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Windows 8 Deployment Using MDT 2012: OS Install

In part two of this series, IT veteran Peter De Tender walks through the Windows 8 OS install using MDT 2012.

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V : Configuring a Virtual Switch

We continue our look at Windows 8 Client Hyper-V in part two of our series. In this installment, Jeff walks us through configuration of a virtual switch.

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V : Installation and Configuration

Hyper-V was developed to scratch the itch that Windows Virtual PC couldn’t satisfy. Jeff Hicks discusses using Windows 8 client Hyper-V in the first of a five-part series.

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Using ImageX for File-Based Image Deployments

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.

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Creating a Virtual Hard Disk Image from a Running OS with Disk2vhd

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…

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Image-based Installations with Windows Imaging Format

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.

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Getting Familiar with the Windows 7 Start Menu

This article looks at the Windows 7 Start Menu, some of the changes in the basic functions of it and how you can perform some customizations for personalization and ease of use.

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Securing Removable Storage Devices with BitLocker To Go in Windows 7

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.

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BitLocker To Go Walkthrough on Legacy Systems

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft and it is now set for a planned release in the final quarter of 2009 which would be just a bit shy of the three years since the release of Windows Vista. This segment of the article series is an overview of BitLocker…

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Walkthrough for BitLocker on Windows 7

Windows 7 is the next generation of operating system due from Microsoft and it is still set for a planned release for early 2010 which would be three years after the release of Windows Vista. This article is a walkthrough of the steps for enabling BitLocker on your Windows 7 system. [NOTES FROM THE FIELD]…

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