Major annoyance to any organization that has hostnames like foo.bar.domain.com — Windows 7 and Vista appends domain.com to bar, but not foo.bar. After some digging I finally found a registry hack that restores ‘proper’ functionality like any other OS or older version of windows. Create a DWORD ‘AppendToMultiLabelName’ with a value of 1 in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE [...]
For PV ethernet support in the guest, you’ll need these drivers now available from the Fedora project: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
SAM4 has a slightly different database format and filesystem layout than SAM3. You should not try an in-place upgrade, or bad things can happen. The best way to upgrade if you have a large or refined playlist, is to install SAM4 along side SAM3 and copy the playlist tables over. This way you can leave [...]
If the file is not in the %systemroot%\system32\dns directory, the full path to the zone file will be shown on the General tab. Since most zone data is held in the registry, restoring the %systemroot%\system32\dns from backup isn’t enough – you’ll need to manually populate the DNS zones in the DNS console, and choose the [...]
Method 1 In Windows Server 2008, there is an option in Local Security Policy. Click on Start and then Administrative Tools and then click on Local Security Policy. In Local Security Policy, click on Account Policies and then click on Password Policy. Under Password Policy, double click on “Password must meet complexity requirements” and then [...]
To copy entire directory structures as quickly as possible and ignore all disk errors (useful in data recovery) either of the following commands should work with robocopy being the quickest (if you’ve got Vista/7 or XP with the XP Resource Kit installed). Both commands use source -> destination path order. xcopy /C/H/R/S/Y c:\ d:\ /C [...]
It would appear that Microsoft likes to keep files needed for critical core functionality of .NET, in folders called ‘temp’. I ran into an issue where contents of a bulging temp folder were deleted, in turn destroying all installed versions of .NET. Windows Update began failing, and the ability to update or reinstall .NET was [...]
This issue comes up every so often. No matter what, even if you manually define all the passive ports in Windows firewall, add an exception for inetinfo.exe, the works, certain directory listings still hang on the client end. This issue is apparent only with the Firewall enabled — disabling the firewall allows the listings to [...]
Auto-playlist generator for converting any PHP enabled website hosting account into an on-demand stream server.
Mount a WinPE image: dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:winpe.wim /index:1 /MountDir:mount Inject PNP drivers into the WinPE image: Dism /image:mount /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers\blah\mydriver.inf Un-mount and commit the image: Dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:mount /Commit See what’s in the image: imagex /info install.wim Merge images: imagex /export source.wim 1 destination.wim “Image Name” /compress maximum Create a boot cd ISO: oscdimg -n [...]