Archive for February, 2008



08
Feb

WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1 released

WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1(SP1) was released yesterday. You can download it from here.

07
Feb

Vista: svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) always using 40-50% CPU

I’ve been using Vista for couple months now. It took me a while to make it run all or should I say most of my applications, but this time I got performace problem. I’m using laptop with 4GB of RAM and dual Core CPU. I’ve noticed that the performance is degraded and CPU fan turns on every often. In the task manager I see that CPU usage is always 50% even when the laptop is freshly rebooted and does not do anything. Continue reading ‘Vista: svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) always using 40-50% CPU’

07
Feb

HP: HP Introduces MSA2000

HP today introduced a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features that can help customers more effectively centralize storage to lower costs, increase administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime. (Read more)
Technical details of StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 2000 (MSA2000)

07
Feb

MOSS: Microsoft SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Released

Good tool to use before you start deploying MOSS. (Read more)

06
Feb

Server 2008: Editions of Server 2008 Explained

Good post for understanding the diferences between Server 2008 editions.

04
Feb

Server 2008: Windows Server 2008 RTMs

Windows Server 2008 released to manufacturers today.
(Read more)

04
Feb

Vista: Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx

01
Feb

HP: Negative pings ???

I’ve ran into interesting problem today wile configuring HP SIM. I found out that the network is not stable. So I started troubleshooting by pinging servers and this is what I’ve got.
negative ping
I have negative pings, which does not make sense. So the first thing that popped to my mind was firmware. After upgrading NIC firmware the problem disappeared.

The server is HP Proliant BL25p G2 and NIC is Broadcom NC737i