In some situations our customers want to see the drive letters first, instead of the drive name. For example (C:) SYSTEM or SYSTEM (C:). You can edit this with the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“ShowDriveLettersFirst”=dword:00000004

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By default System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) uses the drive which has the most free space left to store the packages. To avoid SCCM storing of packages on the system drive, you can create a file on the root of the system drive, called no_sms_on_drive.sms.
Now you’re sure that the system drive will not be used by SCCM!
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What a great day for me….I passed the 70-662 TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring! After two hours I pressed the END button, and finished with a score of 907/1000.
The last few mounths Exchange 2010 was my daily thing! Building…..building…..building and again building, this was the best preparing for me! A lot of things I’ve seen in Berlin at the TechEd, so I was ready to rock!

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A cool new feature in Exchange 2010 is to add a signature to your e-mail based on Active Directory information. So if you fill in the correct information in the Active Directory, the signature will be automatically added to your e-mail. You need to follow these steps:
1.) Open the Exchange Management Console
2.) Navigate to Organization Configuration, Hub Transport, Transport Rules
3.) Create a new transport rule
4.) Design the signature based on the Active Directory information, in my example it is:
Met vriendelijke groet,<br><br>
%%displayName%%<br>
%%Department%%
(Note: you can find all the user attributes using ADSIEDIT for example).
5.) Send a e-mail to another user and check the e-mailsignature
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With the following registry key, you can remove the Network from Windows Explorer. Users cannot browse the network anymore.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}]=dword:00000001

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Today i’ve setup a new Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services environment. When I configure the GPO “force classic start menu”, all users have the icons “Libraries” and “Control Panel” available on the desktop. You can fix this problem to delete the following resgistry keys:
Remove the Libraries icon from the desktop
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}]
Remove Control Panel icon from the desktop
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}]
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