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I had a hand in rolling out Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) for a customer recently. Some of our clients did not get FEP installed even though the SCCM client was installed and working correctly, and they had all prerequisites present and had successfully received the advertisement and downloaded the files from the distribution point (DP). …
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I was enabling Folder Redirection for some Windows 7 Professional machines, or rather, for the users of some Windows 7 Professional machines. The users already had a server based home directory with a My Documents folder, which also had data. The purpose of the operation was to, firstly, enable Folder Redirectin, but also to merge …
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You copy a desktop.ini file into a folder to customize and maybe localize it. You have correctly set the file’s attributes to Hidden, System and Read-Only, but still your customizations do not work. To make it work you need to set the Read-Only or System flags on the folder where the desktop.ini file resides. As …
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I wanted to reinstall a Lenovo X1 portable computer. While preparing to wipe the machine I used ProduKey from NirSoft to extract the product keys for the installed software. This particular machine was sold with an OEM license, for which the product key was affixed under the machine. I quickly noticed that the key printed …
Here is a quick script to just install, or install and enable the Windows 7 Remote System Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. I created it for use with the software deployment functionality in System Center Configuration Manager, but it is not limited to that. ‘ InstallRSAT.vbs ‘ v 1.0 (15.06.2011) …
Can the computername in Windows 7 be more than 15 characters? Yup!
A new tool is being offered through Windows Update; the System Update Readiness (SUR) Tool. It is designed to help diagnose and fix issues that are preventing Windows updates or Service Packs from installing correctly. According to the documentation it is only offered to systems that are experiencing one of the conditions that the tool …
Introduction Windows 7 has a new framework; the Windows Sensor and Location Platform. In short it is a system that enables the OS to utilize different sensors; e.g. a GPS device to track your location, a light sensor to dynamically adjust your screen brightness based on the ambient lighting, an accelerometer to use for games …
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Someone once told me “Users and printers take the fun out of the whole network.” The printing part I am inclined to agree with… I met up with an old friend today that works for a large printer manufacturer and he imparted the following printing tips to me: Disable bidirectional support on your printer This …
Introduction A performance baseline is a vital part of you system documentation. A baseline should be established immediately after a new system has entered production, and should be repeated with regular intervals. That way you can see how your system performs over time and make informed decisions about when a system will have to be …