Today’s tip… Unlike Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows 8 has the ability to pre-provision the system volume during installation. To use BitLocker Pre-Provisioning, we have three options open to us, MDT 2012, SCCM 2012 SP1, or WinPE 4.0. In MDT 2012...

Today’s tip… Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 does not include .NET Framework 3.5 by default.  When you run an application that requires .NET Framework 3.5(for example MSSolve) Windows will automatically trigger to install the feature from Windows...

Today’s tip… How do I get the Start screen to come up in a remote session? If you’ve remoted into a Windows Server 2012 host or Windows 8 client using a legacy RDP client and wanted to get to the start menu, you may have already come across this annoying...

Today’s tip… IP-HTTPS is now the preferred IPv6 transition technology for DirectAccess. Direct Access allows clients to connect with various IPv6 transition technologies including Teredo, 6to4, and IP-HTTPS. In Windows Server 2008 R2, IP-HTTPS was the...

Today’s tip… This is more of an Office tip but I wanted to include it. Like others my age, my eyes are at a point where looking at a screen that is mostly white causes everything to blend together. This is really a problem when I’m using the new Office...