Windows

Quick'n'Dirty "About Windows Azure"

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The Platform-As-A-Service solution from Microsoft Windows Azure is a service that allows the execution of applications and data storage in the Microsoft’s Cloud. This platform provides a runtime environment (Windows Azure) and a service pack (SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric) that can be used together or independently.

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Running Windows on Xen

       199 words, 1 minutes

The NetBSD/xen port is able to run M$ Windows domU, since you have a CPU that features the IntelĀ® VMX instruction.

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Search Active Directory from the desktop

       195 words, 1 minutes

That day, at work, I had to check if an application has been implemented as it should have been. The application was supposed to use Active Directory groups to filter users access to some data. I’m no admin on my desktop ; but I had to find a “standard” way to query the corporate Active Directory. Here’s the trick.

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Remove NIC from Windows' registry

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Here’s a support article that explains how to manually removing network adapter entries from the Windows registry.

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Force VMware (Fusion) tools installation

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Last time I P2Ved a Windows 7 machine, I ended not being able to install the VMware tools on it. The menu was just not enabled no matter what I did inside or outside the VM. The solution to have the VMware tools installed is to manually mount the Windows drivers disk image.

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