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How to disable Java add-ons in Internet Explorer with Group Policy

Follow the below steps to disable Java in Internet Explorer with Group Policy. Open Internet Explorer, then from the Tools menu select Manage Add-ons....

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, January 13, 2013

How to check the status of BIOS & UEFI & Secure Boot with PowerShell

During the past weeks I spend a bit of time deploying Windows 8 to UEFI enabled clients. With PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 you will find some [new cmdl...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, January 11, 2013

ToolTip: Windows 8 Update Notifier

With the introduction of Windows 7 Microsoft started to pay attention to remove unnecessary noise from the Windows Desktop meaning reducing the number...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, December 31, 2012

Exploring the functions included in Microsoft.BDD.Utility.dll

While browsing through the MDT 2012 scripts, I noticed that here and there MDT uses functions included in the Microsoft.BDD.Utility.dll which is loade...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, December 23, 2012

List Task Sequence Variables and Values Script

For years I have been using the following script from [myITforum](http://www.myitforum.com/articles/42/view.asp?id=11729) to list Task Sequence Enviro...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, December 21, 2012

How to detect if Windows Touch is enabled

How to detect whether Windows Touch is enabled using MDT tooling and a lightweight check.

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, December 20, 2012