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  • Create the BypassTPMCheck DWORD entry

    Install Windows 11 without TPM Registry Hack

    With the release of Windows 11 to the masses as the GA release has landed, many are attempting to perform upgrades and clean installs of Windows 11 GA. However, if you are like me, you ran into issues with the…

  • This PC cant run Windows 11

    This PC can’t run Windows 11 in VMware Workstation

    Well, are you all excited to run Windows 11 now that it is released a day early? Your excitement may be quickly stifled by an error message that you may receive – This PC can’t run Windows 11. After I…

  • Deploy Windows 11 with MDT

    Deploy Windows 11 with MDT Download

    In the lab environment, I have been playing around with Windows 11 deployments and have started updating a few methods I use in the lab to deploy images of Windows 11. These tools include Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). As a…

  • Is Hyper V Server released for download

    Is Hyper-V Server 2022 Released for Download?

    If you are like me, after the official release of Windows Server 2022, you may have been wondering about the story on Hyper-V Server 2022. Where is it? Why haven’t we really heard anything about it? Is Hyper-V Server 2022…

  • Windows Deployment Services PXE Boot Configuration

    Windows Deployment Services PXE Boot Configuration

    Most organizations have the need to have an automated way to deploy Windows images to clients. Instead of walking around with a USB key that clients must be booted from, using Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) is a great way to…

  • Uncheck the automatic metric checkbox

    Windows 10 Network Adapter Order Configuration

    You may be in a position where you have multiple network adapters assigned to your Windows 10 workstation. You may need to connect to multiple physical network segments via Layer 2 instead of having your traffic routed. Things get tricky…

  • Adding a new VMswitch and network adapter using the Hyper V PowerShell cmdlets

    VLAN Tagging Software for Windows 10 without Proset drivers

    If you are like me, you may interact with multiple network segments and VLANS configured for different purposes. However, what if you have a workstation that is not configured with an Intel ProSet card with enterprise software that allows tagging…

  • New windows 11 startup logo

    Windows 11 Install in VMware vSphere

    So as most of you have heard the rumblings over the past few days, Microsoft has now officially announced Windows 11 at the special Windows event that happened today. There really was no speculation leading up to the event with…

  • Interacting with a running container in wsl 2 via docker desktop

    Install Docker on Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL 2 Windows 10

    Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a great tool to have access to all your NIX tools and even run more Linux native solutions on the Windows platform. WSL 2 is the updated version of WSL with more features and…

  • Winget 1.0 upgrade command showing all available upgrades

    Install Winget 1.0 Windows 10 and upgrade all software

    Have you found yourself spending lots of time trying to keep your software on a management workstation up-to-date? If you are like me, you probably use a myriad of tools, software, utilities, tools, and many other things in your management…