Installing Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 without the System Reserved Partition

If you are thinking about using VMware with Windows 2008 R2 server, you are going to want to eliminate the 100 MB System Reserved Partition at installation.  If you are not using BitLocker on your servers, it will only give you headaches.  Below are the quick and easy steps to head off a potential headache. […]

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Internet Explorer Trusted Sites Not Applying via Group Policy to Windows XP Computers

Settings this normally through the User Configuration => Policies => Windows Settings => Internet Exploirer Maintenance => Security => Security Zones and Content Rating “Applying the trusted sites through these settings, can give the error “You have chosen to import settings that are compatible with computers that don’t have the Internet Explorer Enchanced Security Configuration […]

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Problems Installing Dell OpenManage Administrator on Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit.)

Error 1935: An Error occourred during the installation of assembly ‘Microsoft.VC80.CRT,type=”win32″,version”8.0.50727.42″,publickeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,processorArchitecture=”x86″. Please refer to help and support for more infor……. This appears to be caused by a failure of the .net framework not being installed or is corrupted. Only things I could find say to reinstall or install it. So started with .net 2.0. Download […]

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Dell Latitude E5420 and the ST Microelectronics Accelerometer Driver Issue

Had this rather annoying issue with a Dell Latitude E5420 and trying to image it with Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Professional using Microsoft WDS and MDT 2010 Update 1. Basically using the Dell driver pack the machine would image okay, but then on the mini-setup the computer would freeze saying “please wait…”, even leaving it […]

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Copying from PST into Outlook 2010 creates items with “Copy:” prefixed on them

What a pain to have this happen, however once you’ve imported from PST you can run the following script from within Outlook 2010. In this example it changes the items in the “Calendar” folder under Outlook. From the Outlook 2010 client do this: Press Alt+F11 which will open the VBA window.  In the left pane, […]

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