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09 May 2006
Internet Explorer Tip - Open new window
Here's a tip I learnt a couple of months ago and meant to post up before - totally forgot. Maybe it's force of habit, but rather than opening a new instance Internet Explorer, going to the address bar and typing in a web page, it's quicker to do start/run Read More...
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09 November 2005
ADS to deploy Windows XP?
I have to admit, I'd never thought of this one. Yes, I've looked into using ADS (Automated Deployment Services) for deploying Windows Server 2003 and use it as part of the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit ( VSMT ) solution but never thought of using it Read More...
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21 June 2005
Don't be flamed - use the Image Resizer Powertoy
Continuing the theme of digital imagery and photography , I happened to notice an email go through on an internal discussion group today which had something like 4MB of attachments in the form of photos. As you can probably imaging, the sender was somewhat Read More...
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15 June 2005
How to create a Custom Group Policy Administrative Template to change Hide File Extensions for Known File Types
I was asked by a customer, or rather a colleague of mine took the query who passed it on to me, how you could use group policy to affect the Windows Explorer setting to hide file extensions for known file types. This isn't a setting which is directly Read More...
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31 May 2005
Turn Off Low Disk Space Notification
Next part of a series of blogs about changes to my home network, but equally as valuable to anyone who runs Virtual Machines in the sort of way I'm going to explain. For performance and due to lack of physical memory on my Virtual Server host, I've seperated Read More...
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24 May 2005
Group Policy resetting of local user passwords
Quick blog today - I'm presenting at the Technet Roadshow event in Birmingham today (Harrogate is next week, and London the week following), and am connected to the Internet by something which must be a 2K dial-up line shared between 20 users - slow doesn't Read More...
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19 April 2005
My reason for not backing up
Somewhat of a cynical post, but there's always a bright side to even the darkest of corners. So here's a "glass half full" reason why not to do a backup, or at least not to do a backup in the way I tried yesterday. I run Windows Server 2003 on my main Read More...
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19 January 2005
VMRC Client (Virtual Machine Remote Control Client) under Virtual Server 2005 - Great scenario
AKA Another great reason to consider using Virtual Server 2005 for test/dev scenarios.... I was asked a question a couple of days ago, and I hadn't thought of using the VMRC client in this particular circumstance. I haven't tested it, but there's no reason Read More...
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10 January 2005
Windows Task Manager - Alternate View
This is one of those small almost unheard of "things you can do in Windows" tips. The left image below is a "normal" Windows Task Manager screen shot. If you double-click anywhere in the graphical part of the tab, it changes appearance to the screen on Read More...
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06 January 2005
Do I have local admin rights? Find out how in three mouse clicks (or two keys plus a mouse click)....
I use this quick-tip frequently to determine if I'm a local administrator. The trouble with some tips is that you just know them, they're so simple so you don't bother to tell people as you're under the assumption they "must have known that". This exact Read More...
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05 January 2005
KB 891609 - Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied.
Summary from KB Article : When you open the Virtual Server Administration Website in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, you receive the following error message: Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied. You can specify an alternate virtual server Read More...
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13 December 2004
XP Virtual Desktop Powertoy under Windows Server 2003 (The ITPro way....)
I really like the Virtual Desktop manager powertoy for XP . Unfortunately, it's just not available under Windows Server 2003. Or is it? Read on.... Part of my on-going mission is to run Windows Server 2003 as my main desktop. Not because I'm sadistic Read More...
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08 December 2004
Display build number and OS version on desktop
Something which you often see Microsoft people do in their demonstrations is have the Operating System description and build number displayed on their desktop. While sysinternals do a fabulous job with their Background Info (bginfo) tool (in fact I use Read More...
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