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April 2009 - Posts

Safely setting autologon for Windows

When configuring Microsoft Windows to auto-logon, most people just modify the following keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:16 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Getting inside information about Hyper-V

A new book has gone to press recently covering Hyper-V.  The “Insider’s Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor” covers pretty much everything you need to know about Hyper-V, as well as recommendations on how to install, configure, and secure virtual machines.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:07 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 doesn’t have to ignore the MBSA if you don’t want it to

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser (MBSA) is an excellent free tool by Microsoft that provides a simple and easy-to-use method of identifying common security misconfigurations for your Microsoft Windows computers.  The current version (MBSA Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 9:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Office 2003 being put to bed

Just a quick reminder to everyone that mainstream support for Microsoft Office 2003 ended on April 14th 2009, extended support will be available however until the 14th of January 2014. You can get more information from the following two pages: Microsoft Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:38 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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VBS Functions

The lack of a decent GUI for VBS development has always been a problem for most people.  The advantages of using VBS are great, but writing the scripts can be labourious, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience and know all the commands/functions Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 12:45 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Faster Creation of Virtual Machines

I recently noticed a blog post on TechNet about a new tool that was released on CodePlex.  WIM2VHD is a command-line tool allows you to create sysprepped VHD images from any Windows 7 installation source (and I suspect Windows Server 2008 R2 as well) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:55 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Yet Another Core Configurator

In the true spirit of Linux, it seems that everybody is re-inventing the wheel – because they can.  So, just as your favourite Linux distro had 9,999 different versions of the same basic calculator tool (but all written by different people), it seems Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:38 AM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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Network Issues prevent certain Installations (otherwise known as 0xc000000f)

I have recently been setting up a Hyper-V laboratory for a Windows 7 project.  I had all the machines installed, and I was configuring them using an RDP connection rather than using VMConnect (the reason is that it is nice and easy to get access Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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