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Enable Freebox Multicast in bridge mode

French ISP Free provides TV multicast ("multiposte") on top of its own Freeplayer box as long as you use its box in router mode. Unfortunately the Freebox router itself is rather limited; I've got a DD -WRT router behind it and the Freebox is in bridge mode. To enable multicast, Freeplayer  […]

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Run bginfo at VM logon using a GPO

Install BgInfo Download BgInfo: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx Run BgInfo.exe, prepare the fields to display and then save your template in a mysettings.bgi file Copy the exe and the bgi files on a share accessible to all VM, for example \\network\share In Group Policy  […]

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Delete ghost network adapters in Windows VM

When migrating some VM from vmware to HyperV, I noticed some strange behaviors that were confirmed by running the bginfo tool: some network adapters were hidden in the background, waiting to cause some weird errors someday (especially because of the MAC address cloning...) Therefore, I found some  […]

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Isolate an HyperV machine

In order to test some trial software under good conditions -- that is, not a race against the clock, I wanted to isolate an HyperV virtual machine. This is in no way to promote piracy or something, just peace of mind. I'll eventually buy the software. This being said, here is how I did: Forbid  […]

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Setup OpenVPN Server on Asus RT-N16 with DD-WRT

This is an update of the original article Setup OpenVPN Server on Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT. Have a look for the certificates generation (easy rsa stuff). I recently bought an Asus RT-N16 router with VPN capabilities. However it turned out that the included VPN was not as slick as I wanted to. Most  […]

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Log On As A Service related errors

Since the same issue occurred on various occasions, I will summarize it here. It is quite common for applications to create user accounts to run services under. This happens for SQL Server, HyperV, and a bunch of other software. However the service may refuse to start with a "log on as a  […]

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