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• Using XP Mode in Windows 7

  One of the major challenges with moving to a new OS is dealing with older applications.  This was an issue with the release of Windows Vista and in order to mitigate that with Windows 7, Microsoft has released a feature called XP Mode, which runs Read More... Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:36 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Sync DSRM and Domain Admin Passwords

  Setting a password for Directory Services Restore Mode is something that is done during the setup of Active Directory.  As a best practice it has always been recommended to change that password on a regular basis, as you would with any other password.  Read More... Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 2 Comments Filed under: Directory Services, rodney.buike

• Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration

  A lot of people are making the switch from Virtual Server to Hyper-V lately.  I’ve done it on my home network and Thelazyadmin.com servers are in progress of moving to Hyper-V as well.  While you can simply copy over the VHD and create a new Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:25 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, rodney.buike

• Create a “Bootable” Windows 7 VHD

  A few weeks back we posted an entry on how to boot from a Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 VHD . Booting from VHD is new to Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 but one of the caveats was you needed a “clean” VHD to boot from. There is a very simple way to create Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:48 PM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – Offline Domain Join

  For as long as we have had Active Directory domains, we have been required to to join client to the domain while they were online and connected to AD. Without that the join would fail. Now you always had the ability to join with a script using the NETDOM Read More... Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Directory Services, Windows Server, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – .NET and PS in Core

  The one thing I missed with Server Core was PowerShell. While you can run PowerShell cmdlets and scripts remotely, at times it would have been nice to run it locally. The reason PowerShell was not included was due to the lack of .NET in Server Core. That Read More... Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Windows Server, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – Core Parking

  Green IT, Green IT, everywhere you turn there is something about Green IT.  With increased power and cooling costs a lot of people are using virtualization to reduce these costs but Windows Server 2008 R2 brings a new feature called Core Parking Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – Live Migration

  I can’t think of any feature we’ve been asked more in regards to Hyper-V has been around Live Migration, known as VMotion in the VMWare world. Hyper-V R2 now supports Live Migration, partly due to Cluster Shared Volumes . Live Migration allows a virtual Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – Cluster Shared Volumes

  One of the challenges faced with clustered Hyper-V servers today is that for each VHD on a highly available virtual machine, you need to carve out a LUN on your SAN to place that VHD. While it might not be a monumental task to do so, it is a management Read More... Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtualization, Windows Server, rodney.buike

• What’s New in 2008 R2 – Branch Cache

  Do more with less? Ever hear that term? Probably around the same time your budget was cut! Bandwidth between the home office and the branches can be a rather large cost from the actual money spent on the connection to the user downtime when the connection Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, rodney.buike

• Mount a VHD Within Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2

  There is a lot of VHD integration in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.  We already showed how to boot from VHD but you can also mount a VHD from within a Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 environment. Open up Disk Management, you can Right-Click on Computer Read More... Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Windows 7 Top 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

  There are a number of new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 that allow you to do more without removing your hands from the keyboard. Here are my favorite 7! WIN + T – With the new taskbar and the way apps dock there, this shortcut will open the preview Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Windows 7 Problem Step Recorder

  OK I found this while poking around and must say this is a helpdesk and developer savior. How many times have you been on the phone with someone while trying to troubleshoot a problem and you just can’t tell what they are doing wrong? While there are Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:59 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Windows 7 Boot From VHD

  One of a new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a VHD. It is pretty simple to enable this feature and have it ready at your disposal! Before you begin you should note the following… You can only boot a Windows Read More... Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 6:39 PM by rodney.buike | 5 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Adding Files to your Windows 7 Install Media

  Having been on an install binge with the release of the first public beta of Windows 7 I ran into an issue with my Asus Eee PC 901 and the video driver. While the install went fine in a VirtualPC VM as well as a Dell D830 and Dell E4300 the Eee PC and Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 9:30 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Installing Windows 7 via USB or SD Media

  So Windows 7 beta is out the door and you are ready to begin your beta experience. Over the next few months there will be additional builds for Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 and that leads to a lot of installs and a lot of Read More... Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:32 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Critical Out Of Band Hotfix for IE Released

  Typically hotfixes are released on the second Tuesday of each month as you are all well aware. Occasionally, I can personally only remember four including this one and the one this past October, there are out of band hotfixes released. While we don’t Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:04 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, rodney.buike

• Removing a Windows Server 2008 DC

  Hardware dies, it always has and it always will eventually.  And if you ever had a Windows 2000/2003 domain controller die on you, you’ve no doubt gone through the painless but time consuming process of removing a failed DC.  I wrote an article Read More... Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:19 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Directory Services, rodney.buike

• IIS 7 FTP over SSL

  One of the new and long awaited features in IIS 7 is support for FTPS or FTP over SSL. By default all FTP data is transfered in clear text, including the user name and password. From a security point of view you can see this is a bad thing. FTPS to the Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:10 AM by rodney.buike | 2 Comments Filed under: IIS, Security, Windows Server, rodney.buike

• Critical Out Of Band Hotfix Released

  Typically hotfixes are released on the second Tuesday of each month as you are all well aware. Occasionally, I can personally only remember three including this one, there are out of band hotfixes released. While we don’t normally post hotfix release Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:46 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Server, Windows Client, rodney.buike