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Migrating Windows NT From Legacy Hardware to a Parallels Virtual Machine

I recently had to rescue a legacy application that was running on an old Compaq Proliant server. This custom application is primarily a web application running on MS SQL Server, however there are various services and automated tasks and the application is fairly well embedded onto this hardware. The application has gone through [...]

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Recovering a lost NT 4.0 Administrator Password

Recently an old application server arrived at the office. The server was running NT 4 and MS SQL server. We needed to get the machine running to do some reverse engineering of the code and database, however the administrator password had been lost. The original developer had moved out of state and [...]

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Launch Parallels Windows App From the OSX Dock

Update: The proof of concept that I did here was actually implemented as a feature into Parallels version 2.5. Did my idea inspire them or where they already working on it…? The world may never know! My humble idea had it’s 15 minutes of fame on the social network sites. Alas, [...]

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