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november 2006 - Posts

Pre-configured Windows XP SP2\IE6 VHD

Posted donderdag 30 november 2006 22:39 by tomek
If You need Windows XP SP2 \ IE 6 client virtual machine for testing purposes or just for browsing You can download pre-configured (and activated) VHD image (1.5 Gb) from Microsoft. It contains Windows XP SP2\ IE6 and IE7 Readiness Toolkit. System installed Read More...
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Hybrid sleep in Vista

Posted donderdag 30 november 2006 21:44 by tomek
Shutdown options in Vista had recently some space in blogsphere because of Joel's post about Vista shutdown menu, and follow up made by Moishe Lettvin who worked on developing this piece. Continuing this thread we can get a view on how development Read More...
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Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

Posted woensdag 22 november 2006 21:03 by tomek
New download called Windows Automated Installation K it just showed up on Downloads. According to its description: (...) Use this tool to configure unattended setup answer files (Unattend.xml) and capture images. (...) It support Windows 2003/XP/Vista. Read More...
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ADMTv3 migration guide

Posted zaterdag 18 november 2006 16:15 by tomek
Most of people dealing with Active Directory knows or heard of Active Directory Migration Guide. With version 3 being current, this tool allows to migrate data between Windows NT\Active Directory domains, helping in migration and domain restructuring Read More...
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PowerShell and IE7 ADM templates

Posted donderdag 16 november 2006 15:24 by tomek
ADM templates are hot this week. Right after publishing PowerShell ADM templates for PowerShell showed up on Microsoft Downloads. IE7 ADM templates also were published today. Read More...
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Office 2007 ADM templates

Posted zaterdag 11 november 2006 15:56 by tomek
Microsoft has published on Downloads Office 2007 ADM templates for downloads. As Office 2007 will be launched soon and may start to show up in our networks maybe it is worth to take a look at ADM possibilities before this will happen. Read More...
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Vista RTM first impressions

Posted donderdag 9 november 2006 23:28 by tomek
Vista officially got to RTM. I'm using Vista since it became Beta 2 with several upgrades on the way. Today I installed fresh Vista RTM on my laptop and I want to share few of my fresh thoughts about it. First - installation procedure. Damn, it is Read More...
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More data is available exception when searching with S.DS

Posted donderdag 9 november 2006 22:45 by tomek
If You are developer and You have to utilize Active Directory or ADAM in Your application .NET System.DirectoryServices (S.DS) namespace is nice thing to have. It simplifies operation performed against Active Directory, hiding all COM stuff behind relatively Read More...
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Sysinternals has a new home

Posted woensdag 8 november 2006 9:41 by tomek
Sysinternals tools have new home at TechNet - if You need it now You can find at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ . With new home, new tool was added to SysInternals toolset - ProcessMonitor , which has functionality of Regmon and Filemon Read More...
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Few word on objectCategory usage in LDAP filters

Posted maandag 6 november 2006 22:49 by tomek
Recently my friend wrote simple app which is querying AD for some data, and he sent me LDAP filter to check - this filter was completely OK, but not very straightforward to read. Yesterday I came across similar usage of objectCategory attribute in LDAP Read More...
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First snow this year

Posted maandag 6 november 2006 22:24 by tomek
Just few days ago I posted few pictures taken in Warsaw in sunny day. Below is a photo taken on this Sunday morning from my flat window. Ladies and gentleman Her Majesty Winter has arrived (not for long at this time, as rain washed this snow very quickly) Read More...
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Linked Value Replication - what's this about

Posted zaterdag 4 november 2006 22:33 by tomek
Hmm ... first the question? How many of readers is aware of Linked Value Replication (LVR) in Active Directory? If what I think about readers of this blog is true probably majority of readers is very aware what this is and how it works. At the end I don't Read More...
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Microsoft and Novell are announcing cooperation on SUSE Linux

Posted donderdag 2 november 2006 22:58 by tomek
At this very moment Microsoft and Novell are announcing agreement both companies made on supporting SUSE Linux and Open Source technology in terms of interoperability. Details of this agreement are being announced but it looks like Microsoft and Novell Read More...
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