Tag Archives: VMware

Hiding the vmware_user account in Windows 7

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Aaron Parker

Installing VMware Server or Workstation on Windows 7 will leave the __vmware_user__ account showing on the logon screen, which does not happen in earlier versions of Windows. If you want to hide this account, it’s a simple registry value addition: … Continue reading →

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VMware ESX Server and Security Update MS07-22

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Aaron Parker

We’ve had some issues with 32bit Windows on VMware ESX 3.0 which has been causing servers that have been patched with the MS07-22 security update to freeze on boot. The severity rating for this patch is Important and it fixes … Continue reading →

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Unattended VMware Tools

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Aaron Parker

Here’s how to create an unattended installation of VMware Tools which I’ve aimed specifically at Terminal Servers, however you can apply the same concepts for any Windows server installed under any of the VMware virtualisation products. Creating a Transform File … Continue reading →

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Windows PE 2.0 and VMware Workstation

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Aaron Parker

I’m working on a Presentation Server deployment project at the moment, and am deploying the servers with Windows PE 2.0 via Windows Deployment Services (WDS). I need to launch Windows Setup via WINNT32.EXE because the servers have two RAID sets … Continue reading →

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HP and VMware team to reinvent the wheel

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Aaron Parker

I’m a bit slow, it’s about a month old now, but I spotted this article in CRN Australia magazine about how HP and VMware are teaming to bring VDI to the masses. Here’s an intro from the article: Hewlett-Packard is … Continue reading →

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