Just press the home button and press the power button:

This is a bit of pain when you are using VMware and Ubuntu as every time there is a MAC address change udev will create another adapter i.e. eth0 will become eth1 and eth0 will seem to disappear. To stop this behaviour add this: ENV{MATCHADDR}=="00:0c:29:|00:50:56:", ENV{MATCHADDR}="" To the following file /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules url:/2009/09/29/adding-a-udev-rule-to-ignore-vmware-mac-address-changes-in-ubuntu-guests/

Type in: *#0000# Of course you do…

Right click + ctrl on the Exchange icon in the system tray:

Why oh why do I ALWAYS forget: sudo a2enmod rewrite Every single time it’s the same old run-around which leads to: sudo a2enmod rewrite aaaaaaaa, remember remember remember…

You can use this to list the MAC address on the current machine: getmac /V It also has remote options too: getmac /S computer /U domain\user /P password This is quite usefull when you do not have any protocols attached so the MAC will not show up in ipconfig. It saves you going through the GUI for each adapter you want to check. I’m not sure how I have missed this for so long.

I’m not really sure how you are supposed to find this out (apart from google) but after installing, you are presented with a login window without specifying a password. Interesting. Well the password is: wSS2008! I am lost for words.

I’m not sure the reason for the hibernation file hiberfil.sys being enabled in a default Windows 2008 Server install, but use this to remove it: powercfg.exe /hibernate off If for some reason you need to put it back, use: powercfg.exe /hibernate on You need to use this command, as this setting is unavailable in the GUI. This also can apply to Windows 7 especially after a P2V.