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When moving virtual machines between Hyper-V servers it is often useful to be able to export directly into the folder where the virtual machine will reside on the new host. This saves a lot of time and disk space. Here is what you need to do: Make sure that both your source and destination Hyper-V …
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Here is a short script that will install the prerequisites for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: ServerManagerCMD.exe -i PowerShell ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Server ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Asp-Net ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-Metabase ServerManagerCMD.exe -i Web-WMI Since ServerManagerCMD.exe is deprecated in Windows Server 2008 R2 and has been replaced with PowerShell cmdlets, here is the PowerShell command as well: …
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The GUI insatller (setup.exe) for the Virtual Server 2005 Virtual Machine Additions do not offer a reinstall or repair option. That means that if you ever experience any problems with any of the additions you are forced to first remove the additions, reboot, reinstall them and the reboot again. But if you use the MSI …
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Introduction There has been a lot of talk in various forums about how to get Outlook Anywhere to work with NTLM authentication through ISA Server 2006. This has also been a high priority for me since single-sign on is a great feature. Users, when logging on from domain joined computers, should not have to enter …
I have an old first-generation (G1) Compaq ML310 server that I use as a multi-server on my home network. Since it is so old the server is only capable of running an x86 OS, but it has 3 GB of memory so I manages the job for my small network. It is certified for Windows …
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[stub] Oracle client requires the Create Global Objects user right. Add the required users to the Local Security Policy or a GPO to assign them this right.
No, but I just had to try: I wonder if this is just a mock requirement or if Enterprise edition really has any features that are required by IIFP, probably the former. Morgan
One of the things I have never been able to figure out, is why you cannot request a certificate based on the Web Server template from a Windows Enterprise CA when you are using the CA web pages (<servername>/CertSrv). Ever since Windows 2000 I have occationally stumbeled on this problem but never had time to …
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Recently, I’ve been having some issues with certificates in IIS 6.0 that have cause me to perform some operations that I do not normally do. That has taught me a thing or two about certificates in IIS and I have discovered some nice info which I link to in this post. First off is my …