Adventures with Sysprep on Windows Vista
Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | No Comments »I've just spent the last 3 days working with sysprep and the Windows System Image Manager which comes as part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) trying to get our unattend.xml file just right for deployment. After several tries, ...
Install McAfee EPO On Windows Vista Without Disabling UAC
Friday, April 13th, 2007 Posted in Technology, Windows Vista | 2 Comments »It took some time and thinking, but I've finally discovered how to install McAfee EPO without having to disable User Account Control. Here's the theory behind the solution: UAC effects all standard user and administrator accounts in Vista. The local ...
Create a Vista WIM Image Using ImageX
Thursday, April 12th, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | 3 Comments »In order to take an image of a Windows Vista computer, you'll first need to create a Windows PE boot disk with Imagex on it. After installing Vista and making the desired changes, you will need to run sysprep to ...
Reset Vista’s Licensing Timer For Another 30 Days
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | 4 Comments »If you've installed Vista and haven't entered an activation key, you have 30 days before Windows enters reduced functionality mode. You may do this because you just want to evaluate Vista before buying, or in our case, running a few ...
Create a WinPE Boot Disk for Imaging & Repair
Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | 4 Comments »To create and deploy images of Windows Vista without any 3rd party tools like Symantec Ghost, you'll need a bootable WinPE CD. Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a powerful yet small version of windows that will boot from a CD ...
Installing McAfee EPO on Windows Vista
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | 5 Comments »At work we're currently working on deployment and support plans for Windows Vista. One of the biggest stumbling blocks we've had is installing McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (EPO) on Vista. It turns out that it is possible, but it's not elegant ...
How to enable or disable UAC in Windows Vista
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Windows Vista | 3 Comments »User account control (UAC) is a new security model utilized by Microsoft in Windows Vista. In earlier versions of Windows, a user with administrative privileges always had the privilege to do anything they wanted to the computer at any time. The ...