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Two times now I was asked to help people with their computer because it did not perform/work anymore as it should. Why? Because people do not know what they are doing, do not realize the internet can be an unsafe place, install all kinds of crap they Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 11:30 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Installing W2K3 Admin Tools Pack on Vista RTM

At this moment no native Admin Pack Tools exist for Windows Vista. Today on http://www.activedir.org/ Steve Linehan posted how to install the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Admin Tools on Windows Vista to manage your current Active Directory environment. You Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 11:21 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

What would YOU choose?

Not sure if other countries have this, but in the Netherlands employers (not everyone does it however) give their employees a christmas gift. Over here it is called, when literally translated, "christmas packet" (kerstpakket). My girlfriend's employer Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:47 PM by Jorge | 3 Comments
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Finding unused GPOs

In time you may have gone crazy and created and used a lot of GPOs. Some may be disabled, not be linked, be orphaned in the SYSVOL or not have any setting configured. So how can you check which GPO does meets the criteria mentioned above without going Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:17 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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WIndows PowerShell officially released!

Just like Windows Vista last week, Windows Powershell has been officially released. Windows PowerShell is the next generation scripting language provided by Microsoft. A new line of products I know that will use and support Windows PowerShell are Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:31 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Microsoft offering pre-configured virtual machines

Since a few days Microsoft offers pre-configured virtual machines that can be loaded into Virtual PC or Virtual Server. That way you only need to download it from the Microsoft site, load it into VPC/VS and use it! I wonder what will be faster: "donwloading Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:03 AM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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It's out! - Vista RTM'ed!

As of yesterday (08-11-2006), Vista has been made available. Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-08VistaRTM.mspx And you can get more (technical) info here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ Cheers, Jorge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:49 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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