http://www.newsweek.com/id/217014/ is worth reading if you manage users password policies or you interested in them
Austin just repeated some excellent advice for DS Admin’s you can see Joe’s list here
I got a new tablet a HP tx2-1340ea and couldn’t resist installing Windows 7 Ultimate (it only came with some lesser form Windows 7 like Home User and a load of HP non essential stuff) and to install the new Windows 7 I turned to one of my USB keys rather than use a DVD.
Long story short – it worked. How do you do it? Well you need one that is at least 4GB in size. Open yourself an Elevated Command Prompt. Type in diskpart and press enter. Type list disk, make a note of the number you get here as you may have multiple ones on you system. Now come selecting the drive so type select disk # (which is the number you got back when you listed the disks before). Now you have to clean it down so type clean and press enter. Once that’s finished you have to create partition primary and again press enter. Now type select partition 1 and again press enter. Now you have to activate it so type active and press enter. Now it’s the time to format it so type format fs=ntfs quick (the quick saves some time but isn’t essential). Now type assign and enter to allocate a drive letter to the new drive, mine was I:. Your now fished with the Command Prompt and can safely exit it. Now you can copy the installation media, mine was on an ISO so using Virtual CloneDrive a wonderful freeware program I copied all the files over and booted the tablet. With a couple of reboots I had Windows 7 installed and ready to go. The same should hold true of booting a server and installing a server OS and I’ll report back on how that experiment goes.