If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

My goal is to create a new VMware datastore on my Windows Server specifically for *.iso images. This allows me to store these images away from the Virtual OS itself and helps relieve a bit of storage space.
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One of the first of my Exchange 2010 issues to resolve. The issue involves the receive connector’s permissions that are configured to only allow authenticated access. You can easily configure this with Exchange PowerShell Management Console.
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I’d just done a transfer of one VMware image to another server but the NIC drivers didn’t seem to transfer over correctly. Wasn’t an issue, just added a new virtual adapter but when I tried to add the previously used IP address I got the following message:

Microsoft TCP/IP
The IP address 10.77.77.7 you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another 'NIC1'. 'NIC1' is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a legacy adapter that is not working. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they become active, only one of them will use this address. This may result in incorrect system configuration. Do you want to enter a different IP address for this adapter in the list of IP addresses in the advanced dialog box?

Just to note, this is not specifically a VMware error either. I have come across this before in a genuine installation.
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The time has come when we have to move on from the long lasting Windows XP and jump onto the Windows 7 ladder. So my first real post on this will be creating a bootable USB drive.
I tried this process from Windows XP but it wouldn’t read the USB drive as an active partition. So I have to recommend using any OS version above XP ie Vista, 7 or 2008.
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In this case when trying to start an OS within Hyper-V, I was getting the error message “Virtual Machine Could Not be Started because Hypervisor is Not Running”. I was running a Hp ProLiant DL385 G5 with an AMD 2356 CPU and the OS was Windows Server 2008.
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Sometimes your GoldMine emails can be caught by spam filters and one of the reasons for this, people are claiming, is that your email header states ‘X-Mailer: GoldMine [8.5.2.9]‘ somewhere. The X-Mailer part of an email header is to notify the mail server what software has been used to send the email, so for example if the email was sent by Outlook it would something similar to ‘X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510′. We can change this within GoldMine to make it look as if our GoldMine was using Outlook quite easily.
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