Archive for October 17th, 2005
Virtual Server guest operating system upgrade requires re-installation of virtual machine additions
Here’s a tip for Virtual Server administrators: remember to remove the Virtual Server virtual machine (VM) additions before upgrading a guest VM’s operating system version!
I just upgraded a Windows Server 2003 VM from standard to enterprise edition and couldn’t get the mouse to connect (keyboard control was present, but not what you might call responsive). [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2005 under Virtual Server/Hyper-V.
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Active Directory operations master management
Moving Active Directory operations masters is not something that you need to do every day, and I can never remember how to do it when I need to (well the RID, PDC, infrastructure and domain naming masters are easy enough, but I always forget how to move the schema master because it requires registration of [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2005 under Active Directory.
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GPMC modelling after upgrading Active Directory
Earlier today, I came across a interesting hangover from last week’s domain upgrade from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003.
After installing the group policy management console (GPMC), I was viewing a pre-existing group policy object (GPO) and GPMC notified me that Enterprise Domain Controllers did not have read access to all GPOs in the [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2005 under Active Directory, Windows Server 2003.
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Advice for potential eBayers
I have a lot of “stuff” hanging around taking up space, some of which I don’t use (mostly old IT odds and ends, plus some books and videos). Now, some of it turned out to have little or no value (at least commercially), but I have sold some of it on eBay.co.uk.
The trouble is, [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2005 under Waffle and randomness.
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