MrJinje

If you are tight on greenbacks, why splurge $58 for an empty case (and pay for powersupply separately I assume) when this one comes with 500 watt power supply for $33. Normally a 500 watt will run you at least another $30-$40 by itself. That would free up about $60 extra dollars for important stuff, like a more expensive motherboard, or an extra 2GB of RAM. http://www.amazon.com/11-Bay-Window-Comput...y/dp/B002HTD8MO EDIT: Take it with a grain of salt.

After you install the WAIK, open your start menu and find the link for the "Windows System Image Manager" in the waik folder. That is the tool that can assist you in creating all the proper syntax necessary. For an IT employee, you will need to learn how to use that, it will be your best friend in creating a truly custom XML file. Most of the settings in XML you find online will be aimed home users. At least you are getting paid to do it the hard way.Here is a relatively complex XML file of mine own design. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=at...st&id=28072 (save link as) Once you have WSIM open, in the lower left corner, select your catalog file (goto DVD\Sources and select your .CLG file). Afterwards in the middle frame choose Open an answer file, and select the one you just downloaded. Then use the lower left frame to add the missing settings to the XML, and use the middle frame to adjust/tweak the settings. Unattend.chm gives you a little blurb about each setting, and which configuration pass it is valid for. Read the first section of unattned.chm like a book if you want to learn about the config passes and the other basics. Also has section detailing what changed since XP, do not skip that page.

Your best bet is to install the WAIK for Windows 7 and use the Unattend.chm. It has most of the settings documented, but as with all Microsoft releases, they probably missed plenty of things, and those will remain undocumented until someone discovers them. Here is a link to the WAIK updated documentation. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Perfect, we just need to filter for a logon of "type 10" Remote Interactive. But like I mentioned, if the user had already accessed the member server previously and it had "cached" his/her credentials, it is very likely it would not contact the DC. In those cases it would be a logon type 11, stored only in the member servers event log (if tracking was enabled - which we know it's not). If there are no type 10's on the DC, then there are none, it was only a slim chance to begin with. Logon Type - 10 - RemoteInteractive A user logged on to this computer remotely using Terminal Services or Remote Desktop. Logon Type - 11 - CachedInteractive A user logged on to this computer with network credentials that were stored locally on the computer. The domain controller was not contacted to verify the credentials.Cluberti is right about one thing, enable auditing on the member servers and you will have less problems next time around. Alternatively you could configure the security policy to never cache credentials. From secpol.msc various cache settings can be controlled from the "Security Options" page here. security settings/local policies/security options EDIT: Check this out. http://www.brianmadden.com/forums/t/21300.aspx http://www.2x.com/securerdp/

On the root of your DVD should be a file called autounattend.xml. It contains a typo in your product key, fix the typo and it should work. Otherwise, you can also just delete the entire file (autounattend.xml) and it will perform a manual installation.

There should be an option to add a folder full of drivers on that page (in nLite) , so if you don't see it, it is there.

Not sure exactly what this line is ??? Time to clean your temp directory.

I had a suspicion they might have changed that. More details. @MrJinje - You know what they say about thinking. STOP IT!

Hmm, don't server products allow 3 administrative logins even with Terminal Server disabled. One to the console (the zero session), and two additional sessions. That used to be my favorite feature of W2K3, even had termsrv.dll hack to make Vista act the same way. I think if you use the Remote Desktops.msc (not the normal Remote Desktop - big difference) it can specify which session you want to connect with. For W7/2008/R2 I think the new version is in the RSAT It's worth a shot, try logging into the zero session and report back if that resolves the issue.

I like this answer, even without an SSD. I have an old box with 4GB of DDR (not DDR-2 or DDR-3 but DDR-Original - 400mhz I think) and a 40GB IDE-HDD. Anyways, long story short, 5-6 years no pagefile and no issues. But then again I always thought it was a stupid idea for Microsoft to write data to my HDD while the machine is at it's busiest.What you could do is install your windows and start up every Microsoft Office program, open all your other programs, maybe pop in DVD, then check and see what kind of RAM usage you are getting. If you are still under 4GB at extreme usage, you can probably survive without a pagefile. For any readers who want to test this out, here is the reg setting that disables your page-file. Disable_Pagefile.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;----------------------------------- ;Disables The Paging File ;----------------------------------- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management] "PagingFiles"=hex(7):00,00,00,00

Group Policy, think it is only this one setting, but have not tested this. Since it says extreme, I think you need to use the little checkbox before it shows up in the GUI. http://www.vlite.net/changelog.html Controlling "Administrative Tools" folder in the start menu, thought that was on the Tweaks tab.

I think the OP is talking about drivers for a USB Modem/Cellular Modem. These are EV-DO or 3g devices that plug into your computer and connect just like a cell-phone would.

Cable/DSL simply does not exist everywhere. Having worked a number of years with Qwest\USWest I can safely say that DSLAM's are expensive, and they just don't install them willy-nilly. To give an idea, back in 2001 they probably only had four CO's for the entire state of Wyoming. It's very possible that satellite and cellular are his only options, If the OP says DSL is not available in his area, i am inclined to believe him. Here is some information on how to check DSL availability online and a description of some of it's limitations. Anyways, back on subject. If you cannot use a USB modem or otherwise somehow get the drivers to install. The next best thing is gonna be a router with a PCMCIA slot. You should be able to plug in with a network cable (or use wireless ???) and it will handle connecting to your Cellular/Satellite provider. They are relatively cheap, so it shouldn't cost you that much more than you were already planning to spend. http://www.google.com/products?q=router+pcmcia+slot Which ISP's are you looking at ?

Sounds like someone accessed a file share from the network. This would happen if someone were to map a network drive, or if they browsed the network neighborhood to the file share. This is normal if the employee in question is supposed to be using that network file share. Before we go any further, maybe we need to define what type of logon you are looking for. Are you looking for someone who actually logged into the machine (interactively/w desktop + start menu and all all that) and wasn't supposed too. Or are you looking for someone who accessed the machines file-shares remotely ? These two types of logins are completely different and maybe we could narrow down and get you the correct advice.

Had to be sure. You mentioned that Terminal Servers work correctly with forwarding, which is good, that clears up a lot of the lame DNS replication questions, obviously finding the office externally is non-issue.From IIS perspective, when you are on the local network, passthrough authentication is usually used. But from home you are probably considered an anonymous visitor. Can you check and see if IIS is set to receive anonymous visitors ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324274 Never used a DrayTek before, is it command line based or does it have a snazzy gui. Not sure how it maintains it's access lists but one hypothesis is that it is possible that an access list entry is set to deny port 80, and that line of code denys it before it can get to the your port forwarding entry ? Not sure if I am explaining the possible problem correctly, but coming from a Cisco/Lucent background, we always had to be careful the order in which we defined our access lists. Sometimes a DENY entry earlier in the list would drop the packet before it can ever get to the ALLOW entry. If you have other working websites and know for a fact this is a non-issue then disregard.

Easiest fix - Does your company have a VPN you can connect through. Once connected to a VPN, that you will be able to connect like you were in the office. (your internal DNS handles everything) Would that solve the problem or does this server need to be publicly accessible to employee's and non-employee's alike. When you say you are trying to connect from home, what do you mean, are you typing in it's internal IP address, the IP address of your remote router or something else ?

Yes, like I alluded too in my previous post, you need to make the change on the registry key that you are inheriting the restriction from. Look at the "Inherited From" field on the most restrictive setting in the bunch (you liekly want the one that says read-only), find it's key and fix it there. If that is too complicated, can always just snap me this screenie from the key you want to delete, and I will tell you exactly where you need to go. This is the page I need to see to be able to answer your question. Or just find the most restrictive setting and go to the source key and make the changes there. If the "Inherited From" field says it was inherited from CURRENT_USER, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, right click and make the change at the source.

Can you map directly to the share ? net use Z: \\server\share /user:domain\username password Or is File Sharing disabled ? Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings ------------------- Is the computer a member of the domain and/or are you logging into with domain user account. Or are you just using your local account created during installation ?

Right click the registry key > Select Permissions > Advanced Some permissions will say <notinherited> and we will get to them later. First, tell me how many permissions are "Inherited From" and from where. Then we need to find that key and change the settings at that location. In this case a picture does say a thousand words, snap a jpeg of the advanced tab would be the most painless way, otherwise, if have to guess, look for an inherited read-only permission for "RESTRICTED" and go to its source and make it full control. And once you have full control you should be able to delete them. Side Note, some stuff is "Owned" by TrustedInstaller, if that is the case, might need add a second step, to "Take Ownership". Use the Owner tab to do this.

Boot critical drivers also need to be added to Boot.wim Image #2

That is some outdated Vista stuff, nowadays is very easy to integrate most drivers, and only slightly harder to remove them. Can do it from the command line or just use DISM Tool™. They need to be extracted to .INF, .SYS and not .EXE or .ZIP. Find DISM Tool™ here If they are CAB or MSU files, instead use the add-package button and integrate them with any Windows Updates you want to add. To download the current windows updates, check here, new list coming tomorrow or the next day. Updates List

EDIT button on the bottom right. Good stuff, have to check it out later.

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The key on the COA sticker is your Retail key. It includes a limited number of online activations, after which, you will be forced to make a phone call each re-activation. The key you found with your product key checker is likely the OEM:SLP key. It probably begins with "H4***", and each Sony Home Premium machine is activated with that OEM key in the factory. (and when restoring from the recovery partition). Sony uses the OEM:SLP method to prevent your Retail key from getting used up too quick.

Can also do the trick with desktop.ini. For this to work you need to mark the folder/junction point you want to use as a system folder, if it is not marked as a system folder, it does not use the desktop.ini, and the folder reverts to normal behavior. attrib +s C:\Users\MrJinje\Desktop\AdminMode desktop.ini [.ShellClassInfo] CLSID={ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} It is also cleaner this way, no more long GUID folder names. I just hate when it re-sizes my columns because of a single long file name.