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Awesome: Huge Windows Phone NYC

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:14:52 +0000

Microsofts huge Windows Phone in New York City

Office 365 vs GMail – The Gmail Man

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:44:09 +0000

PC vs Mac ;-)

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:20:08 +0000

Awesome Windows Phone Ad: We Love WP7

Thomas Maurer — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:14:02 +0000

New Windows Phone Ad: We Love WP7 – Windows Phone 7
http://www.welovewp7.com

song: Danger – 11h30

Ad conceptualized & created by Brandon Foy, case study.
http://www.brandonfoy.tv

How to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core as Secondary Domain Controller (replica)

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:26:27 +0000

This is a small How to which shows you how you can add a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core as a Secondary Domain Controller or Replica.

First configure the Core Server, Name, Domain, IP Adresse and more. You can use the command sconfig to run the Server Configuration Utility.
Now you can go back to the Command Promt.
Now you have to possibilities to install a Domain Controller. First you run dcpromo with a unattend file you have created and copied on the server, or you run dcpromo with some parameters. I decided to run dcpromo with the necessary parameters because I just need a simple replica.
Now you can run the command on the Command Promt
Dcpromo /unattend /replicaOrnewDomain:replica /replicaDomainDNSName:corp.pepsi.local /ConfirmGC:yes /username:corp’administrator /Password:* /safeModeAdminPassword:PepsiPassword
After that the Server will run the installer and reboot.
A replication connection was created

If you need more Information about Active Directory Creation on a Windows Server 2008 Core Server you can checkout the Microsoft KB947034.

We want to be Palm’s and HP’s New Spokesperson

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:00:51 +0000

Funny new HP palm ad:

Durex Baby iPhone App

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:37:10 +0000

Great!

Time sync problems with Hyper-V Guests

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:07:17 +0000

If you have time sync problems with Hyper-V Guest Systems there is a simple solution for this.

Problems:

Time between Server and Active Directory Domain Controller is not correct
Can’t login because of this
Can’t add AD Users to local groups

Solution:

To solve this problem you have to disable Time Synchronization in the Hyper-V Integration Services for each guest. Then restart the Windows Time serviceon the guest. The guests will then correctly synchronize with a domain controller.

Active Directory Schema Versions

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:52:06 +0000

The list of Active Directory Schema versions:

Windows 2000 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 13
Windows Server 2003 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 30
Windows Server 2003 R2 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 31
Windows Server 2008 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 44
Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 47

Check the schema version in the Registry:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters\

Check the schema version with dsquery:

dsquery * CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=Root-Domäne -Scope Base -attr objectVersion

The Bing Bang Theory: Windows 7 is much more userfriendly than Windows Vista

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:09:33 +0000

Windows 7 is much more user-friendly than Windows Vista. I don’t like that. – The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory: Windows 7 is much more userfriendly than Windows Vista