1. So how do I know what drive letters apply to what disks in Server Core?
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... Hyper-V so Windows Vista SP1 DISKPART will have to do!). C:\Users\paulw-a\tmpdev\lang\cmd>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6001 Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation. On compu...

2. Troubleshooting Microsoft Application Virtualization/ SoftGrid error 0060922C-800736B1
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I’ve been evaluating Microsoft Application Virtualization, a.k.a. SoftGrid, which is now part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and, like all technical people, I just dived

3. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
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... the LDIFDE documentation doesn’t really go into LDIF and there’s very little information on the Microsoft web site about LDIF. In fact, almost all LDIF information out there seems to be ...

4. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
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... retrieve this information. It simply tells you it was unable to retrieve the information. This means that Microsoft has implemented this as a very specific security requirement and not as a simple ...

5. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
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...as a separate blog post to keep the entry concise and for search-engine reasons. The second error I hit was Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException. In my case the stack trace l...

6. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
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... as a separate blog post to keep the entry concise and for search-engine reasons. The first error I hit was Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException. In my case, the stack...

7. Prompting for the computer name in an unattended installation of Windows Server 2008
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...le will result in a random name, just like using the wildcard value in Vista. The official stance, from Microsoft’s documentation, is that this is by design. The idea here is that the inst...

8. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...ect cmdlet. We differentiate between mailbox-enabled users and users with the RecipientType property of the Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Management.User class. If a user is mailbox-enabled then...

9. Disabling logging in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
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... 3.0 is no longer part of Windows Server 2008 (it was during beta), but is available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. In order to install and run SharePoint services on Windows Serv...

10. Automating Windows Server 2008 installations
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I’ve been working with a couple of customers on Windows Server 2008 automation, specifically non-Microsoft deployment and non-WDS automated builds. Seeing as I had quite a bit of fun, to put it