On a Dell server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Dell RAID with the latest Dell updates you may see a warning about: “Driver version is out of date.” – Firmware Version 5B2D Driver Version 6.46.2.32 Storport Driver Version 5.2.3790.4021 Minimum Required Storport Driver Version 5.2.3790.4173 – This warning is dues to the Microsoft StorPort … Read more
We have found a really annoying and recurring problem on some of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. The Hyper-V virtual machines will not start after a reboot. You cannot create or mount virtual drives in Disk Management. The problem seems to randomly appear after a reboot. The problem also appears to be … Read more
How to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. I have been asked a lot of questions about how to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem is you can go into the … Read more
7-Zip is an excellent open source compression utility similar to WinZip and WinRar. 7-Zip has excellent compression and supports many different compressed file types. 7-Zip was the winner of the SourceForge.net 2007 community choice awards for “Technical Design” and for “Best Project” 7-Zip can be downloaded from http://www.7-zip.org/ We recommend using the MSI install versions. … Read more
Enhance security by making files and folders hidden from users who do not have permission. Normally files and folders that reside in a folder or share the users have access to will be visible. When the user attempts to access the restricted resource, the user will get an access denied error. By implementing … Read more