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Wikipedia quotes aside, that did happen so other than shrugging I have nothing else to offer about my own experience. Also from experience is that DNS can be completely shot and the install should still complete, it should just complete with errors. Of course I could be wrong, I am frequently, I was merely trying to offer an alternative suggestion than a DNS related problem. For all I know the installation media could have been corrupt and copied garbage installer files over during the base OS install.

It's a 2008 R2 Domain Controller? Because my 2008 R2 server was just fine with 2GB until I promoted it and then it simply would not come up until I added more memory.

Please make sure your server has 4gb of ram or more... 2008 dc will hang if less is installed.

Is it wrong that I want my own shipping container data centre?

iphones can be useful in a pinch but with the much smaller screen are harder to use for the same tasks... Great apps I use are: AD Helpdesk: AD HelpDesk for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store PC Monitor: PC Monitor for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store LogMeIn: LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store Kypass & Dropbox: KyPass for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store / Dropbox for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store Plus a load of other useful tools like xmarks and office/productivity applications... Well worth investigating for either platform.

Sound advice, if a little off. You are allowed to carry all but a few knives in the UK (The Criminal Justice Act 1988 limits these to a few exotic martial arts weapons, automatic (or "flick") knives and butterfly knives (where two split handles swing like wings around the knife to close or open it.) as long as you have a good reason. Carrying your tools to your place of work is a good reason, I forgot to take my tools off my belt when I went to the pub is a bad reason. You are not required to have a good reason if your knife has a non-locking blade and the blade is under 2" (3 inches) long - so just about most old timer pen knives are fine in most places. I'm a bit anal about this as I think the knife is a very underrated tool for loads of things from opening boxes to stripping cable sheath and popping the retainers on badly made CAT-5 cables etc and I dislike my rights being erroded so that it's not enough I will never cut another person, even carrying a tool is an offence. But back on topic (SORRY!) A decent multitool from Gerber or Leatherman is a godsend. An iPad (if you can blag one) is an amazing tool with the right apps. A USB key with lots of portable applications (all the good ones have been mentioned) is invaluable.

I made this recently for a customer, maybe someone will find it useful. As with most scripts used in the world, this is not entirely new source and was not created by me 100%. If I remember where I got the bulk of it, I will credit the author(s). 'execute an ipconfig to the local machine and store the ouput in the stdout text stream Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") set objExec = objShell.Exec("%comspec% /c ipconfig.exe") 'loop through the stream looking for key phrase "IPv4 Address" do while NOT (objExec.Stdout.AtEndOfStream) strLine = objExec.Stdout.ReadLine if(inStr(strLine, "IPv4 Address")) then 'Parse strLine to obtain IP. strIP = trim(right(strLine, len(strLine) - inStrRev(strLine, ":"))) exit do end if loop arrTokens = split(strIP, ".") select case arrTokens(2) '3rd token/octet'If the client IP address is X.X.100.X map Printer_1, wait for 2 seconds then make Printer_1 the default case "100" objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\Printer_1" WScript.Sleep 2000 objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\Printer_1" 'If the client IP address is X.X.200.X map Printer_2 and Printer_3, wait for 2 seconds then make Printer_3 the default case "200" objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\Printer_2" objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\Printer_3" WScript.Sleep 2000 objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\Printer_3" 'If the client IP address is X.X.300.X map Printer_4, wait for 2 seconds then make Printer_4 the default case "300" objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\Printer_4" WScript.Sleep 2000 objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\Printer_4" end select If you are running Windows XP, you will need to replace "IPv4 Address" with just "IP Address" to make it work.

If you are going to have a sheep-dip machine in reception, there are a few good things you can do to make it really worth while. 1. Use a different anti virus application than you do on the rest of your computers, this will increase your chances of detecting something nasty. 2. Where you will switch off some options as a trade off to speed on your desktop PCs, enable every single option you can on your sheep dip PC. If that's all the PC is being used for people won't mind it being a bit slower. 3. Update as often as you can, weekly is absolutely too infrequent to be safe. Most modern anti-virus applications check for updates every 4 hours so daily updates should be a minimum. 4. Consider running a dedicated malware scanner also, there are some decent free ones around such as superantispyware, unlike running two anti-virus applications, this should not cause a conflict. 5. Consider running something like DeepFreeze to completely lock the state of the sheep dip PC as even with all of the precautions that can be taken, in time (in some cases a very long time), your odds of infection are 100% and the ability to instantly revert to a known clean state is invaluable.