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Over the last few years, I've been a consultant for a major IT Services company; worked for a UK-based support services company; contracted for Australia’s largest independent magazine distributor; worked in-house designing and project managing a Europe-wide infrastructure refresh for a major fashion design, marketing and retail organisation; and ...

I just discovered this and think it's really useful... I'm in the process of documenting a client's server configuration, using a virtual machine with a VPN connection to the client's network and then a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to their servers.  Because the VPN is within a virtual machine, I'm constrained by the limitations ...

A couple of weeks back, I was testing a DHCP configuration scenario using a number of virtual machines and needed them to obtain their IP addresses from a Windows 2000 DHCP server within my virtual network.  That should work, but for some reason, my virtual clients were picking up strange private IP addresses in the range ...

Last year, I blogged about building a Windows cluster using VMware.  Since then, new versions of VMware have made this more difficult/expensive (as it no longer works with VMware Workstation) and Rob Bastiaansen has removed the virtual SCSI disks from his website.  I haven't tried building a cluster on Microsoft Virtual Server, but ...

After a few weeks developing my unattended PC build using physical PCs, today I needed to deploy a virtual PC (VPC).  It should be simple to boot a VPC to a Remote Installation Services (RIS) server and apply an image as normal, but in case anyone else out there is googling to find out why they can't get it working, here's some of the stuff I've ...