Month: June 2011

Last time around I posted on the issue of native VHD data integrity considerations. Native VHD is a very fast to deploy imaging solution. However because having your whole hard drive in a single file increases your vulnerability to disk corruption which could make it much more difficult to recover data in case of bad…

There are a couple of important considerations with the use of native VHD based imaging. These are particularly necessary to think about when you are creating an imaging system that is based around the native VHD boot capability Firstly, computer hibernation is not supported. Microsoft hasn’t particularly provided us with any reason why this is…

If you have a subscription to the Volume Licensing Service Center, you may have noticed a MAK key for Windows Thin PC lately. WTPC is the replacement for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and just as that was offered to NZ schools on the NZ MSA, it appears that WTPC will also be offered as…

With all of the experience I have amassed in Windows 7 imaging this year and with our experiences of different technologies it is becoming abundantly clear what works and what doesn’t, for the number of computers that we have. What doesn’t: MDT. Although this has a great deal of promise it is too complex for…

A couple of posts back I wrote about getting a native VHD down to a smaller size to use on a system with a smaller HDD than what it was originally built on. That time I just used standard defrag along with shrinking in Disk Management. This time around that wasn’t going to get the…