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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Windows 8 Server Consumer Preview installation (Running on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP2)

1. Boot from the Windows 8 ISO file, you wll see the following screen:

2. Click “Next” to start the installation.

3. Click “Install Now” for the installation. (You will see the new Windows 8 icon on this screen)

5. Select the “Windows Server with GUI” or “Server Core”.

6. Accept the agreement.

7. Select the “Custom: Install Windows only (Advanced)”

10. Setup the “Administrator” account.

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12. The new logon gina of the Windows Server 8 beta

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14. The first time login, it will take some time to create the profile.

15. When you login, the server manager will be auto start.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

How to attach a email as a attachment in Lotus Notes 8.5.3?

Step 1: Go to “File”, select “Save As….”

Step 2: Save the email as *.eml

Step 3: Attach the .eml file to the new email.

Skype 5.6 offline installer (.MSI) - business edition

Please go to the following link to download:

http://download.skype.com/msi/SkypeSetup_5.6.0.110.msi

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Windows 7 sysprep (Solve the driver issue)

Running the following unattended file for the sysprep:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">

- <settings pass="oobeSystem">

- <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

</component>

- <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

- <OOBE>

</OOBE>

- <UserAccounts>

- <LocalAccounts>

- <LocalAccount wcm:action="add">

- <Password>

<Value>cABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA=</Value>

<PlainText>false</PlainText>

</Password>

<Description>First Admin User</Description>

<Group>administrators</Group>

</LocalAccount>

</LocalAccounts>

</UserAccounts>

<TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>

</component>

</settings>

- <settings pass="specialize">

</component>

</settings>

- <settings pass="generalize">

- <component language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="amd64" name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">

</component>

- <component language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="amd64" name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">

</component>

</settings>

<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:h:/sources/install.wim#Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />

</unattend>

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Please copy the above content and save it as unattend.xml, then copy this unattend.xml to C:\answerfile and run the following command for sysprep:
%systemroot%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /oobe /shutdown /generalize /unattend:c:\answerfile\unattend.xml

Please full backup the Windows (Windows backup or DELL backup and recovery) before running the sysprep.

(If the sysprep is running failure, you will not able to login the Windows again (e.g. reboot in looping))

Just a friendly reminder:
1. Full backup the machine before run sysprep
2. Do not use the default local administrator account for "profile copy"

Monday, January 30, 2012

How to reset the root password of VMware ESXi 4.1 Embedded edition

I would like to take this chance to say Thank you to Bernhard Bock (bernhard's blog - http://www.bock.nu/blog) to posting this solution to us.

I just modify little bit to fit for "VMware Embedded edition"

The tools is GRML (grml.org) - Debian-based Live CD made for system administrators and users who prefer text tools.

The following steps which is I did for reset password:

The solution at the following: (Only apply for DELL VMware Embedded edition, for the standard/Installer edition, we need to change the local.tgz which is containing by states.tgz)

First of all, we need to boot your ESXi server with a "GRML"
mount /mnt/Hypervisor1
cd /tmp
tar xzf /mnt/Hypervisor1/local.tgz
vi etc/shadow (Remove remove the hash altogether (everything between the first and the second colon))
mv /mnt/Hypervisor1/local.tgz /mnt/Hypervisor1/local.tgz.bak
tar czf local.tgz etc
mv local.tgz /mnt/Hypervisor1/

Since there are two "volume" of Hypervisor, we need to repeat those step at Hypervisor2

mount /mnt/Hypervisor2
cd /tmp
tar xzf /mnt/Hypervisor2/local.tgz
vi etc/shadow (Remove remove the hash altogether (everything between the first and the second colon))
mv /mnt/Hypervisor2/local.tgz /mnt/Hypervisor2/local.tgz.bak
tar czf local.tgz etc
mv local.tgz /mnt/Hypervisor2/

Reference:
How to reset the root password of VMware ESXi 4.1 and 5.0
http://www.bock.nu/blog/reset-root-password-vmware-esxi-4.1

Got a error Hyper-v rpc server unavailable suddenly when configuring Remote Management of Hyper-V Server - in a workgroup

If your Hyper-V remote management is in a workgroup environment and it work well. But one day, you receive a error message “Hyper-v rpc server unavailable” when you try to use a Server Manager to remote access it.

It maybe your user account password is expired.

Solution:

Use the remote desktop (by using the local administrator account) to remote the hyper-v server and check the user account password is it expired.

If the user password is expired, run the following command to change it.

net user <user_name> <new_password>

e.g. net user administrtaor password

Remark: Make sure your new password have been changed in the remote client machine too. Otherwise, the password will not match at the client side, it will not able to remote via the Server Manager.

How to upgrade you Nokia 2730c to firmware v10.47

<<Use Ovi to full backup all the data (e.g. SMS, phone, contact …..) of your phone before you upgrade your firmware, since the following method will completely erase all your phone data>>

Nemesis Service Suite Beta 1.0.38.15

http://www.b-phreaks.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page_2

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