SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption – part 2
In part 1, I talked about the requirements for Bitlocker and showed you how to extend your Active Directory Schema if you run Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers. We then sat the permission so that a Windows 7 machine was able to write its own TPM owner password to Active [...]
Category: Config Mgr, Tips and Tricks, Windows 7 | 1 Comment
SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption – part 1
If you use Configuration Manager 2007 it is pretty simple to enable Bitlocker as part of your OS deployment. But you still need prepare your environment for Bitlocker and this is done external of Configuration Manager 2007. This guide is meant for SCCM admins wanting to enable Bitlocker and will guide you through the process [...]
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USMT 4.0, Hardlink and Bitlocker in SCCM OSD
USMT 4.0, Hardlink and Bitlocker in SCCM OSD
Category: OS Deployment, Windows 7 | 13 Comments
Windows 7 SP1 with Configuration Manager 2007 R3
No, it’s not officially supported yet but that shouldn’t stop us from testing the new Windows 7 service pack 1
Category: Configuration Manager, Tips and tricks, Windows 7 | 7 Comments
The annoyance of none elevated command prompts.
You know how when ever you run something from a prompt in Windows 7 or Server2008 you need to remember to elevate the privileges, or you will get the annoying message that you do not have administrative privileges, which then means you will have to open a new prompt, run it as administrator, and do [...]
Category: OS Deployment, Tips and tricks, WAIK, Windows 7 | 2 Comments
Changing boot order in Vista/Windows 7
If you do not want to play around with BCDedit or 3rd party tools like EasyBCD, it is quit easy to change boot order from within Windows 7. I Know that this is kind of low tech, but I notice a lot of questions out there regarding, how to change the boot order using BCDedit. [...]
Category: OS Deployment, Tips and Tricks, Windows 7 | 3 Comments
Enable Integration features for Virtual PC Beta running server 2008
Running on Windows 7 it obvious you would use the new Windows Virtual PC Beta. There is a problem however, when you want to run a Server2008 virtual PC. The server it self runs great, and is much faster than Virtual PC2007, but like in Virtual server2005 Drag’n Drop is not supported. This Should basically [...]
Category: OS Deployment, Virtual PC, Windows 7 | 9 Comments
Try out Windows 7 without messing up your XP/VISTA installation
I just love Windows 7 RC… It runs much better than VISTA, and has lots of super nice features. (Get it here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ ) One of these features is the ability to boot from a VHD, which actually means that I can run Win7 on my laptop, without having to reinstall my existing OS, mess [...]
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Deploying Windows 7 with Configuration Manager 2007
Interested? Then make sure your tune into this webcast https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032412442&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US&flag=1 Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time.
Category: Windows 7 | 1 Comment
Fix none working DVD/CD drive in Vista and windows 7
When You upgrade a computer to Windows Vista or Windows 7 Beta, or install Windows Vista Service Pack, and after a restart, the computers CD/DVD drive no longer works as expected, or it says driver is not digitally signed, you will have to remove the affected filter drivers. To do this, follow these steps: Open [...]
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