Windows 7 adds a great new security feature called UAC. There are certain situations where you have to disable UAC which you can do by following the below steps.
1. Open control panel by going to the start menu -> Control Panel
2. From the control panel select User Accounts And Family Safety
3. Select User Accounts
4. Select Change User Account Control Settings
5. Move slider bar to the bottom so it is at never notify. Then click OK.
Over at coldeplex there is another great project that I wanted to let you know about. The project is called image resizer and is clone of the old Image Resizer XP Powertoy. The tool was created by Brice Lambson to support new operating systems and also 64 bit operating systems. The tool lets you quickly resize your pictures by just right clicking the picture and select resize picture. You then have the option of creating a small, medium, large, or mobile device size. This tool is one of the must haves when I install a new operating system.
Image Resizer Codeplex Project Page
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/
Image Resizer Screenshots
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is Microsoft’s preferred method for deploying both client and server operating systems. The latest release of MDT occurred September of 2009. The new release was a huge improvement over the previous version. The current version also supports the deployment of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
I have been working with the product now for a few months with deploying Server 2008 R2. I have also deployed a few Windows 7 clients using it. I have been really impressed so far how easy it is to deploy a server image. I also know that I am using just a fraction of this tool and look forward to learning more about it over the next several months. I will try to share my experiences so other people can learn from my trial and error. I have included some links below that are some good resources if you are just learning about this great tool. The next few posts will cover the installation of MDT 2010 and AIK.
MDT 2010 TechNet Site
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx
MDT Team Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/msdeployment/default.aspx
MDT TechNet Forums
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/mdt/threads
Michael Niehaus Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/default.aspx
Deployment Guys
http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/default.aspx
