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Injecting NIC Drivers into a WDS Boot Image

Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, WDS | No Comments »

We're switching to a new laptop here at the office, and this new laptop uses a NIC driver that is not included in Server 2008 Standard's boot.wim.  Naturally, instead of rebuilding the entire WIM (and reinventing the wheel), I decided ...

Lock Your Computer

Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft | No Comments »

We are all professionals here - well, most of us.  We all know that one should lock his or her computer before leaving their desk.  Blah, blah. The keyboard I use at work has programmable keys - I can make them ...

A connection will not be made…

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Hyper-V | No Comments »

First of all, don't tell me what you will and will not do, young lady. I was receiving the error below when trying to connect to a VM through Hyper-V Manager: The fix was easily found in the TechNet Forums (in case ...

winsxs: The Bain of My Current Existance

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »

Long time no see. I was digging through one of our virtual terminal servers today to try and figure out why there was only 29.8MB of 20GB free on the system partition.  A large culprit turned out to be the C:\Windows\winsxs ...