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This article is designed to address installing the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) role on a server running Windows Server Core.
Perform the following steps to install the WDS role on a server running Windows Server Core.
1. Type Start PowerShell in the Command Prompt window to start Windows PowerShell.
2. Type Install-WindowsFeature WDS and press Enter to install the WDS role.
Additional Information:
This information applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
The following Windows PowerShell cmdlets are available for managing WDS on a server running Windows Server Core.
Add-WdsDriverPackage - Adds an existing driver package to a driver group or injects it into a boot image.
Approve-WdsClient - Approves clients.
Copy-WdsInstallImage - Copies install images within an image group.
Deny-WdsClient - Denies approval for clients.
Disable-WdsBootImage - Disables a boot image.
Disable-WdsDriverPackage - Disables a driver package in the WDS driver store.
Disable-WdsInstallImage - Disables an install image.
Disconnect-WdsMulticastClient - Disconnects a multicast client from a transmission or namespace.
Enable-WdsBootImage - Enables a boot image.
Enable-WdsDriverPackage - Enables a driver package in the WDS driver store.
Enable-WdsInstallImage - Enables an install image.
Export-WdsBootImage - Exports an existing boot image from an image store.
Export-WdsInstallImage - Exports an existing install image from an image store.
Get-WdsBootImage - Gets properties of boot images from the image store.
Get-WdsClient - Gets client devices from the pending device database, or pre-staged devices from AD or the standalone server device database.
Get-WdsDriverPackage - Gets properties of driver packages from the WDS driver store.
Get-WdsInstallImage - Gets properties of install images from an image store.
Get-WdsInstallImageGroup - Gets properties of install image groups.
Get-WdsMulticastClient - Gets a list of clients connected to a multicast transmission or namespace.
Import-WdsBootImage - Imports a boot image to the image store.
Import-WdsDriverPackage - Imports a driver package into the WDS driver store.
Import-WdsInstallImage - Imports an install image to an image store.
New-WdsClient - Creates a pre-staged client.
New-WdsInstallImageGroup - Creates an install image group.
Remove-WdsBootImage - Removes a boot image from the image store.
Remove-WdsClient - Removes a pre-staged client from ADDS or the stand-alone server device database, or clears the Pending Devices database.
Remove-WdsDriverPackage - Removes a driver package from a driver group or removes it from all driver groups and deletes it.
Remove-WdsInstallImage - Removes an install image from an image store.
Remove-WdsInstallImageGroup - Removes an install image group.
Set-WdsBootImage - Modifies settings of a boot image.
Set-WdsClient - Modifies a pre-staged client device.
Set-WdsInstallImage - Modifies the properties of an install image.
Set-WdsInstallImageGroup - Modifies the name and access permissions of an install image group.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Pssst. Wanna buy a suit?
Walking in Dubai Marina I've been stopped now about ten times by a car pulling up alongside.
"Scusi. Can you please tell me the way to Sheikh Zayed Road, there are no signs"
The passenger is always Italian, presentable, friendly.
I tell him how to get to SZR.
Profuse thanks, then "Where are you from?"
"Ah, Australia. Melbourne or Sydney? I have a brother in Melbourne".
When I say Sydney they usually ask whether I know Machiavalli restaurant - one of my favourites as it happens.
They go on to say they've been working in Oz, more often than not as interior designer at the Versace hotel on the Gold Coast. But...they've changed occupations and now are in Italian fashion and can make me an offer which presumably is too good not to accept.
That's when I tell them I'm not buying and say ciao.
I wonder how the scam plays out. Anyone know?
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- Paraglider said...
I don't think it's really a scam so much as a hard sell of 'designer' copies. I went through the whole performance once, tried on two jackets, bought nothing and walked away. I was conscious throughout of my wallet, just in case it was a very elaborate pickpocket routine.
So no, I don't really get it either.
- July 20, 2011 4:00 pm
- Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept said...
gulfnews had covered the scam in xpress on july 14. As expected the suits are counterfeits but then you are buying them off the street. I think that's about it, you think you are getting a bargain but its not worth it. Plus the article says that the scammers mostly operate in Bur Dubai and Deira so it seems they are expanding. Google gulfnews ramadan alert top 5 scams for the full article.
- July 20, 2011 4:11 pm
- Neil Roberts said...
- July 20, 2011 6:37 pm
Festival City, ACE car park,
"Scuse, I canna find the Airpot...."
I thought it was Nino Culotta.
- July 20, 2011 9:25 pm
- Dave said...
A terrific part of Dubai's history I believe....
- July 21, 2011 11:14 am
- Seabee said...
Thanks all. I'm disappointed that's all it is, it's very unimaginative.
- July 21, 2011 2:29 pm
Yeah, I had them last year in the Springs village. I enjoyed the conversation as I speak Italian. It's a well known confidence trick. The old - establish rapport then, I just happen to have some suits/ speakers/ jewellery etc as you helped me I can help you - trick
- July 28, 2011 3:11 pm
hat happened to me in Dec 2011 in Dubai at Sheik Zayed Road at Dubai Marina Metro Station.
2 guys (italien??), white japanese (rented?) car, same story, (where you are from? Berlin! - I have business / girlfriend in Berlin...)3 Armani suits, left over , as a gift for me.... but please do me a favour... and so on.
They were so kind and brought me to the Hotel Grosvenor House, just around the corner.
As they recognized, that there was no business possible with me, they drove away after a while.
On the business card:
"Salvatore Management" - Import & Export Italian Fashion - Roma Telefax - Milano Telefax - E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com - www.modaitaliana.com
For interested people: I shot a photo from this guy....
- March 10, 2012 9:30 am
- Sascha said...
Hey Tom, I just had the same guy yesterday at Ibn Batutta Mall Parking Lot.
Same trick. White rental car. Two "italian" guys (I think they might have actually been meditaranian arabs maybe syrian or lebanese). Francesco a little bit overweight and Salvatore a presentable and avid business man. Same business card, same email address! They asked for the way to the airport, then wanted to give me a suit at the end they asked for a "small favor". 2000 Dirhams worth of perfume for them and their wives back in "Milano"! Yeah Right!
- March 21, 2012 12:09 pm
- Neil Roberts said...
Same story again this week in DIC.... The guys must sell some or they wouldn't keep trying
- March 23, 2012 9:31 am
Happened to me today in Tecom. Such a nice guy as well!! didn't buy anything just the usual three suits but some nice towels now with a bathrobe as an extra for the wife!!! Same MO white rental car actually probably a real one with a fake hertz logo on the back!!
- June 16, 2012 10:38 pm
Sorry but this is a complete scam.
Its a chap usually in a car with a colleague who's always in the drivers seat with the engine running.
Had a similar situation at ACE hardware in festival city until security saw him and they sped away.
The guy says he's looking for the airport having just been to a fashion show and doesn't want to fly back with the suits.
They're all copies as the inner sleeve tags are missing.
Be aware that this chap has been operating and preying on expats for a number of years.
- May 04, 2013 7:22 pm
I think I trapped into it today. Same story as everybody tells, but it sounded and looked so real. Suits seem really to have very good quality. And 3 suits for an Iphone5c is somehow still a good deal. Even buying a fake one somewhere in Kahrama would cost more.
The business card that he gave me says Cristian, the website is www.italianfashion.it. That really exists.
Oh well, I spent more money before for more stupid things. Let's see how long the suits last...
- November 20, 2013 10:44 pm
The guys are still around - Dubai Media City today - same story.
White Chrysler 300 reg no 68277 if I remember correctly.
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Home Business directory needs re-design of homepage and needs a design of a page for our new section called 'Get an Account'.
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All Nippon Airways grounds its entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, after one of its planes made an emergency landing in Japan. The WSJ's Jake Schlesinger has the detials.
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I ... the the ... AF is grounded its entire fleet of seventy seven Dreamliners ... after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing this morning in Japan ... the story still unfolding joining me now from Tokyo is Jake passenger ... to give your teeth for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones is let's ... say thanks for joining tell us what we know about this an M D tells are still unfolding as we speak ... sch yes will we know is that ... indeed as to fly the ... entire mountains of ... Japan made an emergency landing ... aam ... Chanos is the first time in the miner has actually taken an extreme caution ... after reported incident they need emergency landing ... after ... a battery alarm alert went off on ... after ... the fire department the smoke was detected somewhere inside the plane ... 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ALM so I think it it's the right question to ask but I think of me while we know whether this actually changes the market shares or market opportunities ... and to pay as you well know is the country and train playing car or aficionados ... is there any kind of consumer backlash or comments that were hearing about the seven eight seven with regard to edge out people who are extra cautious about ... flying on these plans are saying that they don't want to ... the ... keynote today there's been no sign of the um what was in junior transport minister yesterday in surprisingly one country surprising to me ... aam did raise the question safety concerns um ... this incident perhaps is the potential to change that and that began it was the drum of an emergency landing ... on which was broadcast all over the morning TV ... 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It seems you got anime in my angsty. Katana draws you into the violent and chaotic world of an Assassin on the run: - from his Order; from the shattered remains of his past; and from the haunting screams of the countless people he's murdered.
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This mod was acutally modeled after a real university and a story played around it! It makes use of a few other mods like Kung Fu 3 Deluxe Engine (by Kenneth Yeung, MrUniq) and the Enemy Kung Fu (by Ghasp) engine to round (house kick) out the mod.
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Hammel solid, but A's fall from first on late HR
HOUSTON -- Jason Hammel turned in his best start in green and gold Tuesday, a seven-inning gem that was spoiled by one Luke Gregerson pitch in the eighth, launched high and far over the left-field wall by former A's slugger Chris Carter.
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"That's baseball," Gregerson said. "One pitch can change the entire dynamic of the game."
And the standings. Oakland fell a game behind the Angels, who beat the Marlins, 8-2, in the American League West -- a reminder that there's little room for error amid such a crucial stretch.
Gregerson easily retired his first batter and nearly his second, but second baseman Eric Sogard's throw on Robbie Grossman's routine grounder was dropped by first baseman Stephen Vogt. Gregerson proceeded to hit Jose Altuve -- "I tried to quick-pitch that first one just to keep the guy at first honest and it just got away," he said -- to bring up Carter with just one out.
"It's a normal throw from Sogie, and it just hit off the thumb of my glove. It's inexcusable, obviously," Vogt said. "I wish I could say this or this happened, but just one of those things where I didn't believe it myself until after I missed it. I'd like to say, throw that ball 99 out of 100 times, obviously it's going to be caught. You shouldn't even have to say that because the ball should be caught, so obviously not thrilled with myself. It definitely changed the momentum of the inning. Big play."
"Doesn't happen very often," said manager Bob Melvin.
What Carter did next does, though. It was the second homer of the series and 32nd overall for the designated hitter, whose five long balls off Oakland are his most against any team.
Carter was once theirs, before the A's packaged him in the Jed Lowrie deal last spring.
"I was trying to throw a sinker down and away, and it started away and just ran all the way back across the plate, down and in," Gregerson said. "Not necessarily a bad location for a lot of guys, just not for him."
"Chris Carter, I'll tell you what, he's putting together some kind of season," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "And the home runs are getting bigger and bigger."
Gregerson dropped to 3-3 with the loss, while Hammel, throwing on 10 days' rest, was forced to swallow a no-decision despite a highly encouraging performance.
He's done this before, flashing the kind of stuff that is a reminder why the A's traded for him in July. He's just yet to do it consistently, though Tuesday's solid outing against the Astros likely secured him more time for an opportunity at just that.
It was just Hammel's second quality start in eight tries with the A's. The right-hander allowed a fourth-inning leadoff homer to Dexter Fowler but just two other hits and one walk. He fanned six and retired each of his final 10 batters, including four on strikeouts.
Less than a month ago, pitching on the same mound, Hammel allowed eight runs in 4 1/3 innings.
"I'm sure his last start here was on his mind," A's left fielder Jonny Gomes said. "Maybe that little bit of extra rest gave him some help.
"Hammel's a heck of a pitcher. He throws hard and has that big hook. He's just run into some tough luck at times. His start tonight was A-plus, excellent job. At the same time, it shouldn't surprise you, because that's the type of guy he is."
Hammel got plenty help from his defense in the one-run outing. Gomes not only saved two runs with a superb diving catch in left field to end the third -- "That's max extension for me," he said -- but also provided a pair of hits, including a first-inning RBI single to give the A's a quick 1-0 lead. Nate Freiman contributed an RBI double in the fourth.
"Definitely the best since I've been here," Hammel said. "I felt very collected, throwing with conviction, being aggressive and getting ahead of guys. That's usually a pretty good formula. Outstanding defense, too."
"That's about as well as he's pitched, certainly the later innings," Melvin said. "Good for his confidence. He's going to have some big starts for us down the stretch."
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Kiki van Eijk
Lunchroom De Binnenstad | view 6
Joost van Bleiswijk and Kiki van Eijk took the assignment for the full interior of a newly established lunchroom in the centre of Eindhoven. From the tables to the wallhangings from the cutlery to the chocolates, all was designed by Joost and Kiki.
Breakfast, lunch, take-away, Lunchroom De Binnenstad has it all; ingredients of top quality, carefully selected wines, biological dairy, and a impressive and hospitable interior, with amongst others colored handknotted lamps of Kiki and heavy welded steel tables from Joost.
Lunchroom De Binnenstad
Emmasingel 35D
5611AZ Eindhoven
Photography by Don van Hout