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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:52 PM

How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).

I have been working on some PowerShell recently to handle the initial setup of a new machine, and I wanted to add the activation. If you do this from a command line it usually using the Software Licence manager script ( slMgr.vbs ) but this is just a
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:17 AM

How to: have nicer Active Directory management from PowerShell – without upgrading AD

One of the first books I read on PowerShell  had a comment about using AD from the PowerShell V1 which amounted to “It’s too hard, don’t bother use VB Script instead”. I’d taken against the book in question (no names no pack drill) – in fact it reminded
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:39 PM

Customizing the Windows 7 logon screen: no additional tools required

A few of people have noticed that I’m running Windows 7 with a customized logon screen, and a couple of them asked me if I used “logon studio” which (as I understand it) rummages round inside some of the image resources buried in DLL files. In Windows
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Monday, January 05, 2009 5:15 PM

Lies,Damn lies and licence interpretations.

From time to time people ask me who I write for, and I always say I write for myself in the hope that there are enough people out there like me to make a reasonable size audience. It always surprises me how many people inside Microsoft read this blog,
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:35 AM

Active Directory User Group, first meeting with John Craddock and Sally Storey

We now have a UK AD user group ( ADUG ) And they have their first meeting set for October 23rd at Microsoft’s offices in London, from 6 till 9 in the evening. They’ve managed to secure John and Sally – probably the best established AD double-act in Europe
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:44 AM

UK Windows server user group

The title says it all ready. Mark Wilson has created a group on Linked in to help get the ball rolling again - he explains why this was needed and what to do on his blog . Please take a look.
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Monday, June 16, 2008 8:21 AM

How I get the server I want: #1 Disabling the shutdown event tracker

I think that the shutdown event tracker came in in Server 2003, and I'm sure that in some data centres it is a very useful tool for logging why servers were manually shut down. On a demo system, it tends to be a nuisance. Hyper-v, for example, disables
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:40 PM

Hyper-V RC-1 available for download

There was a slight hiccup which meant news appeared, disappeared and then re-appeared. But all the right announcements are posted, notably this one from Taylor Brown on the Virtualization team blog. Windows Server 2008 Patch KB950049 - the Hyper-V RC-1
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:48 PM

Search: A quick round-up

I've been meaning to have a play with Search Server since Viral demo'd it on the last roadshow. We have a downloadable VHD for it with a very good walk-through, I can say that honestly because I've just spent a couple of hours walking through it. Of course
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:59 PM

Product life cycles (and Virtual Server 2005)

It's always nice when someone says James O'Neill, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, reveals that Virtual Server 2005 support will end in 2014 - except that then people come and demand to know why you're revealing product plans. So, lets start with a basic
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:20 PM

PowerShell and Telnet.

I've got a backlog of posts at the moment. Steve and I have been getting ready for the Road-show, and Windows deployment services, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual Server Clustering, iScsi, dual booting Windows Server 2003 & 2008, and
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 10:34 AM

"Perfidious Microsoft"

I don't know whether to be angry or frustrated, and whether the target should be journalists who make mountains out of molehills, or the people in Redmond who give them the molehill to start with. Here's the story. The Windows update software changes
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:16 PM

Sun to become Windows Server OEM.

That's a title I never expected to type. Check calendar. No it's not April 1st. I got a mail annoucing this, but it's not yet on it's now on Presspass , but and it's on Sun's home page right now with a link to " Get the news and replay audio cast " Considering
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Friday, September 07, 2007 12:25 PM

Virtualization on tour, SCVMM Released and a peek at WSV

I remember the first time I saw the comedian Eddie Izzard perform live, he walked onto the stage in Oxford, and looked around the audience. There wasn't a single empty seat. He said "I've sold out! People always say 'Stay true to yourself and never sell
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Friday, June 29, 2007 6:07 PM

Announcing the Virtual server Res-Kit and a great tool.

The tool is VMRCplus - an alternate UI as opposed to the Virtual Server web interface. VMRCplus uses the documented Virtual Server COM interface and is a great example of what can be accomplished with it. In due course VMRCplus will soon be available
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