23 July 2010

Resetting IP stack in Vista / Windows 2008

Recently, I had some strange problem with a network interface inside Windows 2008. I managed to solve my problem only by reset the whole network IP stack in Windows 2008 (Those steps work in Windows Vista and Windows 7 as well). Here are steps:

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15 July 2010

Windows 7 / 2008 SYSPREP ERROR

As many of you know, I'm doing a lot of projects related to system deployments. Sometimes it is servers, sometimes it's a workstations, sometimes it's both :).

Right now I've been working on a project where we are going to deploy Windows 2008 Servers in about 200 sites across Canada. As you can guess, this project also contains workstations and there are going to be Windows 7 Professional.

Since Microsoft released Windows Vista, the only supported way to "clone" windows systems become SYSPREP. Personally, I've been using sysprep since Windows NT 4, but there were other solutions that many professionals used to use.

So, as I said, I've been involved in a new deployment project :)...When we finished installing and customizing our Windows 7 system, I've executed a following command:

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