This article gives an overview of the most important Windows 7 Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) tools: WSIM, ImageX,...
Microsoft’s free Windows 7 deployment tools – Part 1: Planning and compatibility
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This article gives an overview of Microsoft's free Windows 7 deployment tools Windows Optimized Desktop Solution Accelerator, Microsoft Assessment...
Update: You can also use the free tool SafeMSI for installing in Safe Mode. I've never really understood why...
In my last post I reviewed Admin Arsenal's inventory and monitoring features. Today I will show you how you...
Admin Arsenal – hardware and software inventory, monitoring, and performance counters
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In my last article I introduced Admin Arsenal, Brisworks' system management tool for small and mid-sized businesses. Today I...
Win a free license for Admin Arsenal 1.4, an easy-to-use systems management tool
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Admin Arsenal is an affordable systems management and monitoring solution for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Its publisher, Brisworks,...
This is the fourth post in my series about application virtualization. One of the products I listed in my...
This post is the first in a series in which I will explore the advantages, the disadvantages, and the...
I wonder how many different names this tool kit already had. Just some months ago, Microsoft renamed Business Desktop...
Microsoft just released a new version of their IE7 deployment paper. The document has 156 pages. So you can...
Microsoft published the Internet Explorer 7 Deployment Guide, a 67 page Word document, discussing how to plan and carry...
User Account Control (UAC), the SMS 2003 OSD Feature Pack and other Vista traps
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Before I was just upset by these concentration destroying UAC pop-ups. When I played these past days with the...
TrackWinstall: track installations of Windows programs
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TrackWinstall is a free tool that informs you about the changes a setup program made to your Windows installation....
FLEXnet AdminStudio is a MSI packaging solution from Macrovision (formerly InstallShield). There is a Standard, Professional, and an Enterprise...
MSI (Microsoft Installer) is, meanwhile, the de-facto standard for installing Windows programs. It is advisable to only use this...
No more HAL-hell, the implications of Windows Vista’s hardware independent imaging technology
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According to Microsoft, you can apply a Windows Vista image to PCs with different Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). You...
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is the successor of Remote Installation Services (RIS), and can be used to deploy Windows...
If you use an imaging tool to deploy Windows, you probably know Microsoft's free SysPrep tool which is part...
