Adding a Domain Group to the Local Administrators Group
Nov17

Adding a Domain Group to the Local Administrators Group

KB ID 0000589  Problem This weekend I’ve been doing a school migration, (go live is tomorrow). Just as we were finishing up today, we found out a client application needed a certain user group to have LOCAL administrator rights on the client machines. I remembered that it could be done and it had something to do with “Restricted Groups”. So when I got home I fired up the test network and ran though it for tomorrow....

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Running Windows Server 8 in VMware ESXi
Nov17

Running Windows Server 8 in VMware ESXi

KB ID 0000590  Problem The very fist time I tried this was on ESXi 4.1, if you try and install Windows 8 Server on that platform, you will see the following. Your computer ran into a problem and needs to restart. If you’d like to know more, you can search online later for this code: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED It’s collecting error info and will restart in: x seconds Note: You will also see this in VMware player, and VMware...

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