Month: November 2010

In amongst the new functionality for Windows Server 2008 is the Remote Access Gateway (it acquired this name in Server 2008 R2 but was introduced as Terminal Server Gateway in 2008 R1) and Network Access Protection enhancements. The latter technology existed in previous editions of Server but was mainly concerned with enforcing protection against remotely…

Earlier this week I wrote about the frustration of transferring Excel data to Access with flaky OBDC connections or drivers. I’m not sure that was exactly the cause but a lot of error conditions were experienced trying to manipulate data with the linked tables which were Excel spreadsheets. Eventually I got the data to be…

This has taken a break because I have been very busy with other things. However I had a look at it at home last night and used Wim2VHD to make a VHD containing Windows 7 Enterprise x86. I then copied it to a portable HDD and took it to work this morning. I think the…

Remember… you heard it here first… http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=&id=791 http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki Peter Harrison, Vice President of the New Zealand Open Source Society commends the release. “ The Internet provides humanity with a unequalled opportunity to leverage our communication technology to educate people across the globe. Through collaborative technologies such as Wiki people can work together to create rich…

I have used MS Access for 15 years to do various types of reporting and it is my defacto tool of choice with input data that looks like some form of database and a report as output, especially when it has multiple pages, requires calculations, or data to be joined together from multiple tables. One…

At the moment I am trying out the walkthrough applying a sysprepped image directly to a VHD file that I created with Diskpart. This tool can be used with VHD files as well as ordinary hard disks and then it can mount the VHD to a drive letter. As noted in previous discussion while this…

Continuing on from yesterday’s post, I did some thinking about this overnight and have made enquiries on Technet as well. I think the best scenario for creating your own native boot VHDs using MDT is to deploy an OS to a VHD using a standard deploy sequence. You would then run a sysprep only task…

In my previous post I wrote about the development of the native boot VHD capability in Windows 7. As I noted, the specifics of this functionality is that a VHD can be copied to a destination computer’s hard disk and attached as a boot device. Windows can then be booted via the VHD file. There…

A while back I wrote about my experiments in using MDT to back up laptops. Some of my MDT shares got moved to a new server recently and the backup share had to be set up again from scratch, which for some reason proved exceptionally difficult but it has happened eventually. However while I was…