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Windows Imaging Checklist
We all use and love (may be a bit presumptuous here) imaging workstations. After all it saves us as system administrators countless hours of time, or at least we hope so. However, as with any good technology, without proper planning,…
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Logging off remote desktop kills user processes
A mistake that is commonly made by Jr. admins is logging off a remote desktop session to a server after initiating a user driven process or program. In seeing this mistake made countless times by admins who just haven’t had…
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Uninstalling Exchange 2010 Management Tools – Some Controls are not valid
Recently, we had a workstation that we wanted to upgrade from Exchange 2010 RTM version of the management tools to the Exchange 2010 SP1 version of the tools. In running the uninstall on the workstation, we had the error, “Microsoft…
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Windows 2008 Server R2 Functional Level Features
As Microsoft introduces new servers OS’s, there is usually the option to raise your Forst Functional Level as well as the Domain Functional Level once all server side domain controllers have been upgraded to the latest and greatest server OS. …
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Set Default Printer Based on Location
If you are an administrator and you are looking for an easy way to set the default printer based on the location a user logs on, this is possible with a login script and a simple registry file to be…
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Styling of New Dell Servers and Racks
I wanted to post some pictures of the new rack a client received in yesterday noting the styling of the Dell enterprise badging and modified look of their enterprise hardware. Note the picture below of the new Dell rack. Notice…
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Remote Access with TeamViewer
Have you ever needed to remotely access a computer without the headaches of having to alter firewall rules or allow access by compromising your computer’s security? TeamViewer is a great free app that allows ones to control or access a…
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Problem Removing Additional Mailboxes from Outlook 2010
In working with Outlook 2010, we had a client who had additional mailbox folders that were appended to his inbox within Outlook from using the File > Open Other User’s Folder functionality . When attempting to simply close the folder from…
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Using WordPress As A Knowledgebase
remotely connecting to our hyper-v 2025 server using hyper-v manager
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Joining ESXi to a Domain
Using domain credentials for your VMware environment only makes sense. It alleviates the hassle of having to keep up with two different sets of user credentials and makes for a much more centralized authentication model for users as well as…