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  • Free alternative to Partition Magic

    GParted is a Linux-based alternative to the commercial disk partitioning softwares out there. It works extremely well, works with NTFS partitions, and is generally very cool. And free. Its a must-have in the geek toolbox. Technorati Tags: gparted , linux
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 06-06-2006
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • Security Now! Discussion of Wireless Security

    I was unaware that Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson have a security podcast. Well, they do. This week they discuss WPA and best practices for wireless security. Its a pretty informative discussion if you want to get a little more serious about wireless security at your house. Security Now! Transcript of...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 11-15-2005
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows, Apple and MacOS
  • Windows 2000 SP4 UR1: Office apps can not save documents to floppy disks

    I had an interesting problem with an Update Rollup 1 machine today. After the update had been applied, the user could not save documents from any Office 2000 application to a floppy disk. Unpublished article 904368 addresses this issue. If you are experiencing this issue, you can contact Microsoft support...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 07-26-2005
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • Mailbox limits and Outlook performance

    The Exchange team posted an article ( here ) that details some guidelines for determining mailbox size limits. Essentially, the idea is that the number of items in the basic folders will affect Outlook performance the most, so don't clog them up. I've been installing some software for some of our mobile...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 03-14-2005
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • MSH (Monad) scripting primer

    Arul Kumaravel has posted an MSH scripting primer. MSH is the next generation/replacement of DOS that will be included in Longhorn, at least until Microsoft cuts it. Start learning now so what you already know can be rendered obsolete. :) The primer is here .
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 03-04-2005
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • Access denied installing Windows XP SP2

    I ran into an interesting problem yesterday installing Windows XP SP2 on a laptop running SP1. The user was an admin, but the install failed with an 'access denied' error in the system event log. %windir%\setupapi.log shows what generates errors in setup. In this case, administrators had read-only access...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 03-04-2005
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

    The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Using...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 02-28-2008
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows
  • MMS 2008: Building the Perfect Master Image

    Presented by Johan Arwidmark. This session was very lite-touch deploy focused. The previous content from the Advanced OS Deployment sessions might be of more value to you. No technical reason for having separate server and client tools Imaging considerations Hardware - 32-bit and 64-bit, Intel and AMD...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 05-02-2008
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows, MMS 2008
  • MMS 2008: Introduction to Group Policy Prefrences

    Presented by Jason Leznek and Lilia Gutnik. Props to Lilia for mentioning XKCD . She seems almost as sarcastic as the comic. Not that I know anything about sarcasm. What are group policy preferences? Acquired Desktop Standard in Oct 2006 GPOVault - Advanced Group Policy Management - MDOP PolicyMaker...
    Posted to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com (Weblog) by jhinkle on 05-02-2008
    Filed under: Deployment, Windows, MMS 2008
  • Suppress Plug and Play UI

    Microsoft just released a new hotfix that allows you to suppress the plug and play UI in Windows XP and Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938596 . I haven’t played with it yet, but it sounds like it has potential when deploying new systems using ConfigMgr or MDT. Sometimes, there’s that one...
    Posted to I Have a Blog, And I Must Scream (Weblog) by jsandys on 01-08-2009
    Filed under: Windows, Deployment
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