Admin Tips

Last Updated on 7 July 2011, Total: 116 Knowledge Base Tips

29 Administration
1 Application Compatibility
1 Built-in Diagnostics
42 Deployment
11 Misc
18 Networking
5 Security
9 Troubleshooting

  1. Adding Boot Critical Drivers During Unattended Installation of Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 13 Feb. 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    How to add Boot Critical drivers during Unattended Installation of Vista... Read More

  2. Adding comments to answer files

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 June 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    You can add comments to your XML answer files to keep track of what your answer files are used for... Read More

  3. Adding device drivers offline to Windows PE

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 17 Dec. 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    You can add device drivers to an offline Windows PE build environment by using the peimg command... Read More

  4. Adding device drivers online to Windows PE

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 Jan. 2009
    • Section: Deployment

    You can add device drivers to dynamically when running Windows PE by using the drvload command... Read More

  5. Allowing Pings (ICMP Echo Requests) in Vista

    If a Vista machine doesn't ever respond to pings, you can enable ICMP Echo Requests... Read More

  6. Backing up event logs

    How to configure Vista to back up event logs... Read More

  7. Branding the Vista Logon Screen

    Enterprises could easily brand the logon screen for Windows XP. For Vista however, doing this requires a third-party product... Read More

  8. Breaking into a command prompt in Windows PE

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 24 April 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    How to open a command prompt during the Windows PE phase of Windows Setup for Vista... Read More

  9. Breaking into audit mode

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 21 May 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    How to break into audit mode during a manual install of Windows Vista... Read More

  10. Changes to Sysprep switches in Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 May 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    Differences between Sysprep options for Vista compared with XP... Read More