Jul
28
2006

Resetting corrupted performance counters

Performance counters on SYSIMG1 became corrupted recently. The MS KB is full of strange and dated advice on the subject. Here is the most recent article I could find:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956/en-us
It is full of tedious and laborious steps to manually repair the performance counter object mappings. Towards the bottom of the article, we learn [...]

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Jul
25
2006

RIS – adding “text mode” storage drivers

We had some fun adding Intel SATA drivers for the new Intel chipsets onto our RIS server. These drivers are required in order to deploy RIPrep-generated images onto the new Gateway M285 Tablet PCs.
Here were the key steps, as outlined in this TechNet Article:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/96969653-bd0f-44d7-af4f-f95c3016d2be1033.mspx?mfr=true”

In the “flat” image for the platform to be imaged (in [...]

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Jul
24
2006

WDS testing – firewall requirements

I have installed an instance of WDS on our current production RIS server. No worries, RIS functionality is still present, fully unadulterated.
However, I seem to be having problems getting a PXE boot client in my office to load. PXE boot works, and the WIM image gets loaded onto the workstation. However, I [...]

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Jul
18
2006

Deep Thought of the Day

“How long do we need to wait to be confident that software that isn’t
installed won’t crash?”
-Geoff Duke,
in written communication to a Dell support “engineer”

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Jul
07
2006

WSS v3 upgrade testing

I am attempting to model the upgrade of our existing WSS 2.0 site to 3.0 using the current “beta 2″ release. Fun so far:

The installer for WSS 3 refuses to run claiming that I need Workflow Foundation v2.2 installed and ASP.NET 2.0 enabled on my site. Workflow foundation can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/downloads. [...]

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