NZ Tekonverse

Having discussed this lengthily in a previous series of posts it’s time to start working on a real world implementation – and by the way, happy new year! The following steps should be those needed to set up a Native Boot VHD from scratch: Develop the image Create a new VHD and attach it to…

It is almost a month since I wrote about this topic. I was able to defer the setup of the RD Gateway that I was previously doing until today when I had to finish it without completing the NAP client setup. This means that for the moment all clients connecting to our server will be…

By now it will be apparent I have not posted any work related content here for a good while. The reason is mostly that we are hideously busy with end of year stuff. Here is a useful code snippet. How to get a ping log with nice neat output, with the time and date displayed.…

Around two years ago I wrote about my trials in changing ISP from Telecom to Slingshot. The experience was bad enough that I ditched Slingshot and changed to TelstraClear and haven’t looked back. In fact I wondered why I hadn’t gone to Telstra in the first place. Today there’s an article in the Herald on…

In amongst the new functionality for Windows Server 2008 is the Remote Access Gateway (it acquired this name in Server 2008 R2 but was introduced as Terminal Server Gateway in 2008 R1) and Network Access Protection enhancements. The latter technology existed in previous editions of Server but was mainly concerned with enforcing protection against remotely…

Earlier this week I wrote about the frustration of transferring Excel data to Access with flaky OBDC connections or drivers. I’m not sure that was exactly the cause but a lot of error conditions were experienced trying to manipulate data with the linked tables which were Excel spreadsheets. Eventually I got the data to be…

This has taken a break because I have been very busy with other things. However I had a look at it at home last night and used Wim2VHD to make a VHD containing Windows 7 Enterprise x86. I then copied it to a portable HDD and took it to work this morning. I think the…

Remember… you heard it here first… http://www.interfacemagazine.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=&id=791 http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki Peter Harrison, Vice President of the New Zealand Open Source Society commends the release. “ The Internet provides humanity with a unequalled opportunity to leverage our communication technology to educate people across the globe. Through collaborative technologies such as Wiki people can work together to create rich…

I have used MS Access for 15 years to do various types of reporting and it is my defacto tool of choice with input data that looks like some form of database and a report as output, especially when it has multiple pages, requires calculations, or data to be joined together from multiple tables. One…

At the moment I am trying out the walkthrough applying a sysprepped image directly to a VHD file that I created with Diskpart. This tool can be used with VHD files as well as ordinary hard disks and then it can mount the VHD to a drive letter. As noted in previous discussion while this…