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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 requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
So far, I’ve covered the following Hyper-V Remote Management scenarios: Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, server configuration, full install ( Part one ) Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, client configuration ( Part two ) Workgroup: Vista Read More...
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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’
Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 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: 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’
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 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 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’
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 the steps necessary on the client machine. Part one concentrated on the server side configuration. Step 5 (On the client) Step 5 mirrors 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’
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 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 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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18 January 2006
Multimedia Card drive icons in Window Explorer
Still jetlagged :( 2AM again. Maybe tomorrow night I'll get round to sleeping finally! So hands up everyone who's built their own MCE machine - particularly those who have MSDN, for example, and like to "test" :) And... for those MCE machines, keep your 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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18 October 2005
Help - IE Keeps opening my spreadsheet. I want to save the darn thing...
I received an email yesterday from a user using Internet Explorer to attempt to download Excel Spreadsheets (.xls extension). They couldn't see an obvious way of stopping Internet Explorer from automatically opening the spreadsheet embedded in the browser, 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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