Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base

• by Chris Sanders
• Published on 30 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

If you are a command prompt junkie then one of the most useful features you can have is the ability to open a command prompt window from your current working directory in Windows Explorer. This required a separate download in previous versions of Windows, but with a special trick it’s a bit easier in Windows 7... Read More

• by Chris Sanders
• Published on 29 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

Testing file servers for a supported workload has always been something that’s challenging outside of an actually deploying a server and seeing how it performs. Microsoft is currently testing a product which should allow for this to be done with great ease... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 24 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

How to resolve the issue of no task sequences being displayed when the Windows Deployment Wizard runs on the target computer... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 23 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

How to resolve an issue involving the use of the Sysprep and Capture task sequence in MDT 2010... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 23 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

This tip describes how you can select which MDT deployment share to use when several are available on the network... Read More

• by Chris Sanders
• Published on 22 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

There’s nothing more frustrating than waiting on your laptop to shut down so you can head out the door. The Xbootmgr utility from Microsoft can help troubleshoot lethargic shutdowns... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 17 March 2011
• Section: Miscellaneous

This tip describes how you can identify your reference computers by their MAC addresses so that you can capture an image of these computers... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 16 March 2011
• Section: Admin

How you can prevent users from changing the time zone setting on their computers... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 16 March 2011
• Section: Security

How you can prevent users from writing to writable CD/DVD on their computers... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 15 March 2011
• Section: Migration

Can you use answer files created for Windows Vista to perform unattended installs of Windows 7?... Read More