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Native resolution not set after deploying via MDT 2010

Posted on 6 January, 2012 by Daniel

If your machines aren’t automatically having their display resolution set to their monitor’s native resolution after deployment via MDT, this may be the cause of the problem. Although I’d previously deployed Vista and Windows 7 using MDT 2010, I’d never … Continue reading →

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MDT/WSIM fails to catalog a captured Windows 7 image

Posted on 6 January, 2012 by Daniel

Had an issue today where I was trying to catalog a captured Windows 7 WIM image, both through MDT 2010 and through WSIM directly. Doing so comes up with an error: Performing operation “generate” on Target “Catalog”. The operation failed … Continue reading →

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PowerShell: Cancel all print jobs

Posted on 17 November, 2011 by Daniel

Here’s a quick PowerShell script I put together to delete all print jobs from our Windows Server 2008 R2 print server. It’s run overnight as a scheduled task. We do this because sometimes our print accounting software doesn’t clear out … Continue reading →

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Server 2008 R2: Online license edition upgrade

Posted on 18 October, 2011 by Daniel

I’ve had to google this a few times, so I’ll blog the results here for future reference. It’s possible to upgrade, for example, a Server 2008 R2 Standard server to Enterprise without rebuilding Windows. This is all covered in detail … Continue reading →

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2TB SATA disks in a HP MSA20

Posted on 20 September, 2011 by Daniel

We recently needed to expand the storage space we use for backups. For this, we use a HP NAS 2000S, which is just a DL380 G3 with a faceplate, and two MSA20 storage shelves with SATA disks. We had 12x … Continue reading →

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