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Blast from Past – Upgrade NT4 domain to Windows 2003
Believe it or not, there ARE still some environments out there running Windows NT domain controllers – Yes the end of life for public support from Microsoft was January 1, 2005, 10 YEARS!!! It is hard to believe, but there…
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Add GUI file explorer to Windows PE environment
Recently, in working with a client who was using the Windows PE environment created with Windows 8.1 ADK, we had a server go down that had a corrupt Windows installation. It was decided to simply boot the server in a…
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How to fix BGINFO black background issue
BGINFO is a very useful utility in any server environment where you have many server desktops you may remote into at any given time. In this age of virtualized environments, oftentimes we may have literally hundreds of server desktops to…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication Real World Test
Having been running Windows Server 2012 R2 in many environments for quite some time now, I still as of yet haven’t had a real world test of data deduplication to see how the storage savings would be shown after turning…
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Setup iSCSI Napp-it Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster
In playing around recently in my home VMware lab, I set about created a Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage. I have used many products over the years as opensource NAS appliances such as OpenFiler and others out…
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Access local drives in an RDP session
I see many admins and developers struggling with the RDP environment trying to copy files to a location where they have access to the files in the RDP session and their host workstation. Many even create shares and exceptions in…
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Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekend as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities. It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Installing Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview
With Microsoft’s recent announcement of Windows 10 and the availability of the technical preview for download, the buzz is surrounding Microsoft’s latest and great OS coming down the pipeline. With a welcomed focus back on the desktop OS and the…
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How to allow remote desktop connection Windows 8.1
Remote desktop is a great way to connect to a workstation either in the same location or remotely anywhere on the Internet (with proper firewall allowances in place of course). If you have setup a workstation at home or at…
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MySQL Workbench won’t launch Windows 8.1
I ran into a pesky issue the other day using MySQL workbench where the program itself simply would not launch. I could see the process running in Task manager in Windows, however, nothing would ever display, no errors, etc. It…
