Month: July 2009

Our Exchange Server has been in production now for a week and there are some significant issues coming up that relate to speed. It appears that running IPv6 on this server creates a major speed issue. This could be seen in very slow client access (oftentimes you will see a message like “Trying to connect…

Last time I looked at this was some 9 months ago. It will become more important as time goes on, but it hasn’t been a priority much lately. The main difference is that with a Hyper-V server I now have some Vista VMs to use as test configurations. If we ever went to a lab…

Refer to my previous article about setting appcompat settings for Omnis.exe to Windows 2000 in order to eliminate calls to EncodePointer and DecodePointer (functionality added to Windows XP Service Pack 2). On a new Windows Vista system, RM Integris (Omnis.exe) crashed upon first execution when it reached the “Open / Create Datafile” dialog. The application…

After capturing our new Vista image using Ghost and ImageX, the reference PC was rebooted to effectively apply it. A second PC of identical hardware configuration had the image applied to it using Ghost. First time startup with the image takes around 20 minutes to complete before the normal Windows logon comes up. Issues found…

Continuing the series on automation of Windows Vista installations, the first article covered the creation of our first Vista image. Prior to this time I had some experience of ImageX from using it to image a PC that was running Vista, however I had not used Sysprep with this PC and therefore the image was…

Following on from the comment in the first article, I created the xml file for Sysprep and used it to sysprep the image of the source machine. I then took two machine images, one using Ghost 11 and one using ImageX. I then loaded the Ghost image back to the original machine after formatting its…

When you are a system administrator, pretty much an important thing is to work out how to streamline setup and installation of computers using various kinds of mass duplication techniques. Historically one of the best known systems for doing this has been Binary Brothers’ Ghost software, now known as Symantec Ghost Solution Suite. Microsoft has…