I’ve deicided that it is time for me to build my own testing environment at home. I’ve been playing around with Vmware server and MS Virtual server for a while and they work OK to some extent. With Vmware I had 2 VM running with server os, but the speed of the whole system was quite slow as the hard drive LED was constantly on. To make thing better I’ve bought external USB drive and was creating VMs on it and that improved performance a lot, but then if I tried to create a VM with DB on it then things were getting slow again.
So after VMware made ESXi free I was thinking of getting my own server that I could use as a virtual testing lab 🙂 (more…)
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Building Cheap Virtual Test Environment PART1: Choosing hardware
17
Nov
Hyper-V: System Center Virtual Machine Manager is RTM
22
Oct
Download your System Center Virtual Machine Manager evaluation copy from here.
SCCM: How to enable Command console in WinPE
21
Oct
To troubleshoot SCCM OSD problems it is very handy to have Command console enabled. Basically what it does, it gives you a command prompt in WinPE. This allows you to do basic troubleshooting but the main thing for me is that it allows me to copy Task Sequence log file to USB drive, so I can check it for errors.
To enable this feature open Configuration Manager Console (more…)
SCCM: An error occured while starting the task sequence (0x80070032)
21
Oct
When deploying image to the machine you receive the following error:
An error occurred while starting the task sequence (0x80070032).
The task sequence start running fine. It creates the partition, formats it and fails straight away when it starts applying the image.
Looking at the smsts.log file you can see the following: (more…)
SCCM: WinPE NIC drivers for Dell E6400
29
Sep
The new Dell E6400 gives some troubles while trying to OSD it. The drivers provided by Dell does not work. You can import XP drivers but not Vista. SCCM WinPE is based on Vista so you’ll need Vista drivers. without drivers the system will boot to WinPE but then it will restart.
The correct drivers can be found on Intel website.
Download both 32 and 64 bit drivers.
Once downloaded extract PRO1000 folder from both files. I used WinRar for that.
Place these to folder somewhere where your SCCM server could access them and import them to SCCM. Yuo can read on importing drivers here. You don’t have to create driver package. The only thing you need is to add the drivers to Boot images and update distribution points.
HP: Remotely change Bios password with a script
24
Sep
Many people were looking how to change the Bios password remotely. Please read my previous post about the Bios settings. To set Bios password you will need Key scan codes the information about them is also given in my previous post. (more…)
I am back
27
Aug
Hi everyone,
As you can see my last post was almost a month ago and the reason for that was holidays. I will try to answer all the questions within next week.
Windows Installer Version Matrix
28
Jul
Stefan Krueger posted nice Windows Installer Version Matrix.
