http://www.nuclearweasels.com Tech stuff from Dan Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:19:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently purchased Ghost Suite 2.5 from Symantec. In testing we noticed an issue where by if you tried to deploy the Ghost Client to a PC in a workgroup it would fail with the following error message. Failed to install: \\PC780 (7): Connection: Logon failure. Possible reasons are: 1. Incorrectly specified password and/or username. 2. ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/06/ghost-suite-client-simple-file-sharing/ I recently installed the RC of Windows 7 along with it I installed Steam. What followed was an issue where the software refused to load Steam.dll. The issue was related to the fact the corporate firewall was blocking steams port, in my case I added the machine to the CMP allow rule ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/06/steam-on-windows-7/ Success, the automatic wiping of my Nokia N95 8Gig worked at around 21:15 PM last night. Proving beyond a doubt that the technology can be rolled out for use at work. It’s just a pity that we rolled out the software nearly 6 months ago, and that I finished ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/05/mobile-device-wipe-works/ Here at the office we've wanted to enable wake on lan for our GX270's for some time, today I finally figured out how. In addition to enabling wol in the bios you also have to set the power save mode to S3 and ensure that low power mode is switched off. Hope ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2009/03/wake-on-lan-dell-gx270/ Following my recent tweets regarding the number of servers were I work, I've had some feed back asking exactly how we have that many servers / services running here. I will now attempt to explain it as best I can. The company I work for (like many other companies of its ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/12/the-big-four-oh/ One of our domain controllers has been unable to request a Domain Controller Certification from our CertServer for a few weeks now, I traced the issue down to the DCom settings. The fix can be found in KB903220 ~Dan http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/12/domain-controller-auto-enrolement-issues/ Yesterday I wrote about Hyper-V and how we plan to trail it, for those of you who haven't read that entry yet you can find it here. We pick up today with a base Server 2008 install, we're running 64 Bit Enterprise level Server 2008 to which we have applied all ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/11/hyper-v-initial-testing/ I was just reading up on Server 2008 Release 2, it appears that it will be 64 Bit only. Looks like a lot of work for me to get our systems on 64 bit hardware. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/r2.aspx ~Dan http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/11/x64-only/ The company I work for has spent a year trying to use Virtuozzo for its server Virtualisation, after a year of poor service and several interesting issues we have made the decision to move away from Virtuozzo as a virtualisation platform. In the time we spent on Virtuozzo Microsoft released Hyper-V, ... http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/11/hyper-v/ Relevant information for me, thought it might be of interest to you. http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/08/06/renaming-a-moss-server.aspx http://www.nuclearweasels.com/2008/10/renaming-a-moss2k7-server/