Windows Home Server 2011 Backup of UEFI/GPT Windows 8.1
Andy Dawson Aug 11, 2014 · 5 min read · Deployment Permissions Registry Upgrade Windows 8.1 Windows Home Server x64 ·Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 at home, I’ve had issues with backing up the computer using my Home Server (not that I helped by introducing a GPT disk and a UEFI rig at the same time…). The symptoms were that the client backup process appeared stuck at 1% progress for a long time before eventually failing. I finally …
Read MoreRemote Mounting an ISO Image from Hyper-V
Andy Dawson Dec 23, 2011 · 2 min read · Active Directory Hyper-V Hyper-V R2 Permissions Remote management Virtual machines Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 Core Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Windows Server Core ·Building a Hyper-V virtual machine from scratch almost always seems to involve mounting an ISO image at some point during the installation process. I suspect that like us, many other organisations already have a network location in which we store ISO images. The ability to mount an ISO image from our usual network …
Read MoreSharePoint 2007 with multiple domains
Andy Dawson Jul 6, 2011 · 2 min read · Active Directory Permissions SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint ·SharePoint can use multiple domains for user authentication, however I recently came across an issue when setting up an extranet using this scenario. The steps for setting up SharePoint 2007 to use multiple domains for user authentication are relatively simple: Add the second domain as a user profile source in the SSP …
Read MoreAdding domain users to a local machine group using GPO
Andy Dawson Oct 28, 2009 · 2 min read · Active Directory Group Policy Permissions Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 ·To add domain users to a local machine group using Group Policy, we need to use the Restricted Groups feature. For the example shown below, I’ll be using a Windows Server 2003 domain functional level. Create a new global/universal security group in Active Directory to contain the users which you wish to add to the …
Read MoreI’ve recently been looking at PerformancePoint again. During the setup of my initial PerformancePoint test server, I hit an issue when looking at the Dashboard Designer: The error occurs after loading the Dashboard Designer and following the instructions onscreen to ‘refresh to load dashboards’. When I hit the refresh …
Read More“Access is Denied” when crawling content on MOSS 2007 hosted on Windows Server 2008
Andy Dawson Mar 26, 2009 · 2 min read · InfoPath Permissions SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint SQL Windows Server 2008 ·One of the SharePoint farms we’ve built recently runs on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As usual, the installation is a least privileged account setup, with individual accounts running the various services and app pools. The farm is also patched to the latest level. We’ve experienced one or two issues with …
Read MoreInstallation of SCVMM 2008 beta disables non-admin access to remote machines via Hyper-V manager
Yesterday I finally got around to installing SCVMM 2008 beta onto a virtual machine (mainly to help us with some virtual machine migrations we've got coming up). I must say that I think SCVMM 2008 beta is very nice indeed! On my Vista machine I use Tore Lervik's Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar, and have done …
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