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While polling the microsoft exchange team site recently, I found this post about an internal tool the dev team has available to them, which recently has been made public. After a quick download and setup of RDCman, I was off and running. I exported my current list of servers straight out of “remote desktops” tool and directly into rdcman. Once some intitial editing was done for credentials to each server (we have two domains, each with different admin credentials), it was time to check it out.  continue reading…

Ahh, so the woes of running Vista continue to pile up. As mentioned at the end of my previous post, I bought a laptop designed for Vista-which has proven to be more stable so far in the short run. But another nice little quirk I found with Vista is it just doesn’t like to attach to legacy wireless devices. On a recent trip to Seattle I found out just how bad it can be. continue reading…

Okay, this probably won’t be what you think (I am misleading you just a little by the title here), but if you want to see a significant increase in performance from Vista, I suggest switching to Server 08 as your workstation. Many administrators prefer to use a server based OS as their primary workstation for several reasons, one of which has not been performance. This all changes with the modular design and function of Server 08. continue reading…

Remember the days of slipstreaming the latest security patches from Microsoft directly into your RIS images? Well, the same can be done with WDS. The process is a little different but works like a charm. Unfortunately, this process does not work for WinXP images, only Vista Images. The following process will slipstream patches into Vista WIM images. continue reading…

In an attempt to make this as easy as possible, here is the quick and dirty on how to get your virtual machines to boot and see the WDS server. This documentation covers both the creation of boot and capture images. continue reading…

First, I have to say that this process is made to look very easy if you follow Microsoft’s documentation, but it will fail if you do. The following howto is the result of several days worth of trial and error, and finally figuring stuff out on my own with some help from posts at technet wds. The resulting CD works in either a non-pxe bootable environment, or if you have NIC’s that are not PXE bootable. The CD also boots you directly into your image store,  bypassing the command prompt screen . continue reading…