Corporate bozos – Take 2. “You want to do WHAT with Windows Vista???”
DaleWas asked to comment on a Vista upgrade proposal some time ago, as I’ve been around the block once or twice with SOE designs. Reading through the proposal document, from…
How many PCs can you image with SMS 2003 in a night?
From Microsoft, February 2007: Distribution Point You must plan for the appropriate number and placement of distribution points. This kind of planning is basically the same as you would do…
The Microsoft Loopback Adapter, NT4 & Windows 7.
Reading a Microsoft blog post recently, I was reminded of a customer request from late 2002. The emailed request was something like this: Had to use the generic Win NT4…
Post borrowed from The Old New Thing
With multiple screens on my work PC, sometimes a program window disappears off screen. Until now, I didn’t know how to fix it. And it wasn’t annoying enough for me…
Windows NT Server 3.51, heck that was a long while ago.
I was sorting though my various training certificates, and found the certificate right. My memories of NT Server 3.51 are now dim, but the following things stick. Same look and…
“They rang me up, and said …”
“I have an inappropriate password.” The user telling me this, was stunned that anyone would notice. An inappropriate password would be something like password qwerty 123456 But this particular Law…
SSL errors, and how to diagnose them.
Frankly, I don’t know, but here’s what I learnt. It started with a customer reporting a problem When we press the publish button on the website, we get a 403…
“It’s running at 50% of CPU.”
‘That will be because you have two processors’, was my first response. Your application is stuck on one processor. Either by a single thread looping, or Processor Affinity has been…
How to determine what OU your PC is in.
dsquery computer -name PCNAME - where PCNAME is the name of your computer. Or, go visit Joeware and grab the AdFind tool.
Activating Vista Enterprise to a Key Management Server (KMS)
Open a command prompt (as administrator). Run "cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms IP_address_of_KMS:1688 && slmgr.vbs -ato"