In this article, we will show you how to add the necessary device drivers directly into the Windows installation image. The integration of the device drivers into your offline Windows image is widely used when you need to deploy a large number of workstations and servers on the same hardware. Instead of manually installing specific drivers (including AHCI/ RAID/ NVMe) on each devices, you can significantly simplify and accelerate OS deployment process by integrating the drivers directly into the Driver Store of the Windows installation image in the ISO/WIM or the VHD/VHDX file. When installing such an image, the Plug and Play service (PnP) will automatically install the necessary drivers for the detected hardware.
- Windows 10Windows 8Windows Server 2012 R2
Managing Printers from the Command Prompt in Windows 10 / 8.1
January 14, 2019Today we’ll talk about opportunities of managing printers and their drivers from the command prompt in Windows 10/ 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2/ 2016. We will consider how to…
UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of user and computer accounts in Active Directory. This attribute determines the status of the account in the AD domain: whether the account…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Enable Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on Windows Server
January 8, 2019Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows on a network shared folder to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have NTFS permissions (Read or List) to access them. Thus you…
Let’s look at how to create a simple administrator notification system when someone adds a new user to the important Active Directory security group. For example you want to track…
- Windows 10Windows 8
Using the BitLocker Repair Tool to Recover Data on Encrypted Drive
December 13, 2018Today we’ll describe how to recover data from a damaged or inaccessible hard drive encrypted using BitLocker. We will show you a simple case and a case with a damaged…
- Windows 10
Error 0x80073CFA: Can’t Uninstall Apps using Remove-AppxPackage in Windows 10
December 12, 2018Starting from Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update), several new built-in universal apps appeared in the system and you cannot remove them using the standard procedure. For example, when you try…
In PowerShell 3.0 you can directly access and parse HTML web pages on the Internet. To do it, a special Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet was introduced. This cmdlet allows you to implement…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Licensing Mode for Remote Desktop Session Host is not Configured
December 7, 2018When trying to configure a new host in the RDS farm running Windows Server 2012 R2, I encountered the following warning popup message in the system tray:
Hi, admin! In one of my PowerShell scripts, I needed to determine the current external IP address of the Windows computer from the command line or (best) with some simple…