You’ve seen it, I’ve seen it, and even our end users have seen it. That wonderful and informative message that causes our application to throw its hands in the air, and then pout in a corner when we try to open a locked document. What’s a user to do? While this error [...]
In this fast paced world of IT we often take things for granted. While none of us operate in a truly perfect OS world, some give us utilities that have saved our bacon on numerous occasions, or allowed us to recover those lost items that are so dear to us. dd, jokingly referred to [...]
One of the nice little utilities that Microsoft has created for us is the User State Migration Tool. USMT allows administrators to capture the data from end users machines and store the data on a file share on the network (alternatively it can be stored on a locally attached drive) the data can then be [...]
Gone are the days of endless hours swapping physical media in and out of computers to install first that shiny new Windows Operating System, then all of your needed applications, as well as customizing the Operating System to your liking, applying patches and finally assigning a name to the machine and joining to the domain. [...]