Monthly Archives: August 2011
Boot From VHD: Change the target VHD
There is a whole tutorial that could be written about booting from a VHD in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. This is not that tutorial, and I am probably not the one to write it. But I did want to make a note of this because I know that I’ll forget it the next time I need it. To change the VHD that you’re booting from, you just have to make a couple of changes to the BCD. Boot from a Windows PE disc or a Windows 7 disc in System Recovery, and get to a command prompt. Then
Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy preferences is something new in Windows Server 2008. It used to be that adding group policies for things like mapped drives, printers, and Control Panel settings was a pain, and you had to drill down several nested layers all over the place to change anything. But with Group Policy preferences, all these common settings are now lumped together in one place, easy to change. It’s a really handy way to easily do what used to be a lot harder. The problem is, these settings only get applied in Windows 7. Anything older, even Vista, will just ignore them
