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01 April 2008
Part 4. Domain joined environment: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
So after even more feedback and questions, part 4 of this series provides the walkthrough steps necessary to perform Hyper-V remote administration in a domain joined environment. For reference: Part one is the server configuration for a full server installation Read More...
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30 March 2008
Part 3 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Although I thought I’d finished at part two, after even more emails and comments on part one and two , it quickly became obvious to me that I need to round off the series by answering “But what if my server is a server core installation”. In server core, Read More...
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30 March 2008
How to add the Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 Server Core machine
Soon, I promise, I will be publishing part 3 which is the workgroup server-core version of “ Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer Read More...
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28 March 2008
Part 2 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
The second part of the extra-long blog post contains the steps necessary on the client machine. Part one concentrated on the server side configuration. Step 5 (On the client) Step 5 mirrors step 2 in the first part of this blog post, but on the client. Read More...
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28 March 2008
Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed only appropriate to write up a detailed post (or two actually) about how to resolve this. You will hit this problem when using the Hyper-V Vista management tools connecting to a remote Windows Server 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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03 January 2007
Running the Windows Server 2003 Admin Tools on Windows Vista
Here's a handy KB article just published if you want to run the Windows Server 2003 (SP1) Administrative Tools from a Windows Vista client machine. There's also a list of known problems with some of the management tools and workarounds where they are Read More...
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27 December 2006
Error loading operating system message when booting Windows Vista
I was faced this morning with a few dilemmas... First, several inches of snow. Now, just for the record, my idea of fun is absolutely not driving in snow wherever possible having totalled a car many years ago in black ice. No problem, I'll work from home Read More...
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16 November 2006
Windows Vista and Office 2007 - Now available for download on MSDN and Technet
Good news - as of a few hours ago, both Technet Plus and MSDN subscribers can download Windows Vista (both x86 and x64) from the relevant subscriber download site. If you weren't aware, Office 2007 (Professional, InfoPath, OneNote, Groove, Project Professional Read More...
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12 November 2006
Running Microsoft Money 2005 UK under Windows Vista
So now Windows Vista and Office 2007 are here, I've been upgrading to the RTM build on my home machines over the weekend. One little foible I've found is with running the UK edition of Microsoft Money 2005 under Windows Vista. Once Microsoft Money is Read More...
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17 August 2006
Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 2
Continuing the configuration of a secure wireless network, this part deals with configuring the IAS server to recognise authentication requests from your wireless device. The first part of configuring IAS is configuring a RADIUS client. In this case, Read More...
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14 August 2006
Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 1
So I've got a few blog posts which piece together something I've been trying to do (and finally got working) since moving to Seattle. Namely - set up a secure wireless network. Now, I did have a wireless network at home when I was in England, but it wasn't Read More...
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10 August 2006
Secure Wireless LAN Solution Webcast: Microsoft's Authentication Infrastructure with Aruba Networks' Mobile Edge
This webcast coming up next week took my eye as I've recently put in a (hopefully) secure wireless network at home over the past few weeks since moving over to the US. There's a few blog posts about that and some of the pain which has been involved - Read More...
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12 July 2006
Windows Live OneCare 90-day trial available
I installed the trial of Windows Live OneCare on my childrens machine at home last week - the 90 day trial is available here . If you haven't seen it yet, OneCare can be thought of as an all-in-one tune up and peace of mind package including Antivirus, Read More...
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12 July 2006
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3
Just seen that this is now available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Cheers, John. Read More...
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