I’ve got myself a copy of the book: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook. In this book there is a lot and I mean really a lot nerdy stuff about the new Hyper-V role in Server 2012. It tells you, in depth, how to install/configure and maintenance a complete Hyper-V environment.

Every chapter is dived into:

• Introduction about the chapter;
• Getting Ready;
• How to do it;
• How it works.

Where possible the are some extra’s like:

• PowerShell or other scripts;
• Best practices;
• Tips and Tricks.

The book covers everything a Hyper-V nerd needs to know

Click on the logo to go directly to the book.

In this blog post I’m trying to explain how-to create a mandatory profile for Server 2012 and Windows 8. This is only for a clean windows installation. The Microsoft best practices are saying that you need to update the Mandatory profile after each software installation/update on the system.

The Test User

First we create a user named: Manny. This user is used to create the profile. You can name it any way you want. Don’t give it any profile. You can create a local user, but my test machine is also a domain controller, so I only can create an AD user.

In my Holiday (At the moment) I’m spending some time reading the book: Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide. Normally I browse through the book and read the chapters that I like. This time was the same, but I noticed that I was reading chapter after chapter. Never had that before So I could say that this new App-V book is really "Boeiend" Like we dutchies say These are the chapters that are covered: http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-application-virtualization-advanced-guide/book#author

As you can see everything is covered and really really deep technical. Just the way we like it. So if you are an App-V dude, don’t hasitate and buy.

I’m not done reading at the moment But I will finish it soon. And keep it in a save place as reference.

Oke here’s my problem. When I’m writing installation documents I’m always adding screenshots. This screenshots are taken by Screenhunter or Snagit and then pasted into my word document.

In the word document I have a table and the screenshot is pasted in the table. Like this example.

Now when inserting this image from the clipboard the image isn’t auto resized to fit the cell. So It looks like this:

Then I have to change te image to fit the cell.

BUT. When I paste the image into MSPAINT and then: Select All, Copy and Paste into the Cell the autoresize works. What’s the differences? And howto paste images directly from Screenhunter or Snagit into the cell and auto size them????

Here’s a little blog post about the Bags and BagMru registry tree.

Windows XP:

When you configure this setting in Windows XP:

When there is a one OSD for all type’s of computers in the network and you want specific software deployed only on laptops, here is the howto

What’s the differences between a laptop and a desktop? Correct, the battery. So the simplest way to achieve our goal is to check if there is a battery present in the system.

Open the OSD Task Sequence and add the required step.

In this blogpost I will describe how to reduce the WinSxS folder in the Windows folder after installing SP1. All superseded files are removed. And you cannot uninstall SP1 anymore. To know what the WinSxS folder is, read this blogpost of Joseph Conway.

First off all, how big is my WinSxS folder? Right click on it says around 9GB.

But it contains hardlinks, so how big is it for real?? Download ctTrueSize. Run: ctts C:\Windows\WinSxS

9,35GB – 1,04GB = 8,30GB

In my previous post I enabled BitLocker on both my partitions (Link). The trick now is to reinstall Windows without decrypting the system. In this example my data is stored on the second partition (Data Partition or D:) and that partition is encrypted and must be preserved.

When booted from media. The installer is asking on which partition it will install Windows. Because BitLocker has encrypted the old system partition, we aren’t able to format the partition. Just delete the partition, recreate it, format and install Windows. (Do not touch the data partition). If you want to preserve the data on the old system partition, you have to recover that partition. (Hmmm new post will come in the future )