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	<description>A member of the blogosphere since April 2008 :-)</description>
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		<title>Exporting XenServer VM&#8217;s from the Command Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exporting VM&#8217;s from the XenCentre GUI can be quite time consuming - doing it from the command line is much quicker (though a little more fiddly). Here&#8217;s how to do it&#8230;
mkdir /mnt/vm-backup
mount -t cifs &#8220;//WINDOWS_Server/VM&#8221; -o username=root,password=Password /mnt/vm-backup
xe vm-export vm=VM_NAME filename=/mnt/vm-backup/vm-backup.xva
If the VM name has spaces, you need to use escape characters - for example, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Importing an SSL certificate into a Citrix Access Gateway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Importing a new SSL certificate (or a renewal) into a CAG is a pain in the neck. Here&#8217;s how to do it:
First of all, don&#8217;t use the CAG to generate the request. Use IIS to generate a request (doesn&#8217;t matter what server, unless it has another SSL cert of course), and send the Certificate Request [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Default logon domain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently rebuilt a Terminal Server, and when users were logging on it kept setting their logon domain to the computer name, instead of the domain name. Fixing it is easy, via these registry keys&#8230;
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
&#8220;DefaultDomainName&#8221;=&#8221;MYDOMAIN&#8221;
&#8220;AltDefaultDomainName&#8221;=&#8221;MYDOMAIN
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		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>Deploying MYOB via GPO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MYOB didn&#8217;t do so well at creating their .msi files in Premier 11, and so you have to tweak them a little before you&#8217;ll be able to deploy the application via Group Policy. Here&#8217;s how to do it&#8230;

Install a copy of Orca
Open Premier&#8217;s MSI file with Orca
Modify Directory =&#62; ISYourCompanyDir to &#8220;MYOB&#124;MYOB&#8221;
Modify Directory =&#62; ISYourProductDir [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Deploying VNC via Group Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VNC isn&#8217;t packaged as an MSI, and so it&#8217;s a little tricky to deply via Group Policy - however it&#8217;s not impossible. Here&#8217;s how to do it&#8230;

Grab http://www.bozteck.com/Downloads/realsilent.zip and extract to \\servername\clientapps\RealVNC 
Ensure that Domain Computers (or a group containing all domain computers, such as Authenticated Users) has access to the share / folder 
Replace the contents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Sharing networked files with Media Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask why, but I have my music and video files stored on my Windows 2008 server at home. I had initially planned on streaming these files up to my Xbox 360 in the living room, however I subsequently learnt that Media Player 11 on Server 2008 has it&#8217;s media sharing services disabled. So instead, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=32</link>
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		<title>SSL Redirect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a client ask me today how to redirect http request to their website hosted on IIS6 to HTTPS - so staff don&#8217;t have to remember that pesky &#8220;s&#8221;. The quickest way I found was as follows:

Configure the website to &#8220;require SSL&#8221;
Create a file in the root of the website called &#8220;redirectssl.htm&#8221;, and insert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Emptying Recycle Bin at Logoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember once having a client who used their *recycle bin* as a bit of a filing system. Anything they didn&#8217;t want now, but might need later, they put in there for safe keeping. Safe keeping?!?! Well, we sure can&#8217;t let our lusers get away with that - lets teach them the error of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Symantec Mail Security on Windows 2008 / Exchange 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an issue today with Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange (phew) breaking my Windows Server 2008 / Exchange 2007 installation. It seems that Symantec inserts a registry key that Exchange doesn&#8217;t think much of&#8230; here is how to fix it.
Open the registry editor, and browse to the following key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application
And then delete the CustomSD registry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Deploying Office 2007 Compatibility Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to embrace xml-based file formats, Microsoft managed to make their new Office 2007 file formats unreadable by earlier versions of Office. Huzzah! Well, deploying the Office 2007 Compatibility pack is pretty darn easy - here is how&#8230;
Download the software from here, and then install locally. Grab the installation files from  C:\Program Files\MSECache\O2007Cnv\1033, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.birdman.cx/blog/?p=26</link>
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