VMWare is now offering ESX for free! I have been using it on my test system and it works great. I can now run multiple versions of Notification Server and Deployment Server on separate virtual machines.
I recently installed Deployment Server 6.9 SP1 Beta and noticed that the Distribute Disk Image task now has the option "Use DeployAnywhere hardware independent imaging"!
If you use Sysinternals tools on many different computers for your troubleshooting, go to live.sysinternals.com and you will be presented with a list of all Sysinternals executables.
RegMon lets you see all Registry activity in real-time. This can be helpful if you want to find out what application settings are read from what registry values, etc. So that you can script registry changes to standardize your application.
If you ever need to script the removal of an application or need to run an install or upgrade that requires the application to be closed, you can use PsKill to kill all the open processes of a certain file so that you can be sure the task will c