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  • Centralized Desktop and Favorites with a Centralized My Documents?

    Centralized Desktop and Favorites with a Centralized My Documents?

    Posted on July 31, 2010 | No Comments
    What about Desktop and Favorites migration? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a GPO that made the migration of your user’s Desktop and Favorites as easy as the migration of their My Documents? I think it would be nice. Since there isn’t, I created...

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  • Lockdown a Centralized My Documents

    Lockdown a Centralized My Documents

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | 5 Comments
    Recently a coworker and I were tasked with migrating the My Documents folder of all users to a central server. The obvious comes to mind for migrating users data; data backup. However, the true reason we were migrating our users files was to simplify workstation...

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  • Deploying Applications with the Possibility of a Slow Connection (Robocopy)

    Deploying Applications with the Possibility of a Slow Connection (Robocopy)

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Regardless of which software deployment suite you use in your organization, there is no way to avoid transferring the majority of the installation files to the local machine, whether that is a file copy or a load into memory / temporary location. For small application...

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  • Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) Windows LiveCD

    Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) Windows LiveCD

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    As much as I love the old school Disk Operating System (DOS) environment, the benefits of working with DOS, even for firmware updating, is fading away. Who has a floppy drive any more? Well I do, I purchased one with my Dell laptop and even...

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  • Using Microsoft SteadyState as a Kiosk

    Using Microsoft SteadyState as a Kiosk

    Posted on November 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Making a publicly accessed computer safe can be a challenging project, especially if you are concerned about what web sites are allowed. Although there are quite a few methods for making a kiosk, such as pre-engineered hardware and software, there is always a cheaper method...

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  • Echo Without Carriage Return or Line Feed (CR LF)?

    Echo Without Carriage Return or Line Feed (CR LF)?

    Posted on October 25, 2009 | 8 Comments
    Recently, I wanted to make a terminal application automatically use the current signed-in Windows user name as the terminal session user name. When I first started on the task, I thought this will be easy; what acclaimed terminal program with heavily definable session settings is...

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  • Windows 7 Student Edition Bootable Installation DVD

    Windows 7 Student Edition Bootable Installation DVD

    Posted on October 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Although the student deal for Windows 7 is at an exceptional price when compared to purchasing it from other retailers, it seems to follow the “you get what you pay for” saying when it comes to creating a bootable DVD for installation. I am uncertain...

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  • "The requested operation requires elevation."

    "The requested operation requires elevation."

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    I am sure that someone could argue the security benefits for requiring additional steps to gain Administrator access that I thought I had already gained by signing in as an Administrator. Well, quite frankly, I hate these extra steps. In Windows Vista, if you open...

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  • VGA Resolution Identification and Windows

    VGA Resolution Identification and Windows

    Posted on September 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Have you ever wondered why some monitors/cables automatically have the correct video settings available in Windows and on occasion others do not? When was the last time you extended your VGA cable to a monitor or other output device with a 50 foot cable? Did...

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  • SteadyState and Screensavers

    SteadyState and Screensavers

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
    I had a requirement with a kiosk that required me to fade the screen 50% during any idle use. I had initially thought, great, this will be easy! However, SteadyState messes up your screensaver settings if you use the “Log off when idle (x) minutes”...

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