Here’s a little tip from a colleague of mine, who we’ll call Geoff for no reason other than that that is his name. When deploying images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS), sometimes the WDS server seemingly does not respond for about 10-15 seconds, even if the response delay is set to 0 seconds...
I don’t mean to say that TechNet and MSDN are bad – quite the opposite in fact. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a huge repository of documentation. But what always appears to be missing is the “overview” or “tie it all together” document, required so that the student knows what he doesn’t know...
We had the strangest experience attempting to upgrade a customer's RIS server from Windows 2003 SP1 to SP2 this week. This upgrade is supposed to be simple, straightforward ... and non-breaking. How little we knew! Instead of the simple procedure that usually accompanies a Windows Service Pack, ...