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I started dealing with multi-domained Windows forests and many of the scripts and group policy settings currently being used only work with a single domain set up, or would work better if the domain name was taken into consideration. For example, folder redirection for two users named James Smith, but who work in totally different [...]

I got my new HP workstation with 9GB RAM and a fancy quad core CPU a while back and it’s been running real spiffy… but after loading VMware Server 2.0 on it, I found the guest machines running on this bruiser of a machine had truly abysmal network performance… I mean Kbps transfer rates on [...]

I’ve been using a KeySpan USB server for years with my various workstations, but I figured it would be a good way to connect USB devices to virtual Win2k3 R2 servers running on VMware ESX hosts, since connecting directly to a USB port on the host is not an option. After an hour of fighting [...]

Updating a server’s RAID controller firmware the other day, I got an odd dialog window. The dialog window said that the installed version was “2.8.0.64″ and the update being installed was “2.24.0.64″, which looks like a downgrade. However, after checking the management console it became clear that the installed version was actually “2.08.0.64″… so my [...]