George Chetcuti’s Blog

Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts

With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.

9 Command-line
168 General
46 Implementation
27 Monitoring
299 News
99 Products
99 Security
5 Troubleshooting
16 Virtualization
  1. Dell introduces a new Big Data Retention solution

    The new Dell Big Data Retention solution is designed for organizations that leverage big data analytics to derive business value from their data. The solution integrates with existing analytics platforms as a frontend big data repository for large datasets or a backend archive. It can also serve as a standalone repository or as an analytics platform with Hadoop. According to... Read More

  2. Dell launches its next generation servers

    Dell announced a full portfolio of 12th Generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimized to run mission-critical business applications. Dell designed and built its 12th Generation servers with input from more than 7,700 customer conversations in 17 countries across four continents – focusing on their needs for innovation to deliver business results faster. The new Dell PowerEdge servers work... Read More

  3. Dell to acquire Wyse Technology

    Dell will be acquiring the cloud-computing software provider Wyse Technology. Dell will expand its desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new market opportunities for the full range of its enterprise solutions and services. "Desktop virtualization can help organizations streamline IT management, improve productivity and security, and increase cost efficiency for discrete workloads or usage scenarios. The Wyse Technology desktop virtualization capability... Read More

  4. Deploy Windows Workstations from a reference image

    Image deployment from a Network Share... Read More

  5. Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 in the Cloud

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in the AWS Cloud: Planning & Implementation Guide... Read More

  6. Deploying Printers using Group Policy

    To deploy shared printers to multiple client computers in a domain environment, the fastest method is using a Group Policy. Follow these steps: In Server Manager, select Roles\Print and Document Services\Print Management\Print Servers\<Server Name>\Printers and in the details pane, right-click the printer, and then choose Deploy with Group Policy. - if the Print and Document Services node is not available,... Read More

  7. Develop apps using Windows Kinect capabilities!

    Microsoft released beta 2 of Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0 which includes drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human tracking, documentation and resource materials. With Kinect for Windows SDK developers can create rich experiences by using the sensor technology on computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8. Kinect is a motion sensing input device for the Xbox 360... Read More

  8. Develop your first Tizen application!

    Tizen is an open source software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs, and more. Tizen will offer an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device. The Tizen platform works on the Linux kernel... Read More

  9. Development of new electronics based on molecules!

    Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new nano-technology platform for the development of molecule-based electronic components using the wonder material graphene. Read more - http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=24231.php... Read More

  10. Dfsutil command

    Configuring or monitoring DFS in Windows 2008 environments is a task that normally gets invoked from the Server Manager console and aided by a corresponding wizard as you can see in this post. However, you can use the DFSUtil command to manage DFS from a command prompt or script. In addition, to troubleshoot DFS from the command line, you can... Read More