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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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January 2008 - Posts

Server 2008 Hyper-V Service vmss failing to start
With the latest RC1 refresh, you have to install Server 2008 with the default language settings in order for the vmss service to start properly. Details here: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2585027&SiteID=17 Read More...
Running Windows Server 2008 under Xen on OpenSuse 10.3
I've just bought a 2xQuad Core Zeon, Dell Poweredge 1900, with 16GB RAM. This is for some heavy duty Hyper-V testing in Windows Server 2008 but I thought it'd be fun to run it under OpenSuse 10.3 first. The result: Click the above image for a full size Read More...
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Core - Demos
The are some nice core demos over at Keth Coombs' blog. Catch them here: http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2007/11/04/windows-server-2008-core-screencast-series-watch-all-eight-parts-here.aspx Read More...
How-To Create an Outlook Profile Automatically
We need a way of creating users Outlook profiles automatically. They can run this the first time they login, or at any other time to recreate thier profile. First download the files here . The files are stored in a shared directory. We created a directory Read More...
Event ID 1058 and 1030
On several AD installations with multiple domain controllers I have seen servers continuosly logging event 1058 and 1030. Running "dfsutil /PurgeMupCache" followed by "gpupdate /Force" always seems to fix it. You obtain DFSUTIL from the support tools Read More...