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    Free VM. I suppose we could probably use the downgrade rights in some way to get Enterprise but I'd rather keep things standardised where possible and all our other VMs are Datacenter (except two Windows 2003 VMs we have - a Terminal Server and the existing FSMO master DC!)
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    Thanks Sukh There certainly doesn't seem to be anything which could interfere but still... Please let us know when you hear back from MS Thank you!
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    See that's what I thought but I keep asking myself 'why mention it under Domain Controllers but not Schema Master or Global Catalog?'
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    Hey everyone We're about to start deploying Ex2010 but I'm confused: MS say that in a 2008R2 environment, the minimum requirements for the Schema Master are 2008R2 Standard or Enterprise but makes no mention of Datacenter The same is true for Global Catalog server requirements When you get to Domain Controllers, however, it does list Datacenter as well as Enterprise and Standard Does this mean I have to have a 2008R2 Standard/Enterprise machine around despite having Datacenter licenses? My head says this can't be correct as there's no real difference between Ent and Data, but why list it as valid for one situation and not for others?
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    Sorry - should have made things clearer! Not planning on raising the functional level (yet), I was just trying to illustrate that I remember restarting *at some point* including when raising the level! So general consensus is that I will probably not need to restart Thank you!
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    Hi guys We're looking at adding a 2008 R2 DC to an existing 2003 environment. I know that I'll have to update the AD schema with adprep on the Schema Master etc, but will I have to reboot my DCs? I ask as I remember adding a 2008 R1 DC to a 2003 environment and raising the functional level. When we raised the level, we had to restart all the DCs but I don't remember if I had to do this after preparing AD for the first server as well Any ideas? Thanks!
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    Thanks, I'll have a go at that as soon as I can!
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    Hi everyone I'm trying to set up ThinStation to point at either our VMWare ESX or any of our RDP servers as a proof of concept but I can't make head nor tail of how to do anything with it All I want is a 'LiveCD' but ThinStation and I seem to have very different idea of what a LiveCD is - I'm used to Linux LiveCDs where I download an ISO and burn it to disc. I put this in a PC and switch the machine on. It boots from the CD as if I had installed the contents on the hard disk but without making any changes to the installed O/S This is what I want to do but if this isn't possible (I have no idea how the livecd.exe you can download from their site fits in to my understanding of a LiveCD...) then I would settle for having to install it on a VM as I have VirtualBox which should be ok for it but I can't find any documentation anywhere which discusses tells me how to really do any of this! I have found some bits which say 'modify the build.conf as required for your hardware' but I've also read somewhere that the build.conf isn't really one specific file or something crazy like that! If anyone knows any resources that can help (or knows what I've misread) then I'd really appreciate it! Thanks
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    Didn't know OSX Server had any support for virtualisation! That's still pretty cool and certainly nice for anyone wanting to get an OSX server set up without outlay for some powerful Apple hardware OSX is an option on my Win XP install of VB. Cool
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    Licence agreements don't stop software manufacturers - it's only the customers (you and me) who would be breaking the agreement if we tried to install the software on a VM It's probably only available for OSX hosts anyway - Parallels has a Mac product which can virtualise OSX
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    Does anyone know if this is OSX as a guest on a Windows/Linux host? If so, that would make a massive difference in a test environment, especially if you can virtualise OSX Server (that would make a difference in a production environment, too!)
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    Chrome uses the Control Panel Internet Options so you won't have to lock that down any more than normal but its own settings are open for all Given that it's open source, you could always write your own version with them locked... ;-)
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    Extract it anywhere, go in to the "ManagePC\bin\Release" folder to find the exe. Works with AD to find the list of computers and integrates with your VNC viewer. Loads of great information. Only just getting to grips with it but hoping it works as an auditing tool! ManagePC | Get ManagePC at SourceForge.net
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    What's all that from? the MSInfo32.exe you mentioned? This site is for sending to users who don't know their system well ("Go here and e-mail me the results using the buttons at the top" style)
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    Ah, it'll probably just be aware of the Kernal or something as 2008R2 is the server version of Win 7 and since it's only meant to be used for gathering info for tech support, it probably doesn't expect you to be running Server!
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    Lol! Works fine when I try it! What are you running?
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    Support Details | Tech Support Management Pulls info about your computer through the web and allows you to e-mail it to someone. Have suggested they add a few things to it so we'll see how that goes!
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    Tried all of those things, thanks Michael Turned out it was F-Secure. I had to go in to the Settings > Network Connections > Application Control > Settings and choose "Ask about new programs", run IE (also FireFox as it was also blocked by F-Secure) and then put the options back to where they were It never actually popped up asking what to do with IE or FF when set to 'Ask...' but since then it's been fine. No idea why F-Secure likes the unpatched version or IE8 with the same update applied to it or why F-Secure is happy now, but there you have it!
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    Further to that, the MS09-072 patch has now started installing on our network (KB976325 - the one which the MS10-002 patch in my first post replaced) and is doing the same thing! Starting to look at the network hardware and firewall systems as likely candidates now
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    We just sent out the MS10-002 (KB978207) critical patch to our network via WSUS. We have a Windows XP network using mostly IE7 and have found a substantial number of users now cannot browse the Internet through IE7. This issue does not appear to affect any IE8 or IE6 users (though I can't verify that) and does not affect all IE7 users. The only resolution we have found so far is to visit each computer and manually uninstall the patch but I can't do that to every computer with this problem - do you have any idea what is causing this and what can be done to fix it? Thanks
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    Hi guys I've got a member of staff trying to connect to our VPN over a 3G dongle. This works fine for them when logging on as certain accounts but this one person (who used to be able to log on fine) can't now, ever since a 'routine password change' The problem seems to be that: They need their VPN to authenticate their user creds They need their Internet Connection running to run the VPN They need to be logged in to run their Internet Connection go to line 1 Any idea how I can get their credentials on to their computer so they can log in again? Thanks
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    Hey man Those ideas sound awesome but I don't know how I can help write them - I'll cast an eye over the deployment one for some basic checks but don't know how to do any of what you've written about apart from deploy simple images to one hardware platform at a time
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    Hey guys Never got a working solution here but I was thinking that the ideal would be that I can set a 'master' password which unlocks all menu items (i.e. I set the password once and no matter what entry I click on (apart from Boot from Hard Disk), it asks for the same password so it doesn't have to be set on each item - is that possible? Thanks
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    Finally got it working - one site told me to dismount the floppy after finding out what it's /dev entry was. I decided to ignore this and try dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/media/gpxe which was, unsurprisingly, unsuccessful, but then I tried dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/dev/sdb and it worked! Moral of this story: Just because one website says dismount the thing you're trying to write to, doesn't mean that they're right...
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    Hey Andy, thanks for the reply but I'm a bit confused: If passwd is an empty string, this menu entry can only be unlocked with the master password. Does that mean that if I set a master password and then leave the other options blank, ALL menu options will use the same one? If so, that would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet --- Use the included Perl scripts "sha1pass" or "md5pass" to encrypt passwords. MD5 passwords are compatible with most Unix password file utilities; SHA-1 passwords are probably unique to Syslinux; SHA-2 passwords are compatible with very recent Linux distributions. Obviously, if you don't encrypt your passwords they will not be very secure at all. How do I use these? Sorry - bit of a Linux newbie
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