Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is a protocol for Windows operating systems which is implemented as a web service and is used for secure remote management of systems. Following actions depends on WinRM configuration; Windows Remote Shell command line tool Winrs Event Forwarding Windows PowerShell 2...

I have been asked a number of times on the possibility of allowing or denying Windows 7 installation to specific MAC addresses. If you are performing a light touch installation (LTI) using MDT, you can append the MAC address to your customsettings.ini file. A sample configuration is shown below: ...

In my previous article Zero Touch Implementation with Configuration Manager 2007 R3 – part2 , we went over the required configuration for ZTI. We also installed and configured MDT integration with Configuration Manager. Throughout this article, we will build and capture a reference image to be used later...

Service pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is now RTM and released to MSDN and technet subscribers. The service pack will be available for public download on 22nd of Feb. This release adds new features for Windows 2008 R2. Major features are for Hyper-V and they are... Remote FX (details...

In my previous article Zero Touch Implementation with Configuration Manager 2007 R3 , we went over installing and configuring the required Windows, and Configuration Manager Roles for ZTI. We've also installed System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 version to benefit from the latest enhancements...

Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 includes several new incremental enhancements, it also introduces two important new features for customers using the Windows Server virtualization stack, the very good feature in SP1 is Dynamic Memory which is the subject for this post. Dynamic Memory is a new feature...

I found that it is very important to know what is new in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences, that is why I shared this information that I collected from Microsoft Documentation. With the release of Windows Server 2008 additional GPO functionality has been included in the operating...

One of the most important challenges that an organization can face is deploying or migrating operating systems to a bunch of computers. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a great product that can be used to automate the process of installing or migrating an Operating System. In SCCM...

Many companies estimate that nearly 50% of their data resides only on someone’s laptop, which is often travelling or remote to any company datacenter. PC administrators are looking for a better way to protect and recover Windows® laptops. Microsoft has heard from our customers and partners...

So I wanted to convert my virtual machine into a native boot, how hard can that be? Well because I am so lucky (maybe not!) I faced and done all the wrong steps and took all the bad turns. In this post I will concentrate more on the bad things I made and the problems I faced maybe to help you avoiding...