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Try changing option 66 to hand out the IP of the terminal server and not the hostname, the client might be having a problem resolving the hostname. Also run "netstat -anb" on your TFTP server, you should see an entry showing the service is ready and listening on port 69... UDP 0.0.0.0:69 *:* [tftpd.exe] Nat,

Hi Chris, Have you had a look through these notes? :: Thinstation FAQ :: When you PXE boot a client does it get an IP? does the RIS menu load? Nat,

Once the new server is ready, I use robocopy to copy any new or modified files from the VM to the rebuilt one. Works well!

We're reinstalling domain controllers in 50 primary schools, at the moment they are all standalone domains. We're joining them all onto a single County AD, the primary servers will all become RODCs then. I frequently run VMWare ESXi on an Optiplex 780 which I take about with me, it has a pair of SATA 1tb discs in it and 8gb of RAM. Its usefull for P2V'ing an existing server onto and the reinstalling the hardware without any major outages. One thing to look out for is VT support on the CPU on your VM host, I originally had an Optiplex 760 but the Dual Core CPU in it didn't have VT, so I couldn't run any 64bit VMs (so no 2008r2). We've been deploying Dell T310 servers to primaries recently, running vanilla 2008, Quad Core, 4gb RAM, 3 x 1tb SAS in RAID5 plus LTO drive. These come in at about £1800, been thinking about trying an Optiplex 780 with a RAID1 card and a pair of 1tbs instead for primaries, we'd be able to replace them quicky if anything failed and would cost £600. Anyone do anything similar?

I provide guest access using a box running pfSense (really a VM), it has an external connection and one to the guest/visitor VLAN. I'm using pfsense 2.0, it's setup to authenticate against AD and has squid running in transparent mode with an upstream proxy configured. The Captive Portal service prompts users for their AD login, all seems to work well

We have a server running Splunk to store our logs, its got a really nice interface. All servers then have Snare installed, its configured to turn the Windows event logs into syslog and send them to Splunk. Splunk is like google for our event logs, I've setup reports for finding who has logged in in the last 30mins, what documents are being printed, password changes, connections to our VPNs etc. It also produces nices graphs so you can see trends. The free version does the job just fine Nat

Hi bart21, I like using WIX to create MSI, its opensource and created by Microsoft. WixEdit (opensource) and InStyler (free for non-commerical) are both good WIX package creators. Hope this helps. Nat,