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Boot from a VHD in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

by Andrew Herron 30 June 2010 Desktop

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 allow you to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) that you can make bootable. This is particularly useful when needing to create a dual boot system and does not require having to partition your Hard Disk Drives (HDD). First of all you will need to create the VHD. The [...]

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Tagged as: Desktop, Server 2008 R2, VHD, Windows 7

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Windows 7 SP1 due in July

by Robby Pedrica 9 June 2010 Desktop

Microsoft anounced a public beta of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 at TechEd in New Orleans this week. Yes that’s right – the same package is used to update both platforms due to them using the same kernel. While Windows 7 doesn’t gain any new functionlity from this update, Server 2008 R2 [...]

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New Security Advisory from Microsoft

by Peter Johnson 19 May 2010 Anouncements

Hi to the IT PRO Africa Audience. Microsoft have released a new security advisory (2028859) which is references a vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution. It affects Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Here’s the link to the advisory on the Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2028859.mspx Here’s a blog entry [...]

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MSINFO32 and WMI Firewall Configuration

by Peter Johnson 3 May 2010 Documentation

I’ve being doing some work using MSINFO32 to grab information about remote servers and came across a couple of instances where I got an error that looks as follows:   This was only occurring on a couple of Windows Server 2008 machines. After some investigation I discovered that the Windows Management Instrumentaation (WMI-in) Rule needed [...]

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What is Linux?

by Robby Pedrica 21 April 2010 Desktop

A recent posting on the Blog of Helios prompted me to write a short and simple definition of Linux that might be useful for current non-users of this operating system. It is however a difficult definition in the context of what people already know. And the fact of the matter is that what the general [...]

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Tagged as: Linux, Microsoft, Security, storage

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DHCP stops without an error event

by Andrew Herron 31 January 2010 Server

Now this one took a bit of head scratching to figure out. DHCP had stopped on a Domain Controller and there was no error in the Event Logs. The only entries in the Event Log are the ones below: The problem with this is that because there is no error log there was no way [...]

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