Consolidating Disk Partitions in a Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration

If your Windows XP systems have multiple disk partitions and you are migrating them to Windows 7, you may have a requirement to combine all partitions into one so Windows 7 ends up on a sufficiently large partition.  In a Refresh scenario, where the same Windows XP system will end up with Windows 7, [...]

Using Microsoft Security Baselines with System Center Configuration Manager

Microsoft provides security baselines with hundreds of security configuration settings that you can use to compare against your systems to determine how secure your environment is or to monitor security compliance in your organization.  Comparing the settings of a security baseline against many computers and obtaining the result may prove to be a challenging [...]