So Windows 7 beta is out the door and you are ready to begin your beta experience.  Over the next few months there will be additional builds for Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 and that leads to a lot of installs and a lot of DVD burning and useless DVDs as soon as a new build is out.  So why not install from ...

Typically hotfixes are released on the second Tuesday of each month as you are all well aware.  Occasionally, I can personally only remember three including this one, there are out of band hotfixes released.  While we don’t normally post hotfix release notifications considering this is an out of band release I wanted to let you all know ...

The other day I posted the first half of this video with the server side setup of NAP.  This video will cover the client side setup and testing on both Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3. Note: Double-click on the video to go full screen. If you want to give these demos a try yourself be sure to grab the lab build guide and demo scripts ...

Quick post to let all you Lazy Admins out there that Windows Search 4.0 has been released. There is a long list improvements. I have been using the preview release for the past month, and I definitly have noticed performance benefits on my laptop. For those who haven't tried Windows Search, it's a Lazy Admin's best friend. The only downside is the ...

We have all muttered the words ''Where is <fill in the blank> when you need it?''  A lot of times that blank is filled with the name of a SysInternals utility like Process Explorer or TCPView.  Well never utter those words again thanks to http://live.sysinternals.com :)  Here you will find a list of all the SysInternals tools ...

With the recent launch of Windows Server 2008 you are no doubt spending all your free time playing around with everything new.  One thing you might be playing around with is Network Access Protection.  There is a great document on getting a DHCP based NAP lab set up but one thing the document is missing is how to configure the NAP client ...

You have probably heard this bit of news already but in case you haven't we thought we'd share it with you.  Vista SP1 and Server 2008 were both released to manufacturing today and will become available in the near future.  That is unless you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription in which case you can start downloading now ...

Ever wanted to backup your ACLs for every file in a folder? With Windows Vista, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 a new tool has been released called ICACLS. To backup the ACLs of every file in a directory type: icacls * /save aclfile.txt This command saves the ACLs of all the files in the directory to a file called ...

Deploying BDD is a big project. One of the first elements, and a huge time saver, is installing WDS. This tool allows us to stream down a copy of Windows PE 2.0 to your clients so that you can launch the installation process in a 32 or 64 bit environment. This allows for much faster network transfer as PXE is 16 bit, and not really well ...

Windows 2000, XP and 2003 provide a feature called Dynamic Disks. A dynamic disk can contain simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes. When using dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without the need to restart the computer. Once the change has been made to Dynamic Disks, they ...

Sysprep is a great tool, to create an image that can be pushed out to client machines. With Sysprep, you can install the OS and any applications, create the Sysprep image and then push it to other client or server machines. Within minutes you can have the other systems up and running with all the require applications, service packs and hotfixes ...

Have you ever been working in the command line and want to send the output of a command to another document? Well we can right-click the command window and select Mark and then copy and paste into the document, or add > c:\info.txt to the end of the command line and get the info from the text file, but there is a better way! Windows Server 2003 ...

Many remote users connect to the corporate network using a VPN connection. Typcially they login to the local machine and then launch the VPN connection. However, it is possible to initiate the conenction before logging in allowing the user to be authenticated via Active Directory. When logging on there is a check box available that will allow you ...

Debugging STOP errors is not for the faint of heart, or at least that is the impression most people have. In fact, it is not to difficult determine the cause with a little time, and a few free tools. Thelazyadmin.com Forum member WrldBFree, has written an excellent introduction to basic debugging using WinDBG. Often times, your computer will ...

The dreaded Stop Error, affectionatley known as the Blue Screen Of Death, or BSOD, causes nightmares for most PC users. Stop Errors usually mean something major is wrong and troubleshooting them is never enjoyable. This list of the top Stop Errors and the usual cause will get you going in the right direction. STOP_0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_EQUAL ...