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Slow search on redirected and offline available users folders when online over “pretty-but-not-so-fast” network.

Posted by Jacques on 10th June 2011

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 [...]

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Windows 7: choosing what flavor to install from the same distribution…

Posted by Jacques on 22nd August 2009

I do not know the source of the following info: “With the version of the Windows installer that comes with Win7, there is a new file at /Sources/ei.cfg that tells the Windows installer what OS it should install. Here’s what the file looks like from the ultimate disc: [EditionID] Ultimate [Channel] Retail [VL] 0 When [...]

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Your investment in Vista deployment with WDS/MDT will be rewarded with Windows 7!

Posted by Jacques on 21st January 2009

All what you learned in this field can and will be used with Windows 7 and MDT 2010. This is great. And with nice improvements!. I grabbed what was most interesting to me from the Windows System Deployment blog: ImageX and its underlying infrastructure, which is used to manage Windows Image (WIM) format images, now [...]

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