have to say though I like Windows 8, I'm running it in possibly the worst way, two monitors (so I always see desktop and
People complained when the Start button was introduced, this is no different.
Monday 17 September 2012
Server 2012 - Adding the GUI to Core
There are a number of articles you can find on the web which tell you how to do this. Unfortunately they all assume you started with the full fat server and subsequently removed the GUI or are otherwise incomplete in some way. I hope this will provide a step-by-step guide to adding the GUI to Server 2012 which started life as Core.
1. Find your copy of Windows 2012 or at least the install.wim.
2. Create a folder to mount a wim file in, eg c:\source
3. Run dism.exe /mount-wim /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim /index:2 /mountdir:c:\source /readonly (the index in this case is the standard full server image, 1 is core).
4. Sit back and wait.
5. Run dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:ServerCore-FullServer /featurename:Server-Gui-Shell /featurename:Server-Gui-Mgmt /source:c:\source\windows\winsxs
6. Sit back and wait even longer than before.
7. Reboot when prompted
8. Enjoy the GUI
1. Find your copy of Windows 2012 or at least the install.wim.
2. Create a folder to mount a wim file in, eg c:\source
3. Run dism.exe /mount-wim /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim /index:2 /mountdir:c:\source /readonly (the index in this case is the standard full server image, 1 is core).
4. Sit back and wait.
5. Run dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:ServerCore-FullServer /featurename:Server-Gui-Shell /featurename:Server-Gui-Mgmt /source:c:\source\windows\winsxs
6. Sit back and wait even longer than before.
7. Reboot when prompted
8. Enjoy the GUI
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