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Comment on Network problems on a Hyper-V guest by James Bannan

James Bannan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:03:11 +0000

Hmm – it was a while ago, but I believe it was an Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop card. And no, I didn’t need the registry change once I replaced the card.

Comment on Network problems on a Hyper-V guest by KMan

KMan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:10:44 +0000

I’ve recently run into this issue myself, and I’m wondering out of interest which exact Intel NIC you used.
I have been looking around, and it appears that maybe the Intel cards are better supported in Hyper-V, or just plain better than their Realtek counterparts.

Also, after you installed the Intel Card, and rebuilt the Domain Controller, did you need to make the registry change again?
Thanks.

Comment on Empty users’ Recycle Bin with PowerShell and GPO by adamgovuk

adamgovuk — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:24:17 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this very useful code. Implemented this into an Windows XP script I am currently writing…thanks again!

Comment on Calculate folder sizes with PowerShell by K Lause

K Lause — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:57:44 +0000

Try this:

#Query Folders
$dirpath = Read-Host “Enter path”
$subfolders = Get-ChildItem $dirpath | Where-Object {$_.PsIsContainer}

foreach ($subfolder in $subfolders)
{
$folder = $dirpath + “\” + $subfolder.Name
$colItems = (Get-ChildItem $folder -Recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum)
$colItemsSum = (“{0:N2}” -f ($colItems.sum / 1MB) + ” MB”)
$niceformat = $folder + ” ” + $colItemsSum
Write-Output $niceformat | Out-File export.txt -Append
}

It create a new variable and put the two together first then output that to the file. Gets you a nice format you can open in excel.

Comment on Provision user home directories with PowerShell by Josh

Josh — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:34:48 +0000

Thank you very much for this post, I am also in the transition to AD from NDS and this will help quite a bit.

Comment on Network problems on a Hyper-V guest by MaCuban

MaCuban — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:30:43 +0000

This is interesting… I built a powerhouse PC to be used for a development virtual environment. I had two private networks configured in Hyper-v; communication between the machines attached worked flawlessly (no physical NICs involved). When i attached a 2008r2 VM to the office network through one of the Physical NICs, connectivity was terribly buggy. While the machine was idle it was ping-able from other machines on the network, as soon as i tried attaching it to the domain, opening a browser, or use any other service requiring network resources it would drop pings till the process timed out. I have four NICs, two integrated Marvel Yukon Gig NICs and two Realtek PCI NICs. I am willing to guess my problems are related to this. Thanks for pointing this out!

Comment on Empty users’ Recycle Bin with PowerShell and GPO by gandalf

gandalf — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:35:28 +0000

Hi,
can you give me a powershell script for empty recycle bin for all users, please ?
I think that the windows 2008 $recycle.bin doesn’t work correct.
Thanks.
Gandalf

Comment on Philosophy Friday #8 – Thinking by Wilson da Silva

Wilson da Silva — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:02:50 +0000

The editorial has now been published – you can find it here;

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/3792/why-politics-sucks

Cheers

- Wilson

Comment on Philosophy Friday #8 – Thinking by Mark Davids

Mark Davids — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:59:01 +0000

All of us are hounded by the thought of limits. What we can and cannot do unconsciously makes us stay on the “safe way.” But adding spontaneity a strong sense of curiosity, we can be out of our comfort zones and try new stuff. By doing this, we can discover that life may have other things to offer other than what we are accustomed to.

Mark Davids
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literature, science & philosophy

Comment on Philosophy Friday #8 – Thinking by Wilson da Silva

Wilson da Silva — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:12:01 +0000

James:

Thanks for the comment – and glad to hear my editorial had an impact; it at least got you to reactivate the philosophy blog! We all need a bit more thinking time, I think (if you pardon the intended pun).

- Wilson