If you are seeing your Windows Deployment Services WDS operating system installs stall on the WINDOWS IS LOADING FILES screen and then errors out with: Windows Failed To Start … Status 0xc0000001 Required Device Isn’t Connected or Can’t Be Accessed then have we got a fix for you! To get […]
If you are using new (or different) hardware from what you built your Windows image on, you may see: WdsClient: An Error Occured While Obtaining IP Address From the DHCP Server. Fortunately, you can ignore most of the other solutions floating around the internet telling you to manually inject the drivers into […]
OCT 1 2018 UPDATE: See our 2018 updated version of this article HERE. You could inject drivers directly into your image .WIM files as I have previously explained: Vista: how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-2-0-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-vista-image Windows 7 & 8 how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-3-0-wim-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-7-or-2008-r2-image oooorrrrr you can now just add drivers directly to your Windows Deployment (WDS) Server: Open […]
Have you ever wondered how Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and others started developing new products/services at an almost exponential rate starting in the 2010’s? Well wonder no more . These companies all adopted new operating and development frameworks that has given them dramatic results: Image Source: Microsoft Before ITIL (Information […]
In this video we explain and demonstrate how to migrate Active Directory from Server 2012 to Server 2022, move the FSMO roles and upgrade the Domain and Forest Functional Levels. Note that over the years we have done many in-place upgrades to Domain Controllers at smaller customers but it is […]
The rapid development of technology means that human labor is increasingly being performed by machines. Will AI be able to fully replace the teacher and the translator? We will find out in this article.
If you try to install 32 bit Windows on a Hyper V server you may find that it just will not see the installation files. I tried from: Windows 10 32Bit Enterprise ISO downloaded from Microsoft VLSC Windows 10 32Bit Pro ISO downloaded using the current Windows 10 Media Creation […]
We are constantly telling our customers that traditional anti-virus programs that rely mostly on ‘signatures’ from previous attacks will no longer keep a company safe. Attackers are now sophisticated, well funded and often government controlled. This means they rely less on exploiting known security holes and more on developing those […]
The world of marketing has seen some incredible changes in the last two decades. Now the use of visual content is essential if you want to stand out from the crowds, and the need to find good places for visual content is huge. One of this place is Depositphotos where […]
If you surf to a website that is used for phishing or has malware on it, you should report it. The question is where to report bad sites? Below is a list of websites you can very easily report bad / phishing / malicious web pages. They are listed in […]
The short version is that if your host server is running Datacenter you can NOT upgrade an existing Windows Server 2016/2019 STANDARD Virtual Machine to anything but Datacenter. If you try you will see that Windows Server STANDARD is missing and not an option from the list. The way it […]
If you see a SYSTEM ERROR popup dialog box when running a Pulse Secure VPN from a Browser you may have a permissions issue that is easy to fix. In my case I went through all of the usual trouble shooting steps: Reset the browser to factory Try IE and […]
If you are responsible for your corporate image and you are deploying Windows 10 you are likely going to want to set the default browser to Internet Explorer rather than Edge. The problem is there is no GPO or Answer File setting to make this change. After working with Microsoft […]
Windows 10 and 8 use a substantially different process to create images than what I had used in Windows XP and 7. Fortunately it is not rocket science. The four big differences are: So lets get to it. Simple Step By Step Instructions to Build A Windows 10 Customized Image: Thanks to […]
Secure boot is a firmware standard that has EFI BIOS’s check the boot loader to ensure it is authentic. Guess what is not supported in Secure Boot… ANYTHING before Windows 8. Soooo, if you are trying to load Windows 7 (in my case from PXE and WDS) onto a PC […]
Well, that phrasing is just wrong. In fact TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is replaced by WSD (Web Services For Devices) but IP is used in either case AND WSD is not a PORT it is a control mechanism. Sooo, it would be more accurate to ask WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE […]