I updated the blog today to a new version.  The latest version had some features I required greatly. Thank you for your patience during the brief outage while upgrading. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Pber

  Recently I had to troubleshoot a problem with our Sysprepped Windows XP SP3 clients getting the following error:    "The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol. Please try connecting to the remote computer again or contact your server administrator. "   On all the XP SP3 images, the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing\HardwareID\ClientHWID key was identical on all machines.  The Terminal server uses this key to dis... [More]

  Recently I had to create an external trust through a firewall to a domain in a DMZ.  I found an article from Microsoft titled: "How to configure a firewall for domains and trusts”.  After looking at the insane number of ports required, I figured there must be a better way.  So here are the steps I took to create a working trust.   Requirements:  Minimum amount of ports open in firewall.  IPSEC can't be used for various reasons. Pure DNS re... [More]