I’ve tried running a Vista box on a domain this week and have been trying to run Sun VirtualBox 2.0.4 as a replacement for VMWare Workstation. I’d read promising reports of VirtualBox, but I was unable to create a new machine and boot it off the network. Why on earth would someone do that? Plenty of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vista’
VirtualBox not as good as VMWare on domains
Posted in Vista, tagged virtual, virtual pc, virtualbox, Vista, vmware on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vista backup with Robocopy – Part 2
Posted in Vista, backup, tagged backup, robocopy, Vista on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In part 1, I covered how to use robocopy, which is part of Windows Vista. Now we’ll use that knowledge to create a scheduled task and have regular backups.
Using Vista, you’ll want to run Task Scheduler (try pressing the windows key and typing this in, it should appear pretty swiftly). You’ll probably need to press [...]
Vista backup with Robocopy – Part 1
Posted in Vista, backup, tagged backup, robocopy, Vista on September 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Putting all of this together, we can now run robocopy “C:\Users\MyUser\Pictures” “G:\MyBackup\Pictures” /MIR /XJD /R:5 /W:15 and it will backup my Pictures folder.
Back to the lab again
Posted in Vista, Work, tagged BDD, deployment, Vista on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, back at work after completing Maintaining and Troubleshooting Windows Vista Computers. This course was similar to the last one (some content repeated). Some useful new info, but really a lot of the same stuff as in XP – or close enough that it doesn’t really matter. So, we’ve gone ”back to the lab again” (5 points for [...]
Slow news day
Posted in Vista, Work, tagged BDD, SMS, Vista on October 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Not much successful has happened so far today, Vista keeps blue screening, BDD builds aren’t working so I’m rebulding the server and will put BDD back up and go again.
Just for completeness, when I managed to get past the blue screen it was only to get the disk booting again which managed to tell me [...]
Vista company line
Posted in Vista, tagged upgrade, users, Vista on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking about it the other day after someone asked me “Why are you upgrading to Vista?” I babbled something about security, but I decided I couldn’t really sell ease of use, superior interface, Office 2007. Having thought about it, I can’t give a single great reason, but maybe a combination of little reasons.
But, [...]
Vista in the lab
Posted in Vista, tagged BDD, Vista on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, since yesterday I’ve largely been trying things in BDD and seeing how it goes in Vista. So, make a couple of changes to a lab build in BDD, recreate the deployment point, put it into Deployment Services, then go to the PC and boot from network. All goes well.
Then things start rolling downhill. BDD [...]
