MordyT

They can make the shortcut on their home PC and run it from a flash drive. If you block flash drives, they can email the shortcut to themselves and run it from temp. Yes, if you block .lnk files through GPO that might stop that, but open a whole new can of worms / work for you to do.

Still running XP? You will need to allow .lnk files as well

I have personally started recommending one array in almost every case. You can partition in windows however you want and there is little to gain by having separate VDs. A 5,6, or 10 will recover from a disk failure no problem just as easy if it is one VD as it will if it is 2. There is benefits to having one array, for example your hot spare is much more useful, adding disks and expanding partitions is much more clean, m management is easier, etc.

I have this issue and want to kill Microsoft. Here is what I have noticed: Many PCs affected. 2013 home and business Once A PC throws that error, any file, even a blank one will throw the error. A reboot fixes it again for a short time I loaded 2010 and this works without the error. Even when 13 throws the error, 2010 still works. A trigger point for us was attach a file to am email from a drive and then open the attachment (before sending). This sets it off. Multiple PCs built off multiple images MS support can't or won't fix it. They did acknowledge it and go WTF? 2010 has its own issues (like can't hit enable editing without closing and reopening sometimes). I hate office (or excel at least)

Hiding the c drive is a waste of time. Right click, new shortcut, put whatever you want in there \\localhost\c$, hit save 2x (normally get an error the first time) and viola. Office not required.

All I can think is that if you do that don't install the vbox additions - you'll just have to remove then for hyper v

I turn all my scripts containing passwords into exe's

Oh. I thought (hoped) it was something I could add to my current lab - maybe next time we are buying PCs....

Someone with Flex PCs... Is this a full PC, a case that you transplant your PC into, or a wrap around case?

Well, we use regular non roaming profiles on each PC. We customize the default profile so when you log on you get a set experience. Doesn't mean you can't break it though. If you hose your profile somehow we just delete and have you log in again

I haven't been able to do that. However, there is a nice tool to convert the sbf and SBI files to vhds. You would still be left with several vhds - one for each partition - though.

Shadow protect here

I manage approx 10 vipre sites (my team does over 100) - we happen to like it. Careful - there are various companies licensing viper and calling it something else - ymmv as a result.

Access to the exchange server? How about a scheduled task to run a PS script that turns it on... support.microsoft.com/kb/2667296

How about a offline p2v using the systinternals tool? I have no idea if it will work. Normally I would do a backup with shadow protect and then convert to vhd using shadowprotect