Last few months I’ve been faced with installing a 2008 R2 server with MDT 2010 several times. Sure, I’m fully aware of the Hydration Kits out there which are awesome… so this is still pretty basic stuff. Anyway, it was pretty boring to look up my notes every time so I decided to write it down here so I could do it as fast as possible, and also to show colleagues how to get started with MDT easily. I’m sure [...]
Archive for August, 2011
I get this question a lot so I decided to write down everything I know about when Group Policies are updated when in use. The short answer: GPOs are, by default, refreshed every 90 minutes plus a random period of 0-30 minutes – but only if the GPO has changed. However, settings under Security Settings (like File System) is only refreshed every 16 hours even though the GPO hasn’t changed. More details: You can also control the GPO refresh interval [...]
Categories: Windows
Doug Gabbard at Microsoft has some excellent tips and tricks when you’re building up your Windows Active Directory lab here. There are bunch of detailed instructions in there so make sure to read it, but I found the general DO NOTS very useful, quoted below: DO NOTS DO NOT create a snapshot of domain controller and place in an isolated network – someone will UN isolated the lab one day and your mileage will vary WHEN (not if) that happens. [...]
