Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is one of Microsoft's solution accelerators. These products are available for free and are supported by Microsoft. The various solution accelerators cover a number of different aspects to managing Microsoft technologies. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is the tool that I am most familiar with. Paired with Windows Deployment Services on a Windows … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
McAfee DAT 6682 crashing systems
Just shy of the two year anniversary of when a McAfee antivirus definition contained a false positive that crippled Windows XP systems around the world, it seems the company is at it again. A McAfee Knowledge Base article describes the issue DAT 6682 is having with McAfee security for certain email products. McAfee has confirmed that incremental DAT 6682 may trigger message … [Read more...]
Best Practices in Active Directory
Microsoft TechNet Edge has a great collection of videos. One that I would like to call your attention to is this Active Directory Best Practices: Ten Years Later. If you touch the AD at all, I'd encourage you to watch the 55 minute video. It's broken down into different sections like organizing OUs, managing sites, and extreme consoles. Even if you have been using the Active … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Windows 7 includes Copy as Path on the context menu
I was a bit bummed when setting up my work computer recently that one of my trusty favorites, the Lammer Context menu, caused Windows Explorer.exe to crash on every right-click. (It still works well at home though.) I was disappointed to not have this tool for the two things I use frequently out of it: Copy the file's path and calculate checksum. Be bummed no more! Windows 7 … [Read more...]
Drag racing websites to compare speed
If you want to compare two website's loading time, you should check out whichloadsfaster.com. The service allows you to see which website loads faster and by what factor. It suggests some random matchups when you first visit the page like Google v. Bing, Apple v. Adobe, Amazon v. Shopzilla, and TMZ v OMG! but it's more useful for running your own tests on websites you are … [Read more...]