There are many instances in managing a network when it becomes neccessary, or at least more convenient, to be able to execute commands on a remote computer without the overhead of launching a full-fledged Remote Desktop session. Until PowerShell Remoting came along there wasn’t a native way to run remote commands from Windows, and even now PS Remoting isn’t exactly intuitive. That’s where PSEXEC comes in. PSEXEC is a utility from a developer named Mark [...]

Since Vista’s release Microsoft has provided a variety of tools for deploying their operating systems. One such tool is Business Deployment Desktop which Microsoft describes as ” the best-practice set of comprehensive guidance and tools from Microsoft to optimally deploy Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system.” Though BDD certainly makes OS and application deployment to a variety of hardware platforms simpler than ghosting, eventually you’ll run into a problem: some critical hardware may not be natively supported by WinPE, the preinstallation environment used to load the OS onto a new system. This article will explain how to inject LAN drivers into WinPE, allowing you to deploy installations to a larger variety of hardware.