As the final installment in my Windows 7 holiday series, have a look at what is being left for Santa at our house.  These were made from dough from my wife’s batch of Snickerdoodles.  (It’s the final installment because these projects are causing...

A while back I wrote two articles for TechNet Magazine describing a set of tools to work around a number of shortcomings when trying to elevate some types of tasks in Windows Vista and higher with User Account Control enabled.  I have even written...

The DevCon utility acts as a command-line version of Device Manager. Using DevCon, you can enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices.  However, because this utility is not part of the operating system...

Before I became a “Deployment Guy”, I used to be an “Active Directory Guy” and worked on quite a few Active Directory deployments and migrations.  When users, groups, and computers are migrated to a new domain, the resources (files, shares, user...

As some of you may have noticed, we have a new Deployment Guy, Samesh Singh . As you can see from Samesh’s BIO here , he is from Australia and is an expert in deployment technologies. He has already gotten off to a great start by posting an excellent...

Since I’m the newbie in the Deployment Guys, I thought I’d take a step back to Windows Vista to discuss an issue that is not strictly deployment, but affects a deployment, and the steady state of an environment. I should also add that most of the investigative...

ConfigMgr allows for great extensibility to perform right click actions. You can find information on this here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc143056.aspx . Those of you that have done this before know that the first step is digging through...

In a recent blog post , Mark Russinovich wrote about the implications of having duplicate machine Security Identifiers (machine SIDs).  As it turns out, there are likely very few situations where having duplicate machine SIDs causes issues. ...

When you pre-load an OEM build on machines, they are usually set-up to perform Mini-setup as soon as they come up. Customers sometimes have difficulties ensuring that these machines boot to WinPE using boot media or PXE rather than simply performing Mini...