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Low battery life in Windows 7

Submitted by Gil Freund on Fri, 2010-02-05 12:02

From a discussion in the Microsoft Technet site it appears that Windows 7 has an issue with battery management.

Backup local machines

Submitted by Gil Freund on Mon, 2009-12-14 15:41

I have Windows, Mac and Linux machines. Each uses a separate backup mechanism

Modifying the RIS server

Submitted by Benny Keshet on Thu, 2006-09-21 20:13

Create a PXES directory structure. The exact structure is not that important. The RIS Server TFTP server’s root starts at the RIS server’s root folder.
Ex. We installed our RIS to use D:\RemoteInstall as it’s root.
Folder structure is ‘D:\Remoteinstall’ → this is the TFTP root “\”

\Setup
\OSChooser
\admin

We created a folder \Setup\English\PXEBoot\PXETS – for the pxes boot images and \Setup\English\PXEBoot\BootROMs – for the EPROM boot images (see below).
Remark: The advantage to this folder structure is that it makes it easy to add the same pxe boot images to the regular RIS menu (using F12 network boot) just by adding a .sif file. IMHO it is also tidier.

Modifying the DHCP server

Submitted by Benny Keshet on Thu, 2006-09-21 20:12

One needs to define two entries to the DHCP User Classes
Open DHCP.mmc → right click relevant DHCP server → select “Set Predefined Options…”
DHCP Predefined options

In the resulting window Add:

Option 66:Boot server options
Boot server options
Class: Global
Name: Boot Server Host Name
Data: String
Code: 66
Description: TFTP boot server host name
Then click OK finish

Option 67:Boot file options
Boot file options
Class: Global
Name: Bootfile Name
Data: String
Code: 67
Description: Bootfile Name

Howto Implement a pxes thinclient deployment in a MS dominated environment.

Submitted by Benny Keshet on Thu, 2006-09-21 19:38


The faculty of health sciences at Ben Gurion University needed to deploy a set of 30 classroom computers to function as thinclients to a MS Windows 2003 Terminal Server.

We wanted to use existing classroom hardware - Pentium III, 64MB RAM computers and we needed to retain use of floppy disk, CD-Rom and disk-on-key USB devices, All network cards were Intel pro 100ve.

Our server infrastructure included MS based RIS Server, DHCP and AD servers, working over a 100MB Ethernet network.

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