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. Block installation of Windows XP Mode

    Some ways you can prevent users from installing Windows XP Mode on their Windows 7 Enterprise computers... Read More

  2. Deploying Windows 7 with BitLocker using MDT 2010

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 19 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    A tip concerning deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2010 and enabling BitLocker with TPM+PIN on target computers... Read More

  3. Installing Language Interface Packs using MDT 2010

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 18 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    How to install Language Interface Packs using MDT 2010... Read More

  4. How transparent caching works

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 17 April 2012
    • Section: Network

    Answers two questions about how transparent caching works in Windows 7... Read More

  5. Enabling standard users to write to the root folder

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 April 2012
    • Section: Security

    Can you enable standard users to write to the root folder C:\\ in Windows 7? Should you?... Read More

  6. Differences how environment variables are resolved when using RUP

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

    This tip explains a difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP in how environment variables are resolved when logging on using a roaming user profile... Read More

  7. 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

  8. Excluding files when an image is captured using MDT 2010

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 5 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    How to exclude files when a Windows operating system image is captured from a reference computer using MDT 2010... Read More

  9. Registry setting not applied during deployment

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 4 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    This tip provides updated info concerning an earlier tip about a registry setting not being applied during deployment when a task sequence runs in MDT 2010... Read More

  10. Using MDT 2010 in a Group Policy environment

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 4 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    How to resolve common issues when deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2010 in a production environment where Group Policy will be applied to the target computers... Read More