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Found it. I did not even need to write a script. Just put a shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\tsdiscon.exe in your startup folder.

I found this solution at this site: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-automatically-login-to-windows-and-then-lock-the-workstation/

Here is another site if you do want to write a script in order to lock a remote workstation.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1115.mspx

Both my web server and exchange server are running on Microsoft Virtual PC. I was getting tired of having the start the servers manually when restarting the host. I did some searching on the internet and came up with a VB script to fix the problem.

Here it is:

Option Explicit
Dim WSHShell, WSHShell1, WSHShell2

'Now launch virtual machine
Set WSHShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual PC.exe"

WScript.Sleep(5000)

Set WSHShell1 = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell1.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Virtual Machines\VM name1.vmc"

Set WSHShell2 = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell2.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Virtual Machines\VM name2.vmc"

I just saved this to a .vbs file and put it in my startup folder. Now when I log in after a restart the VMs will startup automatically. Now I just need to edit the registry to auto logon and create script to lock my computer after logon. This should save me from having to login after a windows update installing in the night.

This webpage helped me out: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1484499&page=7
There sleep syntax was not right so I changed it to WScript.Sleep(5000). Without the sleep I could not get the VMS to start.

I attended Microsoft’s “getVirtual Now” in which Microsoft’s latest virtualization solutions were presented. The conference took place at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA on October 13, 2008.

Microsoft’s northwest general manger James Parking kicked off the day’s festivities. The subjects to be covered were Hyper-V, virtualization in Microsoft’s IT, and application virtualization.

The section on Hyper-V was presented by Steve Wilder and Manjnath Ajjampur. Wilder was the key presenter of this segment and Ajjampur was the man behind the demonstrations. The highlighted points I received from their presentation were not engaging. One of these points was Hyper-V can use a Virtual Services Provider (VSP) and a Virtual Services Client to create a virtual switch for client VMs to pass network traffic through memory. Some uneventful demonstrations followed for creating the virtual switch and creating Virtual machine templates.
The biggest thing on my mind during this presentation was if Microsoft had a solution to compete with VMware’s V-Motion. I apparently was not the only one thinking this because the question came up in the Q&A. Wilder responded with “it will be part of the next windows server release.” Somewhere around the beginning of 2010 and the products name is “Live Migration.”

The second segment was geared more towards the business folks. The presenter was Paul Selsor one of Microsoft’s IT managers. He presented on the topic of consolidating Microsoft’s data centers and how the process of server allocation has been changing. Years prior when developers needed a server for a project it was ordered and installed with no questions asked. Now server usage is being audited to see if the server would be a viable fit for virtualization. Here are some interesting numbers that came out of his slides:

Technet 100% virtualized

MSDN 100% virtualized

Microsoft.com 50% virtualized

Selsor also mentioned Windows 7 Alpha 1 would start deployment to Microsoft IT branch offices on 10/14/2008.

The last segment of the conference was on application virtualization. Microsoft’s Desktop Optimization Pack includes App-V (formally known as SoftGrid). This was probably the most exciting part of the conference for me. They showed how App-V could be used to deploy applications in an isolated virtual container. To deploy the applications to the users it was as easy as dragging the application package to the correct OU in a lookalike active directory panel. Thin client virtualization was also brought up with the use of Citrix’s Zen Desktop.

Here is a picture of my maple brown. This beer is definitely a session beer with a sweet maple flavor. Here are the numbers.

Ae: 3.50
Alc: 3.75
PH: 4.57
Density: 1.01188

A little disappointed with 3.75% alcohol, but there is always room for improvement.

Pale Malt Extract 5.50 lbs.
Chocolate Roast 4.00 oz.
Caramel Malt (60°L) 12.00 oz.
Pale Malt 3 hand full’s
Pure Maple Syrup 8.50 oz.
Centennial 1.00 oz.
Willamette 0.50 oz.
Ale yeast 200 ml

My brown ale is finally finished after four long weeks. I have named my brown ale “Brown Ale Eh!” due to the fact that I used maple syrup that comes from Canada. Above is the ingredients and what follows is the process I used.
I first I put all my milled grain in a nylon steeping bag. I then throw the bag of grain in a pot of 160°F water for 30 minutes. I then racked the steeped water into my kettle with more water to make about 3 gallon s for my boil. Brought my kettle up to a boil and then removed the kettle from the heat to dissolve my extract into the water. Once the extract had dissolved I put the kettle back on the burner and brought the brew up to a rolling boil.
The Centennial hops were supposed to go in after 30 minutes of the boil, but I slowly started throwing some in to keep from boiling over. After 30 minutes I through the rest of the centennials in and at 60 minutes I through my Willamette’s in the boil. After a 90 minute boil I removed the kettle from the heat and poured my hot wort through a screened funnel into my soda keg. I then used CO2 to push the wort through my counter-flow chiller. I pitched 200ml of yeast at 72°F.
Here is a table of my measured gravities
Time Gravity Plato
Day 0 1.055 13.75
Day 3 1.022 5.5
Day 6 1.018 4.5
Day 7 1.016 4

I fermented at 68°F for seven days in a bucket and then I racked to my carboy. The beer was left for four days in the carboy at 65°F and was chill down on the last day to around 30°F. The beer was then racked into a soda keg with half a cup of corn sugar and one tablespoon of fresh yeast. Here the beer sat in the keg for two long weeks.
The beer is now finished and hooked up to the kegerator. Beer definitely has a maple taste and is much sweeter than I anticipated. The body of the beer is very thin as well. Will post some tested numbers as soon as I have a chance to analyze the beer.