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Using Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers and getting “Access denied”: ensure the printer’s security permissions include Full control for the System user. Using Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers to Windows 7 / Vista computers and getting event ID 4098 with message “The RPC server is unavailable”: on the properties of each printer item…

What should this blog be about? I’ve decided it will just present technical info / tips / notes in abbreviated format – quicker to write – NO POLITICS OR COMMENTARY ANY MORE – can’t be bothered. Who needs Facebook etc or iPhones or iPads. Why do we need all this technological development. Where is it…

Following our prototype deployment of Windows 7, we now have five laptops in regular use with this OS, along with Office 2010, with few if any significant problems showing up. This includes switching one existing laptop running Vista to Windows 7. Office 2010 has a lot of improvements, especially in Outlook which has adopted the…

This has been a big project for us, starting from scratch to get a Windows 7 image built for our particular uses. At times it has been kind of overwhelming. I wrote before that monolithic is out and componentised is in. However the simple fact is that no single solution will suit all requirements. After…

Today we moved along to our first major deployment project using Windows 7 and MDT. We have several new laptops and have decided that they should be upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. In practice this means a clean installation of Windows 7 plus applications. Right here it is best to have a look…