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. Group Policy and Event Logs in Vista

    In previous versions of Windows, Group Policy information was logged to the System log and additional troubleshooting information could be obtained by enabling Userenv.dll logging... Read More

  2. Enabling Group Policy Debug Logging in Vista

    In Windows Vista and later you can obtain additional detailed information concerning Group Policy processing by enabling debug logging. This can be useful when troubleshooting Group Policy processing issues... Read More

  3. Logon Scripts, Group Policy Preferences, and Windows Vista

    Many logon scripts that worked with Windows operating systems won’t work with Windows Vista. Here’s what you can do to replace them... Read More

  4. WinRE partitions and Vista SP1

    If you've deployed Vista RTM computers with a WinRE RTM partition, do you have to update the WinRE partition to SP1 when you update your operating system to SP1?... Read More

  5. Unblocking executable files on Vista

    How to get rid of an annoying security dialog... Read More

  6. How to Disable Ad Hoc Wireless Connections on Vista

    Windows Vista won’t automatically create ad hoc wireless connections with other computers, but for greater security you may want to disable ad-hoc wireless connections entirely. Here’s how to do this... 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. Installing updates on Windows PE

    You can install updates on your Windows PE build environment using the peimg command... Read More

  9. Prepping Windows PE for capture

    Prepping a Windows PE build environment removes any components that are present in the component store but have not been installed... Read More

  10. Adding device drivers offline to Windows PE

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