Treats damaging your servers

Don’t you just hate it when treats damage your corporate servers :(

;)

Spotted on the DrayTek website

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Windows 7 – Cannot remove from network bridge

Just had a very weird issue on Windows 7, where I was unable to remove a network connection from a network bridge I’d setup.

The normal way of doing it is described on the Microsoft website. However, right clicking on the network connection had the “Remove from bridge” option greyed out, meaning I couldn’t remove it. I was also unable to delete the Bridge miniport itself from within Manage network connections.

To fix this, we can brute force the removal:

  1. Open up Device Manager
  2. Expand “Network Connections”
  3. Right click on the MAC bridge miniport
  4. Uninstall it

As your bridge has been uninstalled, your connections should now be removed from the network bridge :)

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Sample Rules for an MDT Deployment Share

Here’s a sample of the UK rules we use at DisplayLink for our MDT 2010 Deployment Shares:


[Settings]
Priority=Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]
OSInstall=Y
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
SkipCapture=YES
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipProductKey=YES

;Skips Welcome Screen
SkipBDDWelcome=YES

; VISTA LOCALE SETTINGS
KeyboardLocale=0809:00000809
UserLocale=en-GB
InputLocale=0809:00000809
SystemLocale=en-GB
UILanguage=en-US

;BitLocker
OSDBitLockerWaitForEncryption = "FALSE"
BdeRecoveryKey=AD
BDEInstall=TPMPin
BdeInstallSupress=NO
OSDBitLockerMode=TPMKey
OSDBitLockerCreateRecoveryPassword=AD

;SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZone=85
TimeZoneName=GMT Standard Time

UserDataLocation=AUTO

SkipComputerBackup=YES

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Sample BOOTSTRAP.INI for UK deployments

Here’s a sample BOOTSTRAP.INI that we use at DisplayLink for MDT deployments.

This will pre-fill a number of options throughout the MDT WinPE Deployment Wizard.

Share and enjoy ;)


[Settings]
Priority=Default

[Default]
DeployRoot=\\MDTSERVER\Distribution$

SkipBDDWelcome=YES



KeyboardLocale=0809:00000809
UserLocale=en-GB
InputLocale=0809:00000809
SystemLocale=en-GB
UILanguage=en-US
UserDomain=YOURDOMAIN

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How to Hot-Add RAM to a Linux Guest OS in VMware ESX 4.0

Need to hot-add RAM to a Linux Guest OS in VMware vShpere 4? Some good instructions are provided here :)

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