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You Have Been Logged On with a Temporary Profile
We have covered some of the misery that happens with roaming profiles in a previous post. Roaming profiles seem to at best only work “some” of the time and can cause a lot of issues with other programs as well…
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Moving User Profiles to a new server
If you administer an environment that utilizes server stored profiles or roaming profiles, you probably already know what a nightmare these can be to manage. Many have run into problems also in trying to relocate roaming profiles to a different…
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Running multiple SSL IIS sites IIS7 and 7.5
Starting with IIS 7, Microsoft made major changes to IIS. The look and feel of the entire interface is way different than what administrators were used to with IIS6. All in all most of the changes have been a good…
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Remote Desktop Connection Manager – Great tool for Administrators
As IT Admins, we are always looking for ways that we can save time and effort in completing our tasks and making the most efficient use of our time and resources. Connecting to servers using remote desktop is just one…
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Windows Imaging Checklist
We all use and love (may be a bit presumptuous here) imaging workstations. After all it saves us as system administrators countless hours of time, or at least we hope so. However, as with any good technology, without proper planning,…
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Logging off remote desktop kills user processes
A mistake that is commonly made by Jr. admins is logging off a remote desktop session to a server after initiating a user driven process or program. In seeing this mistake made countless times by admins who just haven’t had…
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Set Default Printer Based on Location
If you are an administrator and you are looking for an easy way to set the default printer based on the location a user logs on, this is possible with a login script and a simple registry file to be…
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End to End .Wim Image Deployment with WDS
We want to take a look at the end to end creation of a .wim image and the deployment of this image via Windows Deployment Services. This will require several key components to be in place for your environment. Microsoft…
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Windows 2008 R2 access denied adding TCP/IP printer
I ran into a pesky add printer access denied error message recently with a server that had been upgraded from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2. In attempting to add a printer to the printer management console via the TCP/IP…
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Windows 8 Release date set
With Windows 7 being a huge success for Microsoft compared to Vista, the next iteration of Windows being Windows 8, the release of the next OS is highly anticipated. There were several stories that surfaced on the Internet a few…