Fixing W32Time in a Guest OS
March 8, 2007
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VMWare & the System Clock
March 8, 2007
The system clock behaves … strangely … under VMWare in a guest OS. It tends to run slow, and the amount by which it runs slow varies wildly from day to day. Without a fixed time synchronization source, guests will quickly fall out of synchronization and time-critical mechanisms such as Kerberos will break.
NTP Time Synchronization in VI3
March 8, 2007
Time synchronization is of critical importance in a VMWare infrastructure. If it goes wrong, all hell breaks loose, especially in a Windows 200x environment using Kerberos.
Making a transform for any MSI installer
March 8, 2007
Many MSI installers will let you generate unattended installs, using command-line arguments, but they may not permit the use of a standard transforms (MST) file to make the unattended install. This is a major problem if you are attempting to deploy software via GPO, since you can’t specify a command line.
First Post!
March 8, 2007
Welcome!