WDS: Add Driver Packages to Image wizard fails
When you attempt to add driver packages to a boot image using the Windows Deployment Service MMC which fails to complete or the process hangs, you’re left with a mounted version of your WIM...
Category: General
Windows cannot connect to the printer 0x0000007e
When faced with the above error while installing an HP printer to a workstation recently, I tried absolutely everything to resolve it. I removed drivers (in some cases I had to do this manually...
Tab completion or auto completion in Command Prompt
Should you find that Tab or auto completion isn’t working when you fire up a command prompt window. Check this KB article for information on how to re-enable it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244407/en-gb – Lewis
Quickly back up your Windows Server DHCP configuration
Something I used in a project recently (but I must tip my hat to a colleague who introduced me to it) is using net shell to back up your Windows Server DHCP configuration in...
Moving home
At the end of this week I’ll be moving home. I’m moving from West Yorkshire to Cheshire and will be starting a new job on 27th June. In August last year I decided to...
MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows 2008
Finally done it. Took me a little longer than expected but I decided to buy a house and I had to find another job nearer to my new home but I’ve done it. I...
Backup from a Volume Shadow Copy snapshot
Backing up a Volume Shadow Copy snapshot might not initially sound like something you’d need or even want to do but when all else has failed, what choice do you have? Let’s say you...
TIP: Stop users from adding their own computers to your Windows domain.
By default, when a Windows domain is created, users are granted the right to add up to ten workstations to the domain (in to the Computers container) without requiring any other privileges. Obviously this...
