Hard Reset Acer E210 Cellphone

If you have a issue with a Acer E210 smartphone - try resetting it first by - Turn off the phone - Hold down the volume down button and turn it back on

This will reset all settings back to factory default

Installing Windows 2008R2 Remote Desktop Connection Broker to balance load over two Remote Desktop Servers

We have one vm server running a Remote Desktop server and because of the amount of memory the vm is now using we need to divide up the load so we can balance over two vms and place them on two different esx hosts

Now we only wanted to use Remote Desktop connections, and we are not using RemoteApp or RemoteWeb (alot of instructions on the web have these steps as well)

1) First install the Remote Desktop Connection Broker
The Remote Desktop Connection Broker tells each incoming request to go to the server with the less load or to only the on line RD servers - if this service goes down then all requests will go onto one server and wont balance.  It would pay to have the broker on a separate server and not on the RD servers so you can restart the RD servers without interrupting the incoming requests.

• Go to Roles and and install Remote Desktop Services Role
• Then you need to install the Remote Desktop Connection Broker

2) Add the remote desktop servers into new local group
A new local group gets created called "Session Broker Computers"
Simply select type of computers and add the remote desktop server names

 

3) Set up DNS
You need to setup new A host records in your DNS for your new "farm" name
Farm1      192.168.0.1
Farm1      192.168.0.2

4) Set the remote desktop server to use the new remote desktop connection broker
Under the Remote Desktop Host Session configuration screen - right click the "Member of farm in RD connection Broker" and go proprieties

5) Click the button "Change Settings"

6) Click on Farm member, Click the RD Connection Broker server name, type the farm name used when setting up the DNS

7) Click "Partcipate in Connection broker load-balancing", Click the Ip address of your LAN

 

The next time someone logs in - it will go to the server with the lowest logins (it doesnt balance cpu or memory used)

 

 

Hard Reset a Nokia e71

Two types of reset

1)  *#7370# will delete everything on your phonememory (contacts, sms, mms, mails etc)
Use PC suite to backup your contacts and messages etc first if you would like to keep them...


2) The *#7780# will only reset your settings. Contacts, wallpaper, texts, calendar etc will still remain.

Installing Windows 7 - Remove 100MB system partition which is created by default

To remove this pain partition do these steps:

1. Run the windows 7 cd and at the first setup screen press Shift +F10
2. Run Diskpart
3. Type the follow commands in:
   List disk (normally disk is 0)
   select disk 0 (change 0 to another number if applicable)
   clean (deletes all partitions on disk)
   create partition primary
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=ntfs quick
   exit
4. Now you can continue with the setup it will use the partition we just created and wont create a system partition

These steps are useful when you need to clone machines and you want only one disk

Windows 7 to VMware converter Error

Getting this stop 0x0000007B error in Windows 7 after a convertion from a physical machine???
It means the Vmware disk controller drivers are not enabled on Windows 7 clone, so this registry hack will enable them

1.Mount the Win7 DVD and boot to it.
2.At the first screen (Language Selection), hit Shift-F10 for a command prompt.
3.Run Regedit.
4.Load the system hive from the VM's disk:

1.Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
2.File > Load Hive
3.Select < c: > \Windows\System32\config\system
4.Regedit will ask for a Key name: Name it something like "asdf"
5.Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\asdf\ControlSet001\Services\intelide
6.Change the data for value "Start" from "3" to "0".
6a.Also repeat for: HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet001/Services/ and edit the "Start" parameter to the corresponding value from the list:

Aliide = 3
Amdide =3
Atapi = 0
Cmdide = 3
iaStorV = 3
intelide = 0
msahci = 3
pciide = 3
viaide = 3
7.Click on asdf and go File > Unload Hive.
8.Exit regedit.
9.Reboot the VM.

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I cloned a windows 7 machine to another computer and had the same blue screen stop error.  I did this and it fixed it

Following the same instructions above but only changing these

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

 to 0

Hope these help someone

Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Update not working

Getting the following error? "Windows Update cannot current check for updates, because the service is not running."


First check if the windows update service is running (if it is then stop it)

Go to c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution and rename it to ...OLD

Start the service again and it will work

Review of DishTV satBox S7070r

Brought this the other day and just sharing some thoughts:

Pros

• It uses Freeviews Mheg-5 EPG (and adds new Freeview channels automatically)
• I love the recording - it can record a channel then you can watch another channel on the same mux (so record a TVNZ channel and watch the others), also you can start recording then start "chasing" the recording.
• You select programs to record from the EPG
• HDMI (only 576i output tho, but hey its only SD anyway)

Cons

• You must get the lastest firmware to get rid of some bugs (you must get v1.20 from the suppliers website below)
• USB is on the back ( a pain to plug/unplug device) but handy to keep it away from kids

Rating FIVE out of FIVE (with the current firmware) - its a great DVB-S device, nice and simple and the recording features are awesome as it should be!
Check out the suppliers website

Deploy a install file over network

Here is a cool batch script to install a exe over the network

setlocal

REM *********************************************************************
REM Environment customization begins here. Modify variables below.
REM *********************************************************************

REM Enter the Product Name.
set ProductName=Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile

REM Set DeployServer to a network-accessible location containing the Office source files.
set DeployServer=\\kbomb.local\netlogon\software

REM Set LogLocation to a central directory to collect log files.
set LogLocation=C:\Windows\Logs

REM *********************************************************************
REM Deployment code begins here. Do not modify anything below this line.
REM *********************************************************************

IF NOT "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"=="" (goto ARP64) else (goto ARP86)

REM Operating system is X64. Check for 32 bit Office in emulated Wow6432 uninstall key
:ARP64
reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%"
if NOT %errorlevel%==1 (goto End)

REM Check for 32 and 64 bit versions of Office 2010 in regular uninstall key.(Office 64bit would also appear here on a 64bit OS)
:ARP86
reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%"
if %errorlevel%==1 (goto DeployOffice) else (goto End)

REM If 1 returned, the product was not found. Run setup here.
:DeployOffice
start /wait %DeployServer%\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe /passive
echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> %LogLocation%\%computername%.txt

REM If 0 or other was returned, the product was found or another error occurred. Do nothing.
:End

Endlocal

Thanks to http://clintboessen.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/how-to-deploy-microsoft-net-framework-4.html