Auditing access to removable storage devices

The use of removable storage devices is usually not allowed in organizations, you should not at least be able to connect a USB flash drive or removable hard drives. But it is true that in exceptions, They are needed, and for this purpose a GPO is usually defined with a whitelist of allowed USB devices and applied to the users/computers that need them. But ,How do you use them??

VMware Mirage – Part 4 – Creating a Windows image 7 bootable

GOOD, como hemos visto hasta ahora, VMware Mirage se aplica siempre sobre equipos con un S.O. previamente instalado. Pero tendremos una utilidad parametrizada que nos permitirá crear un pendrive USB con un Windows 7 ya listo con el cliente de Mirage preconfigurado, esto será de suma utilidad cuando tengamos que provisionar equipos para usuarios nuevos, o que hayan perdido/robado su equipo, etc…

Booting HP Firmware Maintenance or HP SmartStart CDs with a USB flash drive

I've been wanting to post this post for a long time, something simple like the previous one but many times we find ourselves (for savings issues) HP servers without CD drive, so before installing the operating system we need to update the firmware of all the components of the server with the HP Firmware Maintenance CD and later with the HP SmartStart CD prepare the boot, install HP utilities and drivers on the machine itself. In the case of not having a server with a CD drive, we can with an HP utility dump them into an external USB drive or a pen drive.