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1) Improving Group Policy performance: Date - May 22, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; A tip on improving Group Policy processing performance by limiting the number of GPOs you are using in your environment.
2) Troubleshooting: Remote Desktop connection to server fails: Date - May 17, 2012; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; An example of how to resolve a problem where you can’t Remote Desktop into a server using a saved .rdp connectoid that previously worked just fine.
3) Troubleshooting: Windows Easy Transfer and temporary profiles: Date - May 16, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to resolve an issue where Windows Easy Transfer fails because of temporary profiles stored in the registry.
4) Troubleshooting: Incompatible CD/DVD driver: Date - May 16, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; An example of how to resolve a problem where installing an older application on Windows 7 x64 created a driver compatibility issue that prevented the CD/DVD drive from functional.
5) Running 16-bit applications on 64-bit Windows 7: Date - May 15, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Applications; How to run older 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows 7.
6) Turn User Account Control (UAC) On/Off: Date - May 10, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Toggle UAC on and off via a Registry key, in addition to the Control Panel.
7) Registry Editing Tips: Date - May 09, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Navigate directly to Registry keys and perform changes much quicker.
8) Change the Registered Owner in Windows: Date - May 09, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Admin; Registry change lets you modify the registered name and organization.
9) Remove “Shortcut” Text From New Shortcuts: Date - May 08, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Simple Registry change instead of renaming all the new shortcuts you create.
10) Hide Drives from Your Computer: Date - May 03, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Remove drives from windows and dialogs, but allow access by commands and applications.
11) Understanding Preferred IPv6 addresses: Date - May 02, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Understanding what "Preferred" means with regard to an IPv6 address when you run ipconfig on a Windows 7 computer.
12) Troubleshooting: Logon screen language is not correct: Date - May 02, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to troubleshoot a problem where you install a language pack on Windows 7 Enterprise and your logon screen doesn't display text in the correct language.
13) Troubleshooting: Out-of-box driver deployment using WDS: Date - Apr 26, 2012; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to troubleshoot a problem where you try to deploy a driver to a computer using Windows Deployment Services and you get the message "Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device".
14) Troubleshooting: Changing the timeout on the WDS boot screen: Date - Apr 26, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to troubleshoot a problem where you try to change the default timeout value for the Windows Deployment Services boot screen but your change doesn't take effect.
15) Block installation of Windows XP Mode: Date - Apr 20, 2012; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Virtual Platforms; Some ways you can prevent users from installing Windows XP Mode on their Windows 7 Enterprise computers.
16) Deploying Windows 7 with BitLocker using MDT 2010: Date - Apr 19, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; A tip concerning deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2010 and enabling BitLocker with TPM+PIN on target computers.
17) Installing Language Interface Packs using MDT 2010: Date - Apr 18, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to install Language Interface Packs using MDT 2010.
18) Padlock icon in Windows Explorer: Date - Apr 18, 2012; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; What does the padlock icon mean in Windows Explorer?
19) How transparent caching works: Date - Apr 17, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Answers two questions about how transparent caching works in Windows 7.
20) Enabling standard users to write to the root folder: Date - Apr 12, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Can you enable standard users to write to the root folder C:\ in Windows 7? Should you?
21) Differences how environment variables are resolved when using RUP: Date - Apr 11, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; This tip explains a difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP in how environment variables are resolved when logging on using a roaming user profile.
22) Possible Reasons to Stay with x86 Windows for PCs: Date - Apr 11, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; You're going to migrate your corporate PC environment Windows 7. Should you deploy x64 or x86 Windows 7?
23) Don't add service accounts to the local Administrators group: Date - Apr 10, 2012; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Why you should never add service accounts to the local Administrators group on a computer.
24) Excluding files when an image is captured using MDT 2010: Date - Apr 05, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to exclude files when a Windows operating system image is captured from a reference computer using MDT 2010.
25) Registry setting not applied during deployment: Date - Apr 04, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; This tip provides updated info concerning an earlier tip about a registry setting not being applied during deployment when a task sequence runs in MDT 2010.
26) Using MDT 2010 in a Group Policy environment: Date - Apr 04, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to resolve common issues when deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2010 in a production environment where Group Policy will be applied to the target computers.
27) Configuring a secondary DNS server from the command line: Date - Apr 03, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; How to configuring a secondary DNS server on a client computer from the command line.
28) Configuring IE home page using MDT 2010: Date - Mar 29, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; Here's a tip from a reader about configuring the Internet Explorer home page when deploying Windows 7 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.
29) Limit the Workstations Where Users Can Login: Date - Mar 28, 2012; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Specify up to 8 computers a user can logon with.
30) Limit the Login Time of Users: Date - Mar 28, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Admin; Specify exact when a user can login for control and security reasons.