As we jump head long into a new year of exciting advances for App-V I have been taking some time to reflect on the activities in the past year. I have spent much of the past year working with customers who are starting out with App-V for the first time. Read More...

We’re going a little more into turning a script into a module.  And again, don’t scare yourself off!  They are easy to deal with!  So here today,  I’ll go the other way around.   I’m going to take a simple script with a few Read More...

A very good friend I’ve been in contact with on Twitter who is a die hard Mac/Linux guy that works in Windows sent me a message. “Need a vBscript to Query Active Directory for old accounts and disable them” At which point I immediately pointed out “Powershell” Read More...

I was chatting with Brian Bourne from CMS Consulting in Toronto about some Hyper-V R2 work that they have done recently.  In the conversation Brian shared a ton of learning's from the field on some of the Hyper-V R2 upgrades, deployments and V2V/P2V Read More...

Exchange 2010 has been released and available for a few weeks now and a lot of people are looking to deploy.  I was chatting with Rick Shire, Senior Messaging Consultant at CMS Consulting , who has compiled a list of gotchas, things to look out for, Read More...

One of the features that we talked about a few months ago during the Beta and RC of Windows 7 was the new federated search features . It came to our attention that the TLA federated search OSDX file was not compatible with Windows 7 RTM. So our first Read More...

Window 7 RC has been out for a few weeks now the TLA team has been busy learning and testing all the great new features. Your tip for today is on Windows 7 App Locker. Many of you know about Software Restriction Policies. They allow you to block the execution Read More...

Oh boy is this a feature designed for lazy admins. When I’m not writing and keeping the site up to date I’m usually onsite working for clients. Often I’m required to have multiple emails accounts active when working with various partners. Now this isn’t Read More...

In a previous entry, guest blogger Sean Kearney shared a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 directory services called the Active Directory Recycle Bin .  Sean is back to show us how to recover those deleted objects. ------------------------- So Read More...

A lot of people are making the switch from Virtual Server to Hyper-V lately.  I’ve done it on my home network and Thelazyadmin.com servers are in progress of moving to Hyper-V as well.  While you can simply copy over the VHD and create a new Read More...