Best practices has your desktop deployment not installing Windows via the setup.exe each and every time, but rather deploying a captured Windows image and building off of that. You choice of a thin or fat image is […]

"I don't understand the
CustomSettings.ini file."  I hear this from a
high percentage of clients who use MDT in their environment. If
they started with an MDT-only deployment position, I will often see
a rules […]

A baker doesn’t have the same job as an accountant who doesn’t have the same job as a painter: different tools, different working environment, different products. Whereas you wouldn’t dream of developing a […]

I’ve deployed corporate desktops since Windows 95 and I can’t recall a single client that wanted us to build desktops with the default Microsoft-provided images.  As Microsoft released new versions of Windows, […]

I've always thought of the Active Directory (AD DS) as a box of Legos: give any two kids an identical set and they will come up with something completely different.  Good from a design and flexibility […]

Often in desktop deployment, many environmental conditions are assumed and taken for granted.  This can result in a great deal of head scratching when those elements are suddenly taken away.  One of the biggest […]