Admin Tips

Last Updated on 14 July 2016, Total: 230 Knowledge Base Tips

3 Active Directory
63 Admin
3 Applications
45 Migration
64 Miscellaneous
23 Network
27 Security
2 Virtual Platforms

  1. Non-admins and ActiveX controls

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 16 June 2012
    • Section: Security

    How to enable non-admins to install ActiveX controls... Read More

  2. Opening Command Prompts at Your Current Location in Windows 7

    If you are a command prompt junkie then one of the most useful features you can have is the ability to open a command prompt window from your current working directory in Windows Explorer. This required a separate download in previous versions of Windows, but with a special trick it’s a bit easier in Windows 7... Read More

  3. Per-user blocking of data cards and USB drives

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 3 Oct. 2012
    • Section: Admin

    A tip on how you can perform per-user blocking of data cards and USB drives on Windows 7... Read More

  4. Performing a disk wipe using SDelete

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 4 June 2015
    • Section: Admin

    A tip on how to securely wipe a hard drive using the SDelete utility from Windows Sysinternals... Read More

  5. Port requirements for linked deployment shares

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 19 Sept. 2012
    • Section: Migration

    Describes the port requirements for linked deployment shares in MDT 2010... Read More

  6. Possible Reasons to Stay with x86 Windows for PCs

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 11 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    You're going to migrate your corporate PC environment Windows 7. Should you deploy x64 or x86 Windows 7?... Read More

  7. Pre-mapping network drives

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 31 Aug. 2011
    • Section: Network

    How to map a network drive when the share you need to connect to isn't available... Read More

  8. Pre-specifying the computer name for Windows PE

    Here's a tip on how you can pre-specify the computer name for Windows PE... Read More

  9. Prevent opening a command prompt window in Windows PE

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 20 Dec. 2011
    • Section: Migration

    This tip describes how to prevent opening a command prompt window in Windows PE... Read More

  10. Prevent use of writable CD/DVD drives

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 16 March 2011
    • Section: Security

    How you can prevent users from writing to writable CD/DVD on their computers... Read More