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Editing CustomSettings.ini in MDT

Posted on January 26, 2010, by Todd, under Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

One of the neat things you can do with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is you can customize it to show or hide screens when running through the deployment wizard.

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Exchange 2007 to 2010 Migration

Posted on January 10, 2010, by Todd, under Exchange Server.

An upcoming project I have at work is to migrate our Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server to Microsoft Exchange 2010. There is no direct upgrade from 2007 to 2010, and my Exchange 2007 server is running Windows Server 2003 x64.

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Pause Task Sequence in MDT 2010

Posted on January 6, 2010, by Todd, under Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

With a new year comes new images for my MDT servers. At TechDays in Ottawa, I presented the MDT session in the client track on Day 1. Afterwards, I had some great discussions with a few people from major Canadian government offices. One of my challenges has been how to add extra software to an image which doesn’t have a great silent install. What I had been doing was building the machine using MDT, then when it was done, adding unfriendly software, patches, etc. to the build after. This is a pain as you have to then Sysprep the image, boot into a Windows PE environment then capture the image using ImageX.

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Microsoft TechDays Ottawa – Day 2

Posted on December 14, 2009, by Todd, under Training.

The second day of TechDays Ottawa saw better weather. Day 1 had a terrible snow storm, but despite that, turn out was quite good. I don’t have numbers on how many people came out either day.

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Blue Screen of Death Appears at TechDays Ottawa

Posted on December 10, 2009, by Todd, under Training.

The dreaded blue screen of death has appeared at TechDays here in Ottawa.

Blue Screen of Death in WINRE TechDays Demo

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OttawaSQL.net December Event: SQL Server Linked Servers and Failover Clusters

Posted on November 26, 2009, by David, under User Groups.

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Remote Connection Technology

Posted on November 4, 2009, by Todd, under Web/Tech.

With the Swine Flu H1N1 virus going around, chances are you may have staff or yourself needing to be able to work remotely. Some might be off for the flu itself, others may be off work to care for loved ones who have fallen ill. Regardless of the reason, as a network administrator one of our tasks is going to be supporting staff and allowing them to connect back into the office. Some of us who are already supporting road warriors might find we need to scale up our solution and some of us will need to design and deploy a whole new solution. Continue Reading...

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OttawaSQL.net Event: Increase Performance of your SQL Server Applications, Michelle Gutzait

Posted on November 3, 2009, by David, under User Groups.

clip image002 OttawaSQL.net Event: Increase Performance of your SQL Server Applications, Michelle Gutzait

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Time Change Tonight – Setting the Time Source in Linux

Posted on October 31, 2009, by Todd, under Linux, Web/Tech.

Just a reminder to everyone (at least in North America) that time changes tonight. We fall back an hour and gain an hour of sleep.  Always check your systems tomorrow to ensure they changed correctly.

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Using an Answer file in Virtual Machine Manager

Posted on October 27, 2009, by Todd, under Virtualization.

I have rebuilt my Hyper-V server at the office and decided to try out Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to manage my virtual machines on that host.

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