Marc Kean

Setup and remotely manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 – Workgroup environment

To find the network adapters At a command prompt, type the following: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Make a note of the number shown in the Idx column of the output for your network adapter. If your computer has more than one network adapter, make a note of the number corresponding to the network…

Windows Server 2008 – Deployment using Windows Deployment Services (WDS)

For Windows Server 2008 deployment we will be using Windows Deployment Services installed on Windows 2003 – inftwsm005 (149.171.56.13) In a nutshell, on the Windows Server 2008 DVD media you can find two WIM files, boot.wim (PE image) and the other is install.wim (the actual operating systems). The boot.wim file is the very first…

Creating your own Exchange 2007 SSL certificates to publish OWA, Outlook Anywhere & Active Sync with ISA 2006

On your Exchange CAS For Auto Discover New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest:$true -SubjectName "C=AU, O=Company, CN=autodiscover.externalname.com" -DomainName mail.externalname.com, autodiscover.externalname.com, exc2007.internalname.local, autodiscover.internalname.local -FriendlyName "Microsoft Exchange 2007" -Path c:\AutoDiscover_mailcert.req -privatekeyexportable:$true For OWA & Active Sync New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest:$true -SubjectName "C=AU, O=Company, CN=mail.externalname.com" -DomainName mail.externalname.com, autodiscover.externalname.com, exc2007.internalname.local, autodiscover.internalname.local -FriendlyName "Microsoft Exchange 2007" -Path c:\Mail_mailcert.req -privatekeyexportable:$true If you are purchasing a certificate, this…

Exchange 2007 SP1 Outlook Anywhere NTLM authentication for domain based and workgroup based computers

At the University in Sydney they have Exchange Server 2007 installed on Windows Server 2003 servers. They needed a solution for people to use Outlook Anywhere using laptops that were attached to the domain with logged on domain user accounts, also local user accounts with laptops that weren’t on the domain. However, they didn’t want…

Using diskpart.exe with Hyper-V to setup storage

Find the appropriate disk.After logging in for the first time choose option 13 in HVConfig.cmd. This will open the command prompt if one isn’t already opened in the background already. Type the following command to list the disks in your system:diskpart.exeDISKPART> list disk Convert the disk.When you only have one disk in your system…

ISA 2006 – VPN PPTP error

After installing this update on ISA 2006 with SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956570, your PPTP VPN might stop working with error 0x8007274d wsaeconnrefused. When I uninstalled this update from Microsoft, this fixed my VPN and I was able to gain remote access once again.

Convert DVR-MS to .AVI

This will show you how to convert DVR-MS to .AVI, it a two step procedure. First you need to convert to .mpg, then you can convert to .AVI (DivX or Xvid). First off you need ffmpeg_MPGMUX.exe from here. You need to have access to the Media Center DVR-MS files, also a dump location for the…

Build your own custom Vista installation DVD – Unattended Setup

This tutorial will be split into several parts, as I’ll try to cover more and more about how you can make your own fully automated, customized Vista installation DVD, using Microsoft’s official tools. I will cover also Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) “slipstreaming” in the next part of this tutorial. You will see why I…

Symantec Endpoint Protection & Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers

There is a compatibility problem with Windows Server 2008 domain controllers and Symantec Endpoint Protection, servers at the UNSW blue screened randomly and this was the fix, UNSW have premiere support with Microsoft. Keep this with you as I reckon we will need it at come point in time. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037