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07 August 2008
Hyper-V: Why does Hyper-V Manager not always work over VPN connection? Access Denied or RPC server unavailable errors.
This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection  - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and Read More...
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04 April 2008
Part 5. Domain client to Workgroup Server: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote   So far, I’ve covered the following Hyper-V Remote Management scenarios: Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, server Read More...
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01 April 2008
Part 4. Domain joined environment: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote   Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5   So after even more feedback and questions, part 4 Read More...
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30 March 2008
Part 3 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote   Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5   Although I thought I’d finished at part two, after Read More...
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28 March 2008
Part 2 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote   Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5   The second part of the extra-long blog post contains Read More...
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28 March 2008
Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote   Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5   After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed Read More...
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21 February 2007
Windows Desktop Search - Index network shares for faster searching
Can't wait to get home tonight..... just saw a pointer to this download on microsoft.com which is an addin for Windows Desktop Search, supported on Windows Vista which provides indexing capability for network shares. Given I've got hundreds of GB of data Read More...
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10 May 2006
Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely
Yesterday evening, I was at home and attempting to remotely connect to my XP desktop machine in the office to access an application which was installed there, but not installed on my laptop. This was over VPN. Now I’ve only had both machines for a few Read More...
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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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21 April 2006
Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting
I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses Read More...
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07 April 2006
Windows Vista Webcasts Next Week
Just seen the list of webcasts for next week - there's a couple on the list worth mentioning. All times are PST (add 8 hours for UK time) Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Windows Vista for the Enterprise (Level 200) Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:30 Read More...
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28 February 2006
TechNet and Languages in Internet Explorer
I'm sure this isn't going to teach a lot of people anything new, but given I just noticed it myself, I think it's worth mentioning just in case. Due to my recent change of laptop, and the fact that my new laptop doesn't run Windows Server 2003 (actually Read More...
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20 February 2006
Shadow Copy Client Download
I was on the train a few days ago and ended up chatting to some guy (apologies, I'm terrible with names) about stuff which inevitably deviated into technology - of course we got to the bit when I mentioned I worked for Microsoft. His relatively small Read More...
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13 February 2006
Clear Read-Only Attributes in bulk
There's often those situations where you need to clear read-only attributes from a directory tree in bulk. In the past, having been a command line junkie and developer, I've used the attrib command with the /S parameter to include sub-directories as I've Read More...
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07 February 2006
Applying Least Privilege to User Accounts in Windows XP
You've already probably heard by now the many efforts and changes which will be coming into place with the release of Windows Vista later this year regarding how "least privilege" (I use quotes as the actual term has changed a few times and I'm not sure Read More...
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