About Me
Rick Claus
Rick Claus engages with the worldwide Technical Community on behalf of Microsoft. Rick's role is to support platform awareness for Windows Server and skills development through special events targeting the broad community.
Technical areas of expertise from his 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry include: Windows Server, core infrastructure services, Virtualization technologies of all kinds, and systems management.
Unofficially, Rick is focused on spreading his enthusiasm, passion and excitement on all things technical to anyone who has the time for a coffee (or pint) and a chat (in English or français - naturellement).
Category Archives: Networking
How To: Change NIC binding order in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
An unexpected slowdown issue had me baffled a not too long ago with timeouts to online services, web surfing, network access – generally everything had delays in starting / connecting. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why. … Continue reading
Posted in How To, Networking, Windows 8, Windows Server 8
5 Comments
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V guest IOps and network portability demos
I have the good fortune of working with some great folks here at Microsoft HQ – some of which I have been following for quite some time. Last week at TechEd NorthAmerica Jeff Woolsey was on the main keynote stage … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Networking, Presentations, Server, TechEd, Windows Server 8
Leave a comment
Windows PC SCAM help via Microsoft Canada
Even though I moved to the “Mother Ship” here in Redmond back in January – I still get emails, texts, Tweets and Facebook Updates about someone who has had a relative / friend who has unfortunately been scammed by some … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tech, Microsoft, Networking, Security
Leave a comment
HowTo: Optimizing your Home Wireless Network
So now that we have Joey figured out in the last article – I got pinged by @kjb_Photography on twitter yesterday – asking about extending coverage in his home wireless networking environment. I could take the consultant answer easy out … Continue reading
Posted in Helpful Tech, How To, Networking, Troubleshooting
Tagged Extending WiFi, Routers, SSID, Wireless Networks
1 Comment
How to re-broadcast a public WiFi network
I was catching up with Joey the @AccordionGuy earlier today – chatting over coffee. He used to work on the same team as me at Microsoft before heading out on his next adventure. His current gig has him living in … Continue reading
