From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Enable Remote Administration in Windows 2008 Core Server

May 27, 2010
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When I first came across Windows 2008 Core, I was happy. Finally, a version of windows you could chisel down to just the base components that you needed. Microsoft did such a good job – that it is hard to configure it with the default settings No graphical tools are provided (Well there are a [...]

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Getting around the “Reboot Required” message

May 14, 2010
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I had a test machine I was setting up this week. SQL Server 2008 was one of the applications I needed to install. The only problem, is that I could never get past the pre-requisites: Digging deeper, the true cause of the message was “There are pending file changes. Please reboot”. After 3 reboots and [...]

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Email Notifications for your FTP Script

May 7, 2010
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Last week I wrote how to FTP the contents of a folder by just using a batch file. We had a few good suggestions on how to improve that script. Listening to those suggestions, I have come up with this updated version: @echo off rem =============================== rem = FTP Script Made by = rem = [...]

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