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SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Office Web Applications
Several posts ago, I promised to provide some insight on the new development capabilities for SharePoint 2010 within Visual Studio 2010. Yeah, I’m still working on that. However, I did get around to...
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Windows 7 Power Management: Applying Power Settings with POWERCFG
Between Windows XP and Windows 7, Microsoft made significant changes under the hood to power management in order to make Windows a more energy efficient OS. While Windows Vista included a significant...
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Windows 7 Power Management: Fixing PC Insomnia
As I’ve mentioned before, putting workstations into a low power standby mode when not in use is a great way to save money. Unfortunately, standby doesn’t always work like it should. Many sysadmins have...
View ArticleDell Warranty Information Script
Important: Due to changes to Dell’s website, the script below no longer works. An updated script is available on this page. Updated: 2/14/2012 This is a VBScript that I wrote a few months ago as an...
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ATI Radeon Causes a UAC Prompt at User Logon
Recently, I encountered a strange issue after adding ATI Catalyst 10.4 Display Drivers to an offline Windows 7 image using the DISM.EXE /Add-Driver command. On systems that had an ATI Radeon video...
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Scripting a Scheduled Wakeup in Windows 7 (and Vista too!)
When it comes to implementing power saving settings on managed workstations, the easy part is configuring the power management settings themselves. The hard part is ensuring that the systems remain...
View ArticleUpdated Dell Warranty Information Script
Recently, Dell made some changes to their support website that broke the Dell Warranty Information Script. After investigating the changes, I determined that the new warranty information URL does not...
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Recovering Data from a Failing Bitlocker Hard Drive
Note: It turns out that lot of people are coming across this site while researching methods to recover data. While I wrote this to help others, I cannot offer advice, support, or service beyond what is...
View ArticleApplying KB2506143 to an offline Windows 7 SP1 WIM = Windows Setup fail
We use the offline servicing features of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) to patch our images. It’s a great feature that usually saves us time and enables us to update images without...
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Testing for Blocked UDP Ports
Firewalls: A love-hate relationship. When the firewall administrator has the appropriate exceptions in place, it’s mostly protecting the one you love most. But when they don’t, it feels like betrayal....
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