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Creating a Windows 7 image with a local account

I have installed Windows 7 and prepared to OS by configuring it and installing the necessary applications. I want to keep a local administrator user account I created, "johndoe", so that I may login as "johndoe" on the clones I create from the image…
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Most prudent method of creating a QA CentOS server?

I'm trying to create a physically separate QA server of an existing install of CentOS, which has various software installed. It also has several files and configurations that I need to preserve. Assuming I have another server identical in specs,…
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Cost efficient e3fs snapshot

I have a small interesting problem to resolve. I have a dedicated linux box at SoftLayer with 240GB HDD (about 4GB used :), and I need to get its disk image locally at home in order to convert it to VirtualBox format. In order to avoid hitting the…
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Problem restoring Image of a Windows 7 Machine using Ghost 15

We have a few new Windows 7 PCs for development - they need development software, all the .NET frameworks from 1.1 upwards and such like - all of which always install components to the primary drive regardless of the main application location - plus…
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VirtualBox PXE with Windows Deployment Services not working

I have a test environment with a VM Windows 2008 with WDS, DHCP, AD installed on it. I have a client (Acer Veriton N260G) that I want to install through PXE. The LAN connection works fine because I tested the connection with a laptop (ping, dhcp…
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How does KMS (Windows Server 2008 R2) differentiate clients?

I have recently installed a KMS Server in our domain and deployed 75 new Windows 7 machines using an image I made using Acronis True Image. There are 2 variations of this image rolled out currently. When I go to activate the machines it returns that…
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Image archiving on network folders

Our company uses Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive network folders and files, presumably to save on disk space. I can't see any other benefits. Our company is an architectural firm, and the problem our users face is locating particular images in…
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What are the implications of GPT when attempting image-based deployment for workstations?

I've got 13 machines with identical hardware that I need to deploy. The machines all have the new UEFI standard, which apparently forces GPT regardless of disk size. I've thus far been unsuccessful in attempting to restore a Windows 7 image using…
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map server recommendation

I am looking for a server to host World Wind for private use, the World Wind Project is using two Sun SunFire 4500 and two Sun Blade X8420 servers (see here) for their hosting needs, but this is way beyond what I have in mind. What would you…
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Apache Solr: What is a good strategy for creating a tag/attribute based search for an image

I recently read an article about YayMicro that descries how they used solr to search their photos. I would like doing something similar (but on a smaller scale). I have figured out how to have solr to search text files, but I would like to learn…
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Mac OS X Leopard Segmented Backup

I am trying to do a full backup of a drive on a Mac I have. The drive has 96GB of 100GB filled up. I have an external USB drive I want to backup to. On the external drive, no one file can be any larger than ~4GB. How do I create or find an already…
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mirroring linux server to external usb harddrive

My google-fu must be sucking. i havent been able to find a good solution for the following: numerous Linux server on commodity hardware Trying to do a recovery mirror copy to external harddrives External harddrives are smaller than source…
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Novell Identity Manager (NIM) 3.6: How to make an image part of the resources for HTML reports?

This question might not belong here, and since this is related to an identity management product, I thought I could ask nonetheless. I'm currently working to list all of the user identities in Designer for Identity Manager, by Novell. I used the…
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How to scale out image hosting/serving?

I asked this question on stackoverflow and it was suggested that I try it here: I'm building a website where users can upload photos and I'd also convert uploaded photos into thumbnails. Planning ahead, if the website gets popular, how do I scale it…
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Checkout Laptops Imaging and Encryption

We have about 20 laptops (windows xp or 7) that we're getting ready for checkout at a library. People will be using these laptops anywhere from 1 day to 3 months. We have a few issues because of new policies enacted at our institution. First of…
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