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In our Windows 7 client environment, we use roaming profiles, redirected shell folders (including Start Menu), and offline files by default. Offline files are indexed by policy. So we assume searching the redirected user folders to be be fast, since everything is indexed locally, and even read operations are performed on the local cache since [...]

Some SysAdmins are confronted with domain member servers or domain member computers regularly loose there trust relationship with the domain controllers, forcing them to logon as local admin and re-join the machine to the domain. The explanation is easy. Every domain computer has an AD computer account with an automatically generated password. Computer account passwords [...]

Among the many make and models I have deploy Vista to, a specific notebook model crashed during litetouch deployment with following error: ”Windows could not parse or process unattended answer file [C:\Windows\Panther\unattended.xml] for pass [Specialize]. The answer file is invalid.” This issue was not that easy to solve. It turned out that the error was [...]

When running WAIK 1.1 on a x64 Vista or x64 Windows 2008 systems, you cannot generate a catalog for a captures x86 Vista or Windows 2008. It’s a shame, really. But there is a workaround: Copy the original catalog of your Vista x86 (INSTALL_WINDOWS VISTA ENTERPRISE.CLG) from your distribution share’s original OS (Distribution\Operating Systems\OriginalVistaEntSP1x86\sources) to [...]

The script LTIApply I got in the download of MDT2008 x64 has a bug, to my humble opinion: Line 255 should read: BackupStore oEnvironment.Item(“DestinationLogicalDrive”) & “\boot\bcd.save” and not: BackupStore oEnvironment.Item(“DestinationLogicalDrive”) & “\sources\bcd.save” Without this correction, the script ZTIBackup.wsf will not fine the bcd.save to overwrite the bcd store and your capture image will always try [...]

Recently I had to install a 4D server on a Windows 2008 machine. This database server uses windows services for providing the database service to client computers. Unfortunately, the services output a database status window, including running transactions, logged-in users and backup reports to the user desktop. Since Windows services are running in session 0, [...]

Recently, I installed the Hyper-V role (still a beta version) on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Windows 2008 x64 Enterprise. The server was equiped with two dual port gigabit NIC interfaces, one Broadcom Nextreme II on board and one Intel PRO 1000PT Dual PortI on the PCIe x4 bus . Virtual machine using a [...]

Credit to: Mary Jane On a computer that has 4 GB of RAM, the System Properties dialog box and the System Information dialog box may report less memory than you expect. This problem occurs because the address space is limited to 4 GB in a 32-bit hardware environment. Memory may be relocated to make room [...]