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How to Tune Performance in IIS 7.5
In running sites via Microsoft’s IIS Server platform, it becomes necessary from time to time to adjust performance settings to compensate for high load or other demands on the server running IIS server. IIS 7 is closely tied in with…
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How to Add Drivers to .Wim Images
If you have created .wim images for deployment in your enterprise environment either by USB key, DVD, local hard drive, or WDS, you know there are times when you need to add a driver to the image to accomodate a…
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How to keep roaming profiles from being cached
We have covering roaming profiles in a few other posts and as most admins already know, roaming profiles can be a literal nightmare to manage or troubleshoot. The whole purpose behind roaming profiles is to have a method for your…
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How to keep Windows from installing updates on shutdown
It is probably one of the most annoying things ever. When you are in a hurry and trying to get your workstation or laptop shutdown quickly, you get the notification from Windows that it is installing “1 of 32” updates…
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How to automatically change the display resolution for a specific program
Have you ever installed a program that requires a specific resolution that is a different resolution than you normally run? It can be a pain to have to manually change the resolution via the Windows control panel each and every…
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How to hack a forgotten Windows password step by step
We have all been there before either ourselves or we have had a close friend who knows that we are a IT professional or at least knows that we know our way around a computer nonetheless and calls in a…
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How to Extend VMware Windows 7 virtual disk
If you have ever spun up a Windows 7 workstation in VMware and get everything loaded and start using it only to find that you didn’t provision enough storage up front, you may be thinking you will need to delete…
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How to Install Windows Server 2012 step by step
Window Server 2012 is Microsoft’s next generation server operating system and it is following closely to Windows 8 Customer Preview release. Microsoft is gearing up to release both of these next generation OS’s that both focus on cloud computing and…
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Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Datacenter Available for Download
On the heels of the latest news and download for the Windows 8 Release Preview ISO, Microsoft has released the next version of their server operating system now officially dubbed Windows Server 2012. Microsoft is touting this server OS to…
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How to correct reverse DNS issues
Most of the time people think of DNS as being the service that helps us to resolve a name to an IP address and that is certainly true, as without this service, the Internet as we know it could not…
