From the monthly archives: August 2009

Windows Deployment Services trumps Internet Connection Sharing

By On August 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

I imagine the responses to this post’s title will fall in to one of three categories:

What’s Windows Deployment Services? What’s Internet Connection Sharing? Why on earth would you use both in one machine?

To answer the last question I need to unveil a bit about the network approach that we’ve adopted for the Hyper-V on Windows [...]

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Routine loss of connectivity on a Hyper-V host’s external connection

By On August 25, 2009 · 2 Comments

We’ve recently been piloting a laptop developer build on Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (Build 7100) with the Hyper-V role. One of the first receipients of this build complained of connectivity problems in Office Communicator once every minute or two. For as-yet undiagnosed reasons we have lengthy sign-in times for Communicator, so this loss of connectivity rendered it completely unusable. This same [...]

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Hyper-V Manager over VPN may fail if the server is VMM-managed

By On August 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

About a year ago John Howard published guidance on how to get Hyper-V Manager to connect to Hyper-V servers over VPN. His network monitoring and suggestion to change the VPN connection IP settings so that the VPN adapter registers the machine’s new address in DHCP/DNS went a long way towards fixing the [...]

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K2, Thematic and a hex colour picking tool

By On August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I generally don’t do anything front-end if I can help it, but I’ll get my hands dirty when I need to. I recently played with a number of different K2 stylesheets and the newer Thematic framework while redesigning this site. I could only find one child theme that I [...]

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