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An Answer to Pre-staging Hell: Add Machines Directly from PXE Boot

When you are working with Windows Deployment Services, you can have specific images restored on specific images on your infrastructure. In order to do this, I thought you needed to have the machines pre-staged on the Active Directory.

Which Nodes Ran my Job?

When you submit a job to be run in a Compute Cluster Server, you will find some information about the running tasks at the bottom pane. Information such as error output, task name, and so on is shown, but there is one vital piece of information that should be shown by default and it is […]

Go Away, F12! (or how to disable F12 at bootime to boot into WinPE)

While looking for a way to fully automate the installation of wim image file to a server, we immediately stumbled upon a small problem.   When doing a PXE boot, the boot rom imaged asked for the F12 key to be pressed.  If the key was not pressed, the machine booted normally into Windows.

Virtual Machine Configuration Assistant

Technorati tags: Virtual Server 2005, Virtual Server COM API, Virtual Machine Manager As I previously mentioned, I’ve had some chance of working on the application dubbed as the Virtual Machine Configuration Assistant in the last few days.   One of the most noticeable changes are the GUI.  This is the old GUI of the app: This […]

Why can’t I delete a file in Windows?

Have you ever tried to delete a file in Windows only to be greeted with the message that it cannot be deleted because it is being used by another person or program?

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