Month: September 2011
Microsoft Product Lifecycle – The year 2014 is not that far away anymore
The countdown has started in less than 1000 days Windows XP will definitely go end of life. However note that not only Windows XP reaches its end soon, Office 2003, Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003, SCCM 2003 and some other Read More …
ToolTip: Webcam Diagnostics
Webcam Diagnostics is a simple assistant which gathers many system and webcam-related information in a single place. It makes it easy to identify driver installation problems or USB issues: red circles will signal serious issues and yellow triangles will signal Read More …
Windows 8 – How to check if your system can run Hyper-V
Many articles refer to the Sysinternals Coreinfo utility to check whether your system can run Hyper-V on Windows 8 or not. But just this morning I found out that the systeminfo command that is included in Windows provides some additional Read More …
Windows 8–Why you don’t close a Metro Style application
One of the first things I noticed when playing with the Windows 8 preview build was that you can’t close metro style applications. Almost instinctively I pressed the Alt+F4 keys when I wanted to close a running application but nothing Read More …
Windows 8 – New GPO stuff
I have just compared the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder on the Widows 8 preview build with a Windows 7 Enterprise build. And unless I missed one, the below ADMX/ADML files are new. AppxPackageManager.admx dam.admx DeviceCompat.admx EAIME.admx EarlyLaunchAM.admx EdgeUI.admx ExternalBoot.admx msched.admx ProximityCommon.admx srm-fci.admx Read More …
Windows 8 – How to disable the Metro logon screen
When starting Windows 8 you’ll see the Metro logon screen as shown in the picture below. The user logon then looks like this. If you prefer to get the Windows 7 style logon screen back, set RPEnabled to 0 the Read More …
ToolTip: AmiProject–online MS Project Viewer
Today I received a project plan with the request to review it. Since I haven’t installed MS project yet on my new notebook that I just got last week, I replied that I would look at it as soon as Read More …
Group Policy Settings for Microsoft Lync 2010 Client
Just in case you missed this one, Microsoft released documentation and an ADM template for the Microsoft Lync 2010 client. The following settings can be configured. Specify transport and server Enable strict DNS naming for server name Configure SIP security Read More …