A Windows Vista machine has a user called fourthcoffeejoberry logged on. Another user, fourthcoffeehenrikjensen logs on with Remote Desktop. fourthcoffeehenrikjensen receives this message, and presses Yes: The logged on user, fourthcoffeejoberry will see this popup on her desktop and press OK: While fourthcoffeehenrikjensen waits for fourthcoffeejoberry to respond, this message is displayed in his Remote …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Windows Virtual PC: Disable the Internal network DHCP server
The Internal network network in Windows Virtual PC (WVP) has a built in DHCP service that provides the clients connected to it with addresses in the 169.254.0.16 to 169.254.10.254 range. If you need to disable this DHCP service this is how you do it: Shut down or hibernate all your running virtual machines Wait for …
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Exploring Task Scheduler
Introduction The new Task Scheduler 2.0 included in Windows Vista and improved on in Windows 7 has the ability to send an email when a task is triggered. Also new is the ability to attach a task to an event from the Event system. You could for instance create a task that sent you an …
WinRM and TCP ports
WinRM, or Windows Remote Management, is an HTTP based remote management and shell protocol for Windows. The Windows Remote Management Service is responsible for this functionality. If WinRM is not configured for remote access, but the service is started, it listens for local requests on TCP port 47001. If you create listener it will still …
Upgrading to a higher edition (SKU) of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 using DISM
The Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool is a new tool included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. DISM enumerates, installs, uninstalls, configures, and updates features in Windows images, in either WIM or VHD format. DISM can also work against online (running) instances. Of special interest for this post are the editions …
Exchange 2010 not receiving mail
My Inbox had been awfully quiet for a few days. Time to investigate: Putty with manual SMTP session: 220 <servername> Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:53:01 +0100 ehlo server1.nowhere.com 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command ehlo server1.nowhere.com 250-<servername> Hello [<client IP>] 250-SIZE 250-PIPELINING 250-DSN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-STARTTLS 250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS 250-AUTH NTLM 250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM …