Replacing motherboard with Intel RAID 1 (mirror)

Yesterday I needed to replace motherboard with active boot volume, that consisted of RAID 1 (mirror). There were two possibilities of where Intel RAID controller (ICH10R) keeps RAID configurations: in controller in RAID HDDs in both places How things went: Power off Replace broken motherboard with new one Power on First boot slow (perhaps installing …

Logon user into Windows Server 2008 R2 automatically

To bypass log on screen in Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, run the following .reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] “AutoAdminLogon”=”1” “DefaultUserName”=”YourUserName” “DefaultPassword”=”YourPassword” You must change YourUserName to your desired user name, and YourPassword to corresponding password. To import .reg file use: regedit.exe /s filename.reg This will import registry values without confirm dialog …

IPv6, literals and legacy software

IPv4 address exhaustion is slowly going into final phase. To use IPv6 addresses in legacy software, some mechanism must be in place to not confuse programs with colons (:) in the addresses. For Windows this is IPv6 literals. We have created IPv6 to literal online converting tool. It is a free tool to convert IPv6 …