Archive for the ‘Windows 2008’ Category

VMware Workstation 7 and Server 2008 R2 Guests

I think I found my first bug.
 
Doing a Easy Install on Server 2008 R2 – first it complains that the key is wrong (though that could just be a copy/paste issue lol) then;
 

But the Easy Install has finished!! Powered the VM off and back on again, still the same.
 
Oh well, no VMware tools!

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LogonHours

Below is a script to find any users who have logon hours restricted (i.e. not set to “Allow Any Time”)
 
Don’t forget to generate an objects.txt by doing a “dsquery –user –l 0 > objects.txt” as per any of my other scripts.
 

strtextfile = "objects.txt" [...]

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Finding users who are not Inheriting Rights

Got a request from a support company, they have found multiple users who are not inheriting rights from above. These users are random, and he wanted a quick way to find (and therefore fix) the users effected. Screenshot below of the checkbox the users have mysteriously "unchecked";

So I created a little [...]

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Microsoft to support ESX-Virtualised 2008 x86…. But only on Opteron hardware?

According to
This
Microsoft have “Passed” ESX. Running Server 2008 x86. On Opteron Hardware (with a max memory of 4gb).
Does this mean Intel-based ESX installations are not supported?
And only 2008 x86???
And on another side-note, Exchange 2007 is now supported under “passed” Virtualization Environments.
Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2007 in production on hardware virtualization software only when all the [...]

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