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Sysprep, Standard PC, ACPI, Ghost Images

NEVER try creating a ghost or sysprep image with your source computer’s HAL set to Standard PC! I wish I had noticed this critical point in documentation earlier: You can deploy a Sysprep image created on a computer that uses a Standard PC, Non-ACPI PIC HAL (Hal.dll) to a computer that uses the following HAL types:  • [...]

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DFS Replication Monitoring Script

I’m shortly going to start work on a tool for monitoring the status of DFS Replication. While Microsoft provides us with the Health Monitor, and you can set up a script to generate health reports every now and then, I am going to develop one that actually tests the replication, and generates some really simple [...]

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MacBook Pro Defects

On Monday, my MacBook Pro arrived. Fantastic piece of equipment, but that isn’t what this post is about. It didn’t take me long to notice some out of box issues that really made me mad. When one pays as much as they did for a laptop, they want it to be perfect, and with Apple’s [...]

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Firefox 2.0

Today I installed the shiny new Firefox 2, and it is Oh So Very Nice! Just as Internet Explorer 7 is released, and has caught up on some of the features Firefox has had for years, Mozilla Firefox remains unbeatable. Although Firefox 2.0 is not yet officially released, I am told by good sources that [...]

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