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Microsoft Management Summet 2011
by Ryan Shugart 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Greetings: To the other Windows admins out there, I was wondering if anyone else was going to MMS this year or had ever gone? Looking at the web site (http://www.mms-2011.com) it looks like there will be quite a few presentations I'll benefit from on the systems management track, but before making my case to the boss I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle such a thing as a blind person. I've heard its very fast paced, and it'll be in a rather large venue. Chances are that I'd be the only one there from my company. So, was just curious if anyone's tried this before and how it worked out? Thanks. Ryan

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Microsoft Management Summet 2011
by Ryan Shugart 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Greetings: To the other Windows admins out there, I was wondering if anyone else was going to MMS this year or had ever gone? Looking at the web site (http://www.mms-2011.com) it looks like there will be quite a few presentations I'll benefit from on the systems management track, but before making my case to the boss I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle such a thing as a blind person. I've heard its very fast paced, and it'll be in a rather large venue. Chances are that I'd be the only one there from my company. So, was just curious if anyone's tried this before and how it worked out? Thanks. Ryan

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Truely unattended win 7 install?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hey all, Was just wondering if anyones been able to make a truely unattended windows 7 install? I don't mind about the partition selection, but even if I automate everything that I can using vLite, I still have to confirm some things durin the install such as regional information. What seems strange is that the key sequences don't seem to be consistant for the stuff that isn't automated across different installs which is making it pretty hard for me to do this on my own. Asa side note, when ever I try and get vLite to skip the user creation screen, the iso that it makes won't ever install due to install.wim being corrupted. I'm using a windows 7 ultimate oem disk at the moment which seems to work just fine if the install is attended. Any thoughts are welcome; I was able to make a unattended disk that worked perfectly fine when I was installing the RC, but I just can't get it to work now. Cheers, Ben.

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windows 7 not respecting administrators group server 2003
by Nehemiah Hall 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

I'm at a loss here. I'm a member of the administrators group on a server 2003 domain. We just put several windows 7 machines onto the domain, but none of them will allow me to make any changes that require UAC permission. It doesn't give me any error, it just keeps giving the same UAC prompt, asking for username and password. Suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Nehemiah Email/MSN: nrh(a)n-republic.net Twitter: miahtech Skype: trekky-techie AIM: NehemiahRepublic

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Newbe Server 2008 R2
by Barry Toner 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi folks, Let me say first of all I've little to no experience of this. Other than a year 3 years back assisting in a large Software House with Server 2003. I've install Server 2008 R2 at home. I've assigned it as a DC and install Active Directory. I'm flying by the seat of my pants and don't know what i'm doing. I want to be able to log-on to the Active Directory service using my laptop. Poked around in Active Directory and I created a Computer object under tx.r2.com (which is the address I gave my DC). I then created a User Object for myself. Now what? Is there tutorials or something? I can of course sift through the Microsoft documentation, but this is such an massive product and already I am drowning. Help! Cheers, Barry.

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SCSI cards
by Ryan Shugart 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi: I was just curious if anyone has ever seen this before, its baffling everyone else I talk to and I'm about at the bang head on desk point. We have a backup server, it was running Windows Server 2003, and had an HP SCSI card inside that is basically a rebranded LSI Ultra 320. We were getting really fast backups, Backup Exec reported the average speed of 2GB per minute, and while someone said we could have even gone faster, that was plenty for us so I never bothered. Anyway, right before Christmas, I wiped the drive, installed Windows Server 2008R2 and installed the latest Backup Exec 2010. Everything works fine accept that the drive now backs up at about 100MB per minute. HP's Library and Tape Tools indicate the SCSI bandwidth has gone down to 5MBPS and should be at least 20MBPS. I don't know a lot about SCSI, but its almost like the card has fallen back to an older form of SCSI in some kind of backwards compatibility mode. The WS2008R2 drivers are up to date, and cabling wise nothing has changed from when it was working. I've gone to Symantec, Quantum (the vendor of the tape library) and HP and they all blame someone else in the chain. So I'm just curious if anyone knows what could cause something like this to happen? Thanks. Ryan

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SCSI cards
by Ryan Shugart 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi: I was just curious if anyone has ever seen this before, its baffling everyone else I talk to and I'm about at the bang head on desk point. We have a backup server, it was running Windows Server 2003, and had an HP SCSI card inside that is basically a rebranded LSI Ultra 320. We were getting really fast backups, Backup Exec reported the average speed of 2GB per minute, and while someone said we could have even gone faster, that was plenty for us so I never bothered. Anyway, right before Christmas, I wiped the drive, installed Windows Server 2008R2 and installed the latest Backup Exec 2010. Everything works fine accept that the drive now backs up at about 100MB per minute. HP's Library and Tape Tools indicate the SCSI bandwidth has gone down to 5MBPS and should be at least 20MBPS. I don't know a lot about SCSI, but its almost like the card has fallen back to an older form of SCSI in some kind of backwards compatibility mode. The WS2008R2 drivers are up to date, and cabling wise nothing has changed from when it was working. I've gone to Symantec, Quantum (the vendor of the tape library) and HP and they all blame someone else in the chain. So I'm just curious if anyone knows what could cause something like this to happen? Thanks. Ryan

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removing avast5?
by David Mehler 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Hello, Does anyone have a procedure to remove avast5 from a machine? Add/remove programs won't do it due to the fact that the program has a self protection module. Thanks. Dave

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SQL Server 2008 R2 with Jaws 12
by Andrew Hodgson 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Hi, Anyone here used the above with SQL Server 2008 R2 management studio? I am getting very inconsistent reading of the left-hand pane where we have the master tree view of the databases, management objects etc. I am having to double check all the work I am doing on that side of the screen with the Jaws cursor at the moment, to ensure I hit on the right object... The rest of the system is working fine. Thanks. Andrew.

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SQL Server 2008 R2 with Jaws 12
by Andrew Hodgson 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi, Anyone here used the above with SQL Server 2008 R2 management studio? I am getting very inconsistent reading of the left-hand pane where we have the master tree view of the databases, management objects etc. I am having to double check all the work I am doing on that side of the screen with the Jaws cursor at the moment, to ensure I hit on the right object... The rest of the system is working fine. Thanks. Andrew.

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