You have been using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create, maintain and deploy your custom Microsoft Windows operating systems for some time now. You have multiple desktop images ranging ...

A Microsoftee will tell you that deploying Office 2007 is as simple as adding it to a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file. Theoretically, we don’t disagree, but practically, no way, no how. You’ll need ...

A Microsoftee will tell you that deploying Office 2007 is as simple as adding it to a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file. Theoretically, we don’t disagree, but practically, no way, no how. You’ll need ...

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Even though Windows 8 is just a few months away from formal release, most businesses — about 70 percent, in fact — are still running Windows XP. And while Windows 7 has been available for nearly two ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Many IT admins these days are looking to cut costs and save time, yet it seems like they face an ever-growing list of users to migrate or set up. If this sounds familiar, Prowess SmartDeploy ...

First it was Windows XP. Then we got Xcopy. Next, they changed Word files from .DOC to .DOCX. Now even our operating system imaging tool for Vista is ImageX. I'm seeing a pattern here. We'd better ...

I decided to update our WDS server to 2016 and use the new ADK that allows me to use build 1809. I downloaded the ISO from windows and found that instead of a .wim file there is a .esd file for ...

Administrators who have used either Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) or its predecessor, Business Desktop Deployment, know how easy it is to use these free tools to create a reference image of ...