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Reminds me of this.... http://blogs-images.forbes.com/timworstall/files/2012/05/ipadbeerbottleopener.jpg

You could use a batch file/powershell command and dism.exe to enable/disable windows search if you have a lot of machines to sort out

It's also fine here as well (no proxies/filtering)

on 10.8 (not sure about lower revisions) there is a checkbox in the advanced settings of the directory utility for something like force local home directory. uncheck this and it should use the network home drive without having to map the H: drive. Also i'm not sure if existing docs/files will be copied over automatically. Sorry for the vague answer but i'm new to macs and can't remember the exact terminology

you can enable the default windows update task (before installing applications) to patch windows, then let MDT install Office and either enable the 2nd default windows update task or create a new task to install office updates (edit the task sequence and add a new windows update task). You should then have a fully patched windows/office install that you can capture for deployment to other systems.

If you are using just WDS (not MDT+WDS), i think you need another unattended file (WDSClientUnattend.xml??) to automate that bit in WinPE. It's been a while since I last used just WDS to deploy operating systems but I seem to remember having to create two unattended files (one for WinPE and one for the operating system).

Does it work if you disable the user state migration task in the deployment task sequence? As for computer naming, you could use the MDT database to set hostnames based on the MAC address of the machine (you could also use the UUID of the machine rather than the MAC address).

Assuming you use WDS/MDT have you deleted the old boot images from WDS and imported the new boot image(s) into WDS?

Have you updated the boot images/deployment share (right click on the deployment share > update) after changing the password?

You can also press f12 to start the network boot (although you have to be quick when using the console in the vsphere client otherwise you'll miss it due to the lag in the console). It may also be worth setting the virtual NIC to bridged mode (as I have had issues with PXE booting using NAT on VirtualBox VMs).

Yes. Search for: Betty White's Off Their Rockers

you could always use the 2p 'mod' as found here: tmp :: c3fada17.jpg picture by darryn_pmr - Photobucket (not my picture) Not the best solution, but it does the job.

A friend of mine had this problem which was fixed by copying the contents of the virtualdj folder (under documents) from the admin to the limited account's documents folder.

It's there in the 2008R2 version of WDS. Edit: was beaten by DMCcoy, but it was a new feature in 2008R2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd735188%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

I think the houses are a navigational aid... I also read somewhere that the A320 is the largest aircraft certified to land at that airport.

Depends on which distribution you use, but for Debian/Ubuntu i find running ' /etc/init.d/samba restart' (without quotes) will restart it. You'll also need to use sudo for ubuntu (ie. sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart). On debian, you'll either need to install/configure sudo (or use the root account which isn't really recommended)

I ended up performing the installation manually as it turned out to be quicker than messing around with unattended installs, so this thread can be deleted/marked solved if needed.

Would creating another deployment share work? So for example you could create a capture share with the SkipCapture=NO and DoCapture=Yes options set, then another share for the techs to use when deploying images to machines with the SkipCapture=YES and DoCapture=NO options.

I'll stick with FS9/FSX as well. I think microsoft have upset a lot of the flightsim community (that use MS FS) judging by posts on avsim/flightsim.

Hi all I've recently been messing around with ESXi 5 (the free version) and kickstart installs, however I've got a few questions relating to keyboard layouts and installing vmware patches. Keyboard layouts: Is there any way to set the UK keyboard layout? I've tried both keyboard uk and keyboard UK (without any success). Will I have to keep manually changing it after installation? Patches: Is there any way of installing patches using kickstart? I've tried using the following in the kickstart (under %firstboot), but it's been unsuccessful: cd /tmp/ wget http://x.x.x.x/ESXi500-201112001.zip esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/ESXi500-201112001.zip #esxcli software vib update --depot="/tmp/ESXi500-201112001.zip" vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit reboot and wget /tmp/ http://x.x.x.x/ESXi500-201112001.zip esxcli software vib update --maintenance-mode --depot /tmp/ESXi500-201112001.zip reboot Is there any way of doing the above things or am I trying to do something that isn't possible? Thanks c_e

I used ESXi as when I set mine up as I wanted to gain some experience of using ESXi (as well as not having a licence for server 2003/2008 at the time) I've never used Hyper-V so cannot comment on that in terms of backups, but for ESXi you could possibly use the vmware converter software to back up the VMs (or this method). As my server is mainly used for testing stuff, I generally don't take backups of the VMs. You could test out each one and see which one you prefer as both offer trial periods (ESXi is around 60 days or so and server 2008 is also 60 days, but you can extend it up to 240 days)

With ESXi you install that onto the machine, then use the vsphere client (or whatever VMware call it now) to connect to the server and create/manage VMs etc. I find that if you have multiple Vista/S2008/7/S2008R2 guests running off the same HDD then things can get a lot slower due to the increased disk IO. Running multiple XP/S2003/linux installs isn't too bad though. As for boot up times, Server 2008R2 is slow for me (anywhere between 5-10 mins depending on how many VMs are accessing the HDD at the same time), but it may be due to the amount of VMs I've got running. It has a USB port rather than an SD card slot - however, you may be able to use an SD card reader instead (I've only used flash drives in mine). The added benefit of the internal USB port is that you can install ESXi to a flash drive and run it from the flash drive.

It seems you can class anything as 'art', including external HDDs full of pirated content. Pirated software hard drive on display as art ? The Register

Not sure how much damage was done to the runway, but this is what the 767 now looks like: [ATTACH=CONFIG]11973[/ATTACH]

Don't you mean Ryanair?