Today I decided to rebuild my computer system because it was running slower than usual. after doing a complete back up of my files, and installing the OS, I have spent the last two hours installing updates, and security patches. it’s been more than 45 minutes since I started downloading Windows 7 SP1 through the windows updates, and still 24%…

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Hyper-V 2008 R2 can be ran as bare metal or hosted hypervisor. the bare metal hypervisor is free and can be downloaded from the following link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd776191 and the hosted hypervisor requires a Windows 2008 license. both hypervisors use Windows 2008 OS, the difference is that in Hyper-V bare metal Windows 2008 is customized to only run Hyper-V in server…

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If you have a Hyper-V server in a workgroup and you want to manage it remotely from a client computer in a different domain, then you will have to configure the server to allow connections from a client in a different domain. the process is a pain, but luckily there is a script that do that for you with just…

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Hyper-V 2008 R2 is 1.50 GB big, so it cannot be burned to a CD-RW media. the media needs to be either DVD-RW or a USB flash drive with 2 GB of free space or more. I know the DVD media is widely used for Hyper-V installations, but I find the installation from a USB drive to be quicker. so…

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Lenovo laptop T400 and T410i series video cards need the vendor drivers to be installed in order to work properly. even Windows 7 needs the vendor video drivers to get the full screen resolution the video card is capable of. Lenovo T400 comes with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series and Lenovo T410i comes with Intel GMA HD graphics…

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If you are a webmaster then probably you use an FTP client to update web files on a web server regularly. I frequently use an FTP client to update this blog, and some other websites I have, and to do that I use either Filezilla or WinSCP FTP client. but the question is, which client is better and why? I…

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In the last 5 posts we installed Ubuntu, and Clonezilla to massively clone multiple computers through the network. if you landed to this page from a search engine, please take a look at the previous posts. Windows 7 Network Installation Installing Ubuntu Server 10.10 Clonezilla Server Installation Creating An Image Of A Hard Drive With Clonezilla One critical thing that…

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Now that we have Ubuntu and Clonezilla  server up and running, is time to get our hands dirty with the real purpose for this thing. if this is the first post that you are reading about this series, I recommend you read the rest of the posts to get acquainted with what I been doing. Windows 7 Network Installation Installing…

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Remind users to change their domain password is important to prevent security vulnerabilities on the network. there are many password reset and password change reminder tools out there that you can use to remind people to change their password, but if you have a tight budget, and a small users database in your AD, this script probably will work for…

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Now that we got Ubuntu server up and running, is time to install Clonezilla server. if you haven’t read the first two posts on the series, I recommend you do. here are the links: Windows 7 Network Installation Installing Ubuntu Server the first thing we need to configure on Ubuntu server is the two Ethernet cards required to successfully install…

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