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Month: August 2008

IE 8 Beta 2 released

Posted on28 August 200828 August 2008Leave a comment

Earlier as planned, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. A final release date has not been communicated yet. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/

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Take a break

Posted on26 August 200826 August 2008Leave a comment

Remember  Space Invaders. ……if you’re in the office, turn of sound 🙂 The flash based game can be found here. And if you have read my post about using BITS for file downloads you can download the swf file for Read More …

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Organize your desktop

Posted on25 August 200825 August 2008Leave a comment

Sysinternals published a new nice utility called Desktops. Not that this is something we haven’t seen before, but like all the tools from sysinternals it’s all nicely packaged into one executable. It’s definitely worth a try. Thanks Tobi for the Read More …

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CategoriesTools, VirtualizationTagsDesktop, Sysinternals

Identifying the WDS Server

Posted on25 August 200825 August 2008Leave a comment

When deploying an image from a WDS server it might be useful to know its computer name. Johan Arwidmark has posted the details about the WDSServer variable on his blog here: http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/35/Default.aspx

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No Automatic reboot please

Posted on24 August 200824 August 2008Leave a comment

Saturday morning, before going out with my family on a shopping tour I started a large FTP download and assumed it would have completed upon my return…. a few hours later, I found my system at the logon prompt, as Read More …

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CategoriesTip, VistaTagsAutomatic Updates, registry

The need for installing the Intel Chipset update

Posted on21 August 200821 August 2008Leave a comment

Within one of the projects I’m working on, there was a debate about installing the Intel Chipset software. It was requested not to install it. I could not agree with that, as it is a common known best practice to Read More …

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The other search engine

Posted on21 August 200821 August 2008Leave a comment

When searching the web probably most of us do use Google, because although some don’t like to hear it, it has simply become the default search engine for most users and there doesn’t seem to be much competition, or would Read More …

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Official blog on Windows 7

Posted on18 August 200830 April 2009Leave a comment

Looks like Microsoft has launched its first official blog that focuses on Windows 7. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx

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GP Preferences

Posted on15 August 200815 August 20081 Comment

In 2006 Microsoft acquired the company DesktopStandard known for its extending Group Policy products GPVault and PolicyMaker. While GPVault has become part of Microsofts MDOP suite that is available only for Enterprise customers that have a Software Assurance contract, the Read More …

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CategoriesDeployment, Group Policy, Vista, Windows XPTagsGroup Policy, Vista

Enable access to RSAT after installation

Posted on15 August 200815 August 2008Leave a comment

On Windows 2000/XP you used to install the adminpak.msi to get access to the various Administrator tools such as the Active Directory Users and Computers or the DHCP management interface. With Windows Vista SP1, you must install the RSAT package, Read More …

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