Uninstalling apps remotely and in bulk

Many times we find ourselves with the need to uninstall certain software that we have installed on our workstations, via WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) We can uninstall the software we need on the computers we need, a platform that is not widely used by 'us'’ Administrators. Thanks to the command line parameters we can use variables and/or files with lists of equipment to automate these tasks,

Installing certificates for our users via GPO

In any organization, Our users need certificates to access certain websites, whether for your own authentication or on behalf of your company. The most normal thing is that it is? install the certificate on the computer with the logged-in user, which is a manual process and that we have to take into account when a new person enters the organization, or when we have to renew a certificate, We have to do this process as many times as necessary. Well, we can use the directives of our Active Directory to assign certificates to users fully automatically.

New in Windows 2008 R2: Managed Service Account

One of the new features brought by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is the 'Managed Service Accounts', which are user accounts that we may assign to our services. It is well known that in our Active Directory we have assigned password expiration policies and we always have a service that does not start with a local system account or SYSTEM, with more privileges. To avoid this hassle of managing accounts with expiring passwords, or that they are vulnerable since the password is always the same and can allow someone to take advantage of that, Microsoft has released this new feature, Of course, to be able to use it, our Active Directory has to be in “Windows Server 2008 R2”.

Using PowerGUI and its PowerPacks

PowerGUI is one of the best free tools, especially for those of us who work with PowerShell environments and still do not feel comfortable, it is a graphic tool that allows us to create, edit, import, export our Windows PowerShell-based scripts. In this document we will see how to install it that has nothing and how we can organize our scripts, as well as being able to see how to use scripts for VMware, Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, Routers, communications, Internet, Systems Center, Operations Manager, Xen, Hyper-V, Citrix, Skype, Reporting, Twitter … everything that relies on PowerShell.

Using Windows AIK for Windows Deployments 7 and Windows 2008 R2

We can use Windows AIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) to easily and quickly display Windows images 7 and Windows 2008 R2. With this, We will be able to create an image from a team that we have prepared for our organization and apply it to all the teams (being able to put drivers, Applications, Configurations…). This document will look at the use of response files to prevent interaction during the installation of the operating system and thus perform unattended installations, creating and using a Windows PE CD for booting the pre-installation environment and network imaging deployment, as well as the use of scripts to avoid our intervention as much as possible.

USMT Application (User State Migration Tool)

This application will help us to migrate user profiles, either from one computer to another or to migrate the machine from a Microsoft Windows XP operating system to Microsoft Windows Vista, or directly if we are going to migrate from a Workgroup to a domain, or from one domain to another. All the information will migrate to us, User profile settings and data, are certified or are files encrypted by him (EFS), as well as ACLs (Access Control List) of the files… We can also do this using variables or XML configuration files.

How to Migrate a Print Server to Windows Server 2008

Today, In this document, we'll look at how to migrate a print server from a Windows 2003 to a Windows Server 2008 or directly between Windows servers 2008. It's pretty simple, since the new printer server will allow us to export configurations and import them into the new server, carrying drivers if they are compatible and sharing print queues, it will configure the destination server as the source server was.