Tag: Windows Server 2008
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How To Enable Snipping Tool, Windows Media Player and more Desktop Experience Tools on Windows Server 2008-2012 R2
Are you annoyed that you cannot play videos or use some of the cool windows tools like snipping tool with windows server? Well, you can, they just have to be enabled before you can use them. Below are instructions for enabling these features in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2012 (slightly different instructions)…
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How To Create Enable Permissions and Run a Multi-Line PowerShell Script
This topic explains how to enable scripting in Windows PowerShell, which script extensions are used in Windows PowerShell, how to enable running PowerShell scripts, how to create a script and how run a script.
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Check Version of Assembly or DLL on Your System
To look at what is on the machine click Start– and type in the path to the assembly folder which is C:windowsassembly and press ENTER.
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Network Trashed on My Lenovo W510 And The NIC Driver Will Not Install–So SIMPLE If You Know The Secret
Thanks to Keith Combs for his post as it provided me the solution. Install the Intel Ethernet driver from 6irf24ww_764. You are running the installer but it does not really install it. However, it does put the driver on disk so you can manually select it later. Start | type Device Manager | Press ENTER…
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How to Solve Connectivity Issues Connecting To SCOM, SCVMM, AD or Any Other Service–Here is the Easy fix
I have been in the technology industry for more than 25 years now and I have dealt with my fair share of connectivity issues. In the last decade or so a good 85% or more of the issues I have encountered have been DNS issues. There is a very easy solution to fix the problem…
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How To Merge a Chained Differential VHD Disk So It Can Be Extended and Expanded
In my post Out of Disk Space on Drive C–How To Increase Space on Drive C of a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server 2003 I showed how to expand a drive but these instructions do not work if you have a differencing disk or chain of disks. If you want to expand a disk, you…
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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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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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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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Allow Remote Desktop Services and Ping Through Firewall on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
This post in in response to questions on how to turn maintain remote connectivity to a server running Hyper-V with the firewall enabled. The first thing to consider is what inbound traffic you want to enable on the server. If it is a Hyper-V server you should consider if you are just going to use…
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iSCSI SAN for VERY Easy Storage Virtualization All About Storage From Virtualization Group Boston
A quick update on Virtualization Group Boston’s, “All About Storage” event. Thanks to our Community Sponsors: PerfectDisk, and StarWind Software. We had a great turnout with strong presentations from two big names in the industry, StarWind Software and PerfectDisk(Raxco Software). One of the topics we discussed and I wanted to explore more is iSCSI Storage…
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DPM eLearning is now online – How to Backup SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange Server and Virtulized Environments (Hyper-V), Including Disaster Recovery
Announcing DPM eLearning is now online This week, I am very happy to announce the availability of eLearning for DPM 2007. This is a collection of 6 two-hour eLearning modules that include hands-on labs, much of the same courseware as our newly announced classroom-based DPM course, and is built for to prepare you for the…
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How To Configure BitLocker on Windows 7 RC – Everything You Need To Know About BitLocker
I have had many questions about BitLocker so I thought I would answer them in this blog post. What is BitLocker and Why Should I Care? BitLocker is a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) component that allows you to protect data on hard drives. BitLocker is the name given to the encryption component that works…
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Where To Download ISO Images For The Latest And Past Versions Of Microsoft Software Including SQL Server 2000 x64
I had a customer ask me today if it was possible to download SQL Server 2000 x64. I am posting here so others can benefit from the answer. If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can download the ISO image of the CD/DVD’s. If you do not have either of these, you can…
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Preparing your machine for SQL Server 2008 LoadFest – Installing OS on Virtual Guest
I had a client ask me about preparing his machine for the SQL Loadfest coming up at the end of this week. He wanted to know if he could set that up on a Virtual PC environment. I figured several others might have similar questions so figured I would answer it in a blog post.…
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Disable Adding USB Drive and Memory Sticks via Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences
If you do not have Group Policy Preferences installed see Install Group Policy Preferences. This link tells you how to do it in a 2003 domain. In a 2008 domain it is much easer as all you have to do is enable the feature. See “The Steps” section below if you need a step by…