March 2008 - Posts

Thu, Mar 27 2008 0:03

Forcing a Blue Screen via iLO

Sometimes one of the most useful resources at your disposal when troubleshooting a hang or other issues is the memory dump file Windows will write out during a blue screen. If a system is hung and you are not able to get to it locally, pressing Ctrl+ScrollLock...
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Sat, Mar 22 2008 23:37

Loading VMWare 6 Tools on 2008 Server Core

Normally in VMWare when you go "VM>Install VMWare Tools..." with a Windows guest, autorun kicks right in and the installer launches. On server core this isn't the case. You need to launch the MSI by hand. To do this, swich to your CD...
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Sat, Mar 22 2008 22:43

How to Sysprep in Windows 2008

I thought I'd document how to setup the new sysprep process equivalent on Windows 2008 since the old setupmgr file for making sysprep.inf's doesn't exist anymore (and neither does sysprep.inf). The first step is acquiring the Windows Automated...
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Sat, Mar 22 2008 18:04

Windows 2008 - Windows System Image Manager Error

I'm working on adding Windows 2008 to my lab and the first step of this for me anyway is making templates. The whole sysprep process in Vista and Windows 2008 has been completely re-engineered so I'm learning on the go here. Turns out you need...
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Sun, Mar 2 2008 13:50

At DEC This Week

I'm heading downtown in a bit for DEC 2008 and will be around all week. Please do say stop by and say hello and join in the conversations if you're there! If you're looking for suggestions on local things I can try and help since I'm from...
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