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Update on the MCSE Upgrade

I was complaining (more or less) several weeks ago about the amount of work it was going to take to upgrade my MCSE to the latest version. The good news is I went and did the Windows end of things and now I'm apparently an "MCITP: Enterprise Administrator". Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 2:32 AM by Brian Desmond | 1 Comments

Upgrading my MCSE

So I have an MCSE: Messaging 2003. Took something like 7 or 8 tests to get that way back when and it's still good. Being the good consultant that I am I decided I'd figure out what I need to do to get whatever the new equivelants are on Windows 2008 and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:38 AM by Brian Desmond | 3 Comments

Loading VMWare 6 Tools on 2008 Server Core

Normally in VMWare when you go "VM>Install VMWare Tools..." with a Windows guest, autorun kicks right in and the installer launches. On server core this isn't the case. You need to launch the MSI by hand. To do this, swich to your CD drive (e.g. "D:"), Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:37 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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How to Sysprep in Windows 2008

I thought I'd document how to setup the new sysprep process equivalent on Windows 2008 since the old setupmgr file for making sysprep.inf's doesn't exist anymore (and neither does sysprep.inf). The first step is acquiring the Windows Automated Installation Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:43 PM by Brian Desmond | 7 Comments
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Windows 2008 - Windows System Image Manager Error

I'm working on adding Windows 2008 to my lab and the first step of this for me anyway is making templates. The whole sysprep process in Vista and Windows 2008 has been completely re-engineered so I'm learning on the go here. Turns out you need to load Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:04 PM by Brian Desmond | 2 Comments
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