I tried to create a Windows 7 template in SCVMM and it kept failing, but it would not give me an error message, it would just fail. I did some digging around and found that sysprep was failing with an error –2147024864 . I kept digging and found that...

I often ask myself why our licensing has to be so hard to figure out. I heard a great quote this week while I’ve been in our semi-annual training and I thought I’d share it. We don’t have anyone that wakes up and says “How can I make <insert item here>...

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include additional group policy settings that give the administrator more granular management of their user's workstations. To leverage these new configuration items, the schema of a Server 2003 Active Directory forest...

One of my peers just purchased a very impressive server class machine. He's really proud of it, and he should be! He has 2 quad core CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 2 TB of Disk space. He built this machine to be a virtualization monster, so once he got it up and...

What is BitLocker? BitLocker lets you encrypt the hard drive(s) on your Windows 7 and Vista Enterprise, Windows 7 and Vista Ultimate or Windows Server 2008 and R2. BitLocker will not encrypt hard drives for Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. Only...

I received the following question: Thanks for the article. What do you do about your host system's pagefile? I'm thinking more about size. Do you leave the default? I have a 16GB system and 12GB of that is allocated to VMs. Do I size the host pagefile...

During the IT Pro Conference, someone asked if they could eliminate the UAC (and the local administrator requirements) just for printer driver installations on Windows Vista machines. Printer Drivers are the most difficult issue when it comes to removing...

I saw this post: http://ts2blogs.com/forums/p/2624/81847.aspx#81847 and thought I would take a shot a few of the questions. Is forefront compatible with vista? If you are talking about Forefront Client Security, yet is works great with Windows Vista Where...

We've already talked about BitLocker, but I wanted to provide an overview of the other encryption solutions for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Server 2003 / 2008. If there's interest, I'll drill into more detail on any / all of these, so please let me...