To sysprep or not to sysprep, why are we still having this conversation?
Going way back into the time machine, there were third-party utilities like GhostWalker (remember Ghost?) and NewSID (from Sysinternals) that could “prepare Windows for imaging.” Eventually, Microsoft said “you must use Sysprep, as that’s the only supported way to prepare an OS for duplication.” That should be the end of the story right? Not quite.…
Windows Installer: Almost a trick question…
You’ve all probably seen a dialog like this when using a Windows Installer MSI to upgrade an existing product: OK, files are in use. And you’ve probably also seen messages where Windows Installer then says that it was unable to close the applications. But what do you think would happen if you saw this dialog,…
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