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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 [...]

Running Windows Server 2008 for 240 Days without Activation

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Following on, in my recent trend of joining other people’s conversation rather than starting my own, I thought I’d highlight this tip, which I can see will be handy for testing. Announced recently on bink.nu was Microsoft KB article 948472. Basically: Any edition of Windows Server 2008 may be installed without activation, and it may [...]

Ubuntu Feisty and a Creative Xmod sound card

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I ordered a Creative Xmod USB sound card yesterday. The ear phone jack on my laptop gave out on me a few weeks ago, and I finally let the music withdrawal symptoms get the better of me. At work today one of the guys told me that he’d had an Xmod and replaced it due [...]

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