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VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 Beta

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I’m still in the process of getting sorted now that I’m back home in Western Australia, so you have probably seen this one already. Just in case though ;) VMware have their VI toolkit in beta, and I’ve been lead to believe that it has lots of PowerShell goodness. There are apparently 102 cmdlets included [...]

Debugging an MDT build that fails to start

Monday, March 10th, 2008

If you’ve been using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), aka Deployment4, then you will have probably had the scenario at some point where you PXE boot your client into PE and then the whole process just stops. The giveaway sign here is that you have the command prompt returned to you. This can be a [...]

Vista OEM offline activation

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

So there’s been a lot of talk about OEM BIOS hacks to get around Vista activation. Microsoft responded to this on the Windows Genuine Advantage Blog back in April last year. Now it appears that there’s a much easier work around, leveraging what seems to be a design choice in activation for some of the [...]

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