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Under XP, I used wab.exe for years as an LDAP query utility. The functions of the Windows Address Book has been enhanced with Vista, and the configuration changed quite a lot. So just follow these few steps to have a nice LDAP query utility: Create a shortcut to "C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\wab.exe" /find, find a nice [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL and MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images 1. Add your captured image Your custom image has now been captured on your deployment server under C:\Distribution\Captures. You can rename the wim file to MasterVistaSP1x86.wim if you [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images IV -MDT 2008: MICROSOFT DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT 2008 1. The Components First you’ll add all the ingredients you need for your recipes. You will add new ingredients for new [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIK ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images II – WAIK 1.1: WINDOWS AUTOMATED INSTALLATION KIT The WAIK contains a collection of tools such as ImageX, System Image Manager, Package Manager, CopyPE, PEImg, help and doc [...]

Post overview Part I: WDS Part II&III: WAIL ans MS-SQL Part IV: MDT – Building and capturing master images Part V: MDT – Deploying master images images I – WDS: WINDOWS DEPLOYMENT SERVICES Since we will use the MDT LiteTouch to build a hardware unspecific, but customized Vista SP1 image, to sysprep and capture it, [...]

I created this post to document the major steps I went through during my Vista deployment project. So it is intended as a reference for my own usage, but you might find it useful if you want to deploy Vista SP1 and/or Windows 2008 server in a fully automated way without third party tools, nor [...]

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 [...]