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Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Server 2008 is here
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to the Download Center and Windows Update. The Service Packs are available in five languages (English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish). Localized packages in your favorite Read More...
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta Available
Mike Nash and Justin Graham announced the Customer Preview Program for Service Pack 2 Beta for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 on the The Windows Blog and the Windows Server Division Weblog earlier this week. While MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers Read More...
Exchange (2003) System Manager for Vista
Remote Management incompatibility is one of the biggest problems with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007 on one side and Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 (R2) and Exchange Server 2003 on the other side. Up until today the table Read More...
Windows Server 2008 as workstation OS?
Looking at websites with appealing names like www.win2008workstation.com there seem to be (home) users that want to convert Windows Server 2008 to the workstation Operating System Windows Vista should have been. About win2008workstation.com Win2008workstation.com Read More...
5 things you should know about Windows 7
All you need to know is... ... What you already know. In our society information is the greatest good. Microsoft has decided not to release a lot of information on Windows 7 for a reason. It was one of the mistakes admitted with Windows Vista. Some features Read More...
Building the Flaming Dog Lanfestival environment
One of the fun things I get to do is co-organizing the Flaming Dog Lanfestival, where my main responsibility is to design, build and manage the networking infrastructure. About the Flaming Dog Lanfestival Last year Michiel de Jongh and I organized the Read More...
Remotely managing your Server Core using WinRM and WinRS
I've already shown you how to remotely manage your Server Core installations of Windows Server Core using the Remote Desktop Protocol , but using Windows Remote Management (WinRM, Microsoft implementation of WS-Management ) in combination with WinRS might Read More...
Bitlocker revisited
A while ago I wrote a blog post on BitLocker Drive Encryption and why I thought it wasn’t ready for prime time yet. While reading up on BitLocker I found out two of my eight reasons are history or will be history in the near future. BitLocker Drive Encryption Read More...
Imperfections of BitLocker 1.0
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition and Windows Vista Enterprise Edition offer BitLocker Drive Encryption as a method to encrypt the contents of your hard drive. While working with BitLocker Drive Encryption I experienced a couple of imperfections and weaknesses. Read More...
Dutch localization of Windows Vista
I've been wrestling with Dutch localized versions of Windows Vista for a little while now. My conclusion so far: I don't consider it to be a finished product. (Yes, I know you've heard it before) Furthermore I think it's a disgrace Microsoft markets the Read More...
the Non-Existence of Virtual PC Express
According to older news Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Ultimate would both have a feature called Virtual PC Express. In fact both versions of Windows Vista do not ship with this feature. Clearly the cause of this is the new virtualization Read More...
Using Service Pack 1 as a marker
Microsoft today sent an e-mail today to Technology Adaptation Partner (TAP) testers announcing to release ServicePack 1 for Windows Vista in the second half of 2007 (H2 2007) to collide with the launch of Microsoft Windows Server codename "Longhorn". Read More...
Business Desktop Deployment 2007 available
This morning I received a much anticipated e-mail stating the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 is now available. What is BDD 2007? As many of you might have read in my post about Deploying Windows Vista Centrally this tool Read More...
Conserving energy with Active Directory
Treehugger magazine has a very clear statement on Microsoft Windows XP and its "high-performance" yet "energy-consuming" default settings this week. They boldly state Microsoft Windows XP wasted $25 billion of Energy with the help of Foreign Policy . Read More...
Windows Vista Group Policy Reference available
The Group Policy Settings Reference for Microsoft Windows Vista is available here (as the SBS diva pointed out ). Now we can finally look at the Group Policies that will be available for administrators instead of guessing on the information that was available Read More...
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