Tag: How To
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Blue Screen Booting to VHD–You May Be Out Of Space On The Underlying Drive
When you are using Boot to VHD you must have enough capacity on the underlying disk to fully expand the VHD. If you do not have enough capacity you will get a blue screen (aka Screen of Death). If you have this problem, try booting to a windows 7 or windows Server 2008 DVD. When…
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Problems with IE9 Performance-Here Is The Solution
My colleague and friend, Jim O’Neil did a post on an issue he and others were facing with IE 9 performance. I want to share so you can tweak your machine to get the best performance possible out of IE 9. “Like many, I installed IE9 today (on two machines, actually). I went right away…
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Remote Desktop Services–How To Change Settings For All Users
Have you ever wanted to change some settings for all users in a Terminal Server or Remote Desktop Services Session environment? Do you know there is a really cool command line tool that is used to install application called “Change User” that can also be used to propagate any number of settings to all users…
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How to Install PowerShell on Windows Server 2003 and Enable Remote PowerShell Management–All Servers Should Have This Done
PowerShell is an incredible tool that will allow you to run scripts or commands on your server. PowerShell is included with Windows Server 2008 R2 but it has to be added to Windows Server 2003. I recently had a customer who got their server (DC) infected with a virus and it was a huge problem…
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Tips and Tools for Deploying Windows 7–Part 5- Managing and Securing Your Clients and Critical Server Infrastructure
Tips and Tools for Managing and Securing Your Clients and Critical Server Infrastructure Like everyone else, you love Windows 7 and can’t wait to get it deployed throughout your organization. Let’s take a look at the many tips and tools available today to ease your burden of deployment. I have broken it down into several…
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Out of Disk Space on Drive C–How To Increase Space on Drive C of a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server 2003
Revised 4/2/2011 to add merge change instructions link and link to simple way to do this using diskpart. I documented the process at: How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever Note… this is…
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Tips and Tools for Deploying Windows 7 Part 4-Desktop Deployment
Like everyone else, you love Windows 7 and can’t wait to get it deployed throughout your organization. Let’s take a look at the many tips and tools available today to ease your burden of deployment. I have broken it down into several steps (or categories of steps). While writing all of this, it became obvious…
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Using Differencing Disk and Sysprep Image to Create Hyper-V Guest on Windows Server 2008 R2 By Dan Stolts
Video Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Gg269420 If your on Twitter please let me know what you think about this post @ITProGuru. Otherwise, Please place a comment on my blog. Using a Sysprep image gives us the capability to create any number of servers with the base install done once. In this short video, we walk step-by-step through…
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Make IE 9 Tabs Work The Way You Want Them To Work
I have been using IE 9 for a while and have found it to be a pretty incredible browser. However, over time I have also found that some of the default settings are in my view a little quirky. I am sure there was a good reason for the product team to set them as…
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How To Successfully Deliver Presentations for Community Leaders and Professional Speakers – Drive Satisfaction and Impact at Your Events
Overview: There is no silver bullet when it comes to successfully delivering content at live events and getting great scores. It actually takes a whole bunch of things. The more you do well, the better the score and impact on the audience. A successful presentation is made up of many things. Some small, some not…
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Online Collaboration – Publishing PowerPoint Slides to Your Blog or Website Using Office Web App and SkyDrive
Publishing PowerPoint Slides to Your Blog or Website Using Office Web App and SkyDrive is a very simple process. The end results looks like the embedded PowerPoint slides at the bottom of this post. If you click through the PowerPoint deck, you can see some screen shots of the process. The button on the bottom…
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Configure Email or Instant Message (IM) Alert Notification in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM)
From SharePoint Saturday Boston Question and Answer on my session Managing and Monitoring SharePoint 2010 with Operations Manager 2007 R2. “How to configure Email or IM alerting in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM)” To send notifications of alerts, Operations Manager 2007 can use a variety of mechanisms, such as e-mail, instant message, short…
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How to Find a Lost, Missing, Hidden or Removed Network Card (NIC) or Other Device and Even Remove it
In a scenario where you have physically removed hardware from a machine you can no longer see it in device manager. This does not mean that it is gone. Evidence of that is, if for example you had a network card that had a Static IP address set and you remove the card and add…
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Scale Your Message Online Improving Blog Exposure and Increase Reach of Your Message by Driving Traffic to Your Content By Dan Stolts
I have had many people over the last month ask what I have been doing to have success in increasing traffic to my blog and other online content. This post highlights my answer to them. You may not be able to utilize all tips on all your posts or content. Use whatever you can whenever…
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Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 System Will NOT Boot After Making Changes To Boot Manager Using BCDEdit
I messed up. It happens to everyone from time to time. In my case, I was playing around with my system boot manager because I wanted to setup Boot To VHD. Well being tired and not thinking to clearly, I made the changes to the {current} boot item instead of the new one I had…
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Hyper-V Security 101 – Virtualization Administration Delegation of Hyper-V and SCVMM
When running Hyper-V you do not need to be at the console to manage your virtualization platform. In fact, it is strongly recommended that you delegate these rights. If you let someone login to a server with administrative permissions they basically have the “keys to the kingdom”. We do not usually want to do this. …
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Add Chart to Excel Using Office 2007 Plus Some Formula Discussion
Click Video to Play Double-Click to go Full Screen You can find the downloadable files at the following URLs on Edge Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) 85×64 Preview Image (PNG) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Right-Click Above Links, Save As In this short…
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DISM Step By Step-Using Deployment Image Servicing Management Tool
Click Video to Play Double-Click to go Full Screen You can find the downloadable files at the following URLs on Edge Windows Media Video (WMV) Windows Media Audio (WMA) 85×64 Preview Image (PNG) 320×240 Preview Image (PNG) 512×384 Preview Image (PNG) iPod Video (MP4) MP3 Audio High Quality WMV (2.5 Mbps) Zune Video (WMV) Smooth…
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Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 and Migrate Microsoft Office and Other Applications Using The User State Migration Tool (USMT
At recent TechNet events, I had questions about migrating applications using the User State Migration Tool (USMT). As I suspected, there is support for migrating some applications including Microsoft Office. In fact, for Microsoft Office it can even migrate settings from an older version of office on the source machine to a newer version of…
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How to Extend Your Activation Grace Period on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (Activate Now Message)
Most of the content I use for webcasts and live events have virtual machines that have been created either by someone on my team or by someone at Microsoft corporate. The virtual machines are not created with trial versions of the operating system but with fully licensed product. For obvious reasons they are not activated,…