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. Resolving Problems After Applying an Update

    You can use System File Checker to try and resolve problems that occur after an update has been applied... Read More

  2. Robocopy in Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 20 June 2007
    • Section: Misc

    Robocopy is now part of Windows Vista... Read More

  3. Securely transfer data between Vista machines

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 25 Sept. 2007
    • Section: Networking

    How to securely transfer data between Vista machines... Read More

  4. Securing Access to Printers over the Internet

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 13 April 2010
    • Section: Networking

    How to enable HTTPS/SSL encryption for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)... Read More

  5. Specifying MAK Keys in Answer Files

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 16 Sept. 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    Where do you specify a MAK key in an answer file for automating installation of Vista?... Read More

  6. Specifying the target partition for unattended install of Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 15 July 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    Here is a tip on specifying the target partition when performing an unattended install of Windows Vista... Read More

  7. Specifying your name and organization during an unattended install of Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 22 July 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    You can configure your answer file to specify your name and organization during an unattended install of Vista... Read More

  8. Sysprep Error with Vista

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 30 Jan. 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    Resolving an error that can occur when sysprepping a Vista computer... Read More

  9. The Windows Automated Installation Kit

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 25 Oct. 2007
    • Section: Deployment

    Deploying workstations is something that can be very time consuming. Microsoft has recently released its Windows Automated Installation Toolkit to aide in this process... Read More

  10. Three more things you shouldn’t do with Sysprep

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 5 June 2008
    • Section: Deployment

    Three more things you shouldn’t do when running Sysprep on a Windows Vista computer... Read More