There is a great new post over here (http://adventuresinosd.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-10-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7-32.html) at Adventures in OSD on the reasons to avoid the 32-bit version of Windows 7 in the enterprise. I strongly agree with all of his points and made one conclusion – if you are going to run a 32-bit OS then stick with Windows XP 32-bit, [...]

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As Microsoft 64-bit client Operating Systems become more common, we need to ensure we are covering all combinations when scripting in general as well as within SCCM programs. I wanted to highlight a recent situation where I couldn’t figure out why my script couldn’t write to the %systemroot%\System32 folder on a 64 bit Windows 7 [...]

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I’ve often used a very simple query to find if a processor is 64 bit capable. Open up a command prompt and enter the following: wmic cpu get datawidth I doesn’t matter the version of the Operating System you are running, this WMI query will return the actually hardware processor capability. If it returns a [...]

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With more clients and servers going 64bit, if you are troubleshooting ODBC issues on Clients or Servers running 64-bit operating systems (especially with 32bit apps) then you may need to check the 32bit version of ODBC Data Source Administrator to see the appropriate DSNs: According to Microsoft ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942976/en-us ): The 32-bit version of the [...]

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