disk management

Discover how to use PowerShell to delete files and folders in this Ask an Admin. Find out how to remove all MP3 files, filter, take out .txt files and more.

This guide will show you how to deploy an Azure virtual machine as a domain controller (DC).

Initialize and format a disk using Disk Management.

In this Ask an Admin, learn to get back those disk performance counters in Windows Server 2012 R2 Task Manager.

System Center 2012 SP1 – Orchestrator can be the IT assistant you never had. Learn about Orchestrator’s disk maintenance capabilities and how to use it!

ImageX is a command-line tool that can be used to capture, modify, and apply file-based disk images for deployment of systems in an enterprise by leveraging the Windows Imaging format (.wim files). Learn how you can leverage it for your imaging and deployment needs in this article by Jason Zandri.

Disk2vhd is tool from Microsoft’s Sysinternals group that allows system administrators to create virtual hard disk images (VHD) of running operating systems loaded on physical hardware. VHDs are the Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format used in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). Disk2vhd Overview There are other physical-to-virtual tools that are available…

This article details the Windows Imaging file format (WIM), the benefits of leveraging it for deploying Windows installs, and reviews the tool (WIMGAPI) that developers use to mange existing WIM files.

Jason Zandri provides a ‘from the field’ overview of the features and requirements of BitLocker To Go and its abilities to control how removable storage devices are secured.