Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker

To disable the teasing Shutdown Event Tracker, choose start > Run... > and type GPedit.msc

Then go to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Dbl-Click "Display Shutdown Event Tracker" and select Disabled.

Setting up a Virtual Domain

Getting Multiple Virtual PCs to Work Together

extending a virtual hard drive vhd for Virtual PC / Virtual Server

I saw this good link http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/Resizing-a-VHD-and-a-Volume.aspx to extend virtual hard disks. I change it a bit and here is what I did:

(please check as well the good post http://kb.dutchalps.com/microsoftvirtualpc.htm)

To extend the VHD you need to use a tool called VHResizer from the host. It is really good. Then add the new drive as a secundary HD of some virtual machine (does not need to be the one you are going to use that VHD - I used a Windows XP VM. In Disk management from windows, right click the just extended space and create a volume.

Then use the diskpart.exe command line tool from microsoft to extend the volume.

VMWare ESX has a tool for that included on the product called vmkfstools.

Network adapter problems

When moving VM HD and VM machines from machine to machine, sometimes we get problems with the Network adapters. VM creates new ones and it can be that you have some hidden ones still running.

To check the non visible ones, please do the following:

from a command prompt type: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Then type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER from the command prompt

go to the device manager and choose show hidden devices under the view menu.

That's it, you shoul be able to see and delete if you want the not necessarely adapters.

Windows prompting you again and again: Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?

Solution is to enable:

tools>internet options>security>custom level>display mixed content: enable!


Credits go to an anonymous comment in http://ebersys.blogspot.com/2009/03/do-you-want-to-view-only-webpage.html

IE explorer settings (export)

I was trying to have some IE from one PC to the other after some GP were applied.

Clcik Run... and type gpedit.msc. Then here is the path:

Right click on Internet explorer Maintenence and click export. Then on the other machine just double click it.

Accessing the site from inside the Front End server

I was accessing a site from a client without a problem. Even the authentication whould have pick up the windows credentials and so it would be an automatic login without having to specifically type the credentials. As it should be!

Now, the same site in the server that hosts it would not only asked me authentication but as well would not allow access after credentials have been given.

To solve this, I follow kb896861 from Microsoft:
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6