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Windows Server 2008 just aged me 10 years in 10 minutes
Last night I logged into work from home to initiate a reboot of all the servers. Windows Updates were pending, and had been pending for about a week, but it’s hard to reboot production servers in the...
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I never did get those 10 years back…
Last month I posted about an error in Windows Server 2008 that caused me to age 10 years in 10 minutes. Over a month later, I finally “fixed” that server—I re-installed Windows on it. You can stop...
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Wrestling with applications in MDT 2010
I started out the task flying pretty high. I worked on a deployment for some new HP laptops and Windows 7 Pro x64 and things were working out as planned. Once I got it to where I could PXE boot the...
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Do you believe in miracles? Divers Supply Grand Cayman rights a wrong after...
It took almost five years. Coincidentally that’s the length of the warranty I was trying to get it repaired under, but finally, something was done. There was a management change at Divers Supply Grand...
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Classics NEVER get old…
You know what I like about taking Part Time Studies computer classes at BCIT at night? The crowd is a little older, and they’re all already nerds. I’m taking COMP1451 this semester, which is part...
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Why doesn’t it work??
Last year I set up a Windows Server 2008 Core server. It was a Hyper-V virtual machine, it was minimum-spec, it didn’t do much other than be a second Domain Controller on the network so I hardly ever...
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Surely there’s a reason why this “new” version of Exchange...
Absolutely there is… and stop calling me Shirley. Importing and exporting mailboxes is a pretty basic function, yeah? Take for example, hosted Exchange. Exchange in the cloud. Makes you feel light,...
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Cleaning up a Hyper-V host’s hard drive of AVHD files
Well this is interesting. First of all, do not move any vhd or avhd files around, whether your guest VM is running or not. I came back from a week’s vacation to find that my VMs were pretty much all...
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HP Microservers & MS DirectAccess
First post of the new year! also can't be arsed to install WL Writer so doing this in the web form. blech. :) One of my "projects" for 2012 is to suss out DirectAccess, a transparent "VPN-less" secure...
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Installing Windows 8 on an ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A
Because this is such a freaky situation, I felt compelled to come and actually post an item on this dusty old blog because I know I'm not the only person out there who tried to install it using the...
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