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The Windows 7 TechNet forums are available to take your calls
by
rodtrent
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro/
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Windows
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Windows 7
British Navy Releases "Windows For Submarines" (MSFT)
by
rodtrent
The British Royal Navy has developed a modified version of the Windows XP operating system for its warships. The first version, "Windows for Submarines," is being installed on the fleets...
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Hardware
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Miscellaneous Nothings
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Windows
Get NTBackup back on Vista
by
rodtrent
Miss NTBackup? – the simple Microsoft backup utility you were used to with Windows XP? Daniel Petri shows you how to install the Windows XP version of NTBackup on your Windows Vista installation. http...
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Windows
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Windows Vista
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Windows XP
Windows 3.x sees it’s final blue screen
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rodtrent
RIP: November 1st, 2008. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5915&zoneid=71
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Windows
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Industry News
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Learn about Windows 7
by
rodtrent
Windows 7 Preview Video – Mike Nash, CVP Product Management, Windows
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Windows
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Industry News
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Microsoft
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Media
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Windows 7
The Cloud is called Azure…
by
rodtrent
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
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Windows
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Microsoft
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Cloud Computing
What is in my My Quick Launch bar?
by
rodtrent
Garth posted about what is in his Quick Launch bar . I thought I would reciprocate and go a bit further. Here’s my Quick Launch bar (left to right, top to bottom): BlogJet Internet Explorer Outlook...
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Community
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Miscellaneous Nothings
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Windows
Out-of-band patch marked Critical
by
rodtrent
Bulletin Identifier Windows Bulletin Maximum Severity Rating Critical Impact of Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Detection Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether your computer system...
Filed under:
Patch Management
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Security
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Windows
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Windows Vista
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Windows XP
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Windows Server
Microsoft is “V” crazy…
by
rodtrent
Firdous Gangat posted that Microsoft has adorned their Kidaro acquisition with a new name: Med-V . App-V, Hyper-V, now Med-V. What’s next? Win-V?
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Windows
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Virtualization
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Microsoft
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App-V
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Hyper-V
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Med-V
Windows drops fancy names
by
rodtrent
Windows was on a trek for “find itself” apparently, because after years of naming conventions that copied the car industry to flashy names like “Vista”, Windows 7 will be named: Windows 7. To the...
Filed under:
Windows
Process Monitor gets a major update
by
rodtrent
This major update to Process Monitor adds real-time TCP and UDP monitoring to its existing process, thread, DLL, file system and registry monitoring. You can now see the TCP and UDP activity processes...
Filed under:
Software
,
Windows
Bill and Jerry Microsoft ad number 2
by
rodtrent
http://www.myITforum.com/absolutevc/?v=1152
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Windows
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Video
,
Microsoft
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Media
Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
by
rodtrent
Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance...
Filed under:
Database
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Software
,
Windows
"Windows 7" appears in WSUS
by
rodtrent
http://yannis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DB18F7F778686DA1!8209.entry
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Microsoft SyncToy v2.0 released…
by
rodtrent
http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5506&zoneid=71
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Software
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Windows
Microsoft’s categorization of support and unsupported methods and operations
by
rodtrent
Even though you have found a process or procedure that works great for what you need, what does it mean when Microsoft says that it is unsupported? Here’s how Microsoft categorizes supported and unsupported...
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Community
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Systems Management
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Windows
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System Center
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OpsMgr 2007
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ConfigMgr 2007
,
Microsoft
,
Support
Mojave gets its own web site
by
rodtrent
Microsoft’s special sauce OS experiment is unveiled tomorrow at the following location: http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ It should be interesting to see.
Filed under:
Windows
Universal Extractor extracts even Windows Installer packages…
by
rodtrent
Cool! Might be a neat, new addition to the old toolbelt. http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
Filed under:
Software
,
Windows
,
Software Management
ReactOS. Is this a joke?
by
rodtrent
The folks at ReactOS indicate they’ve created a brand new operating system from the ground-up. From the web site: ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003 . Written...
Filed under:
Windows
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Industry News
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Windows XP
Quick tip: Enabling Hyper-V disables Sleep
by
rodtrent
Thanks to Philip Richardson for posting this tip that I’m sure will help out a myITforum’er.
Filed under:
Windows
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Windows Vista
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Hyper-V
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Windows Server
Windows XP – we hardly knew ye…
by
rodtrent
Today’s the last day that Microsoft will sell Windows XP. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=5188&z=71 Personally, I haven’t used Windows XP for over 2 years in lieu of Windows Vista...
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Windows
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Windows XP
Hyper-V – the video tutorials
by
rodtrent
Hyper-V hits RTM interview with Mike Neil Hyper-V Part 1 - Architecture - Interview with PMs Hyper-V Part 2 - VM Snapshots - Interviews with PMs Hyper-V Part 3 - TAP and VSS Snapshots - Interview with...
Filed under:
Windows
,
Virtualization
,
Media
,
Hyper-V
Bill Veghte’s Open Letter to Windows Customers on the Updated Windows Roadmap
by
rodtrent
To: Windows Customers From: Bill Veghte Re: An Update on the Windows Roadmap Today, more than 1 billion personal computers around the world run Windows. Over the years, Windows has been the catalyst for...
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Windows
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Microsoft
Admin Guide for PXE Lite v1.6 for SCCM2007 is now public
by
rodtrent
At the bottom of the Nomad Branch product page: http://www.1e.com/DownloadList.aspx?Product=nomadenterprise&Section=nomadenterprise
Filed under:
Systems Management
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Windows
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Microsoft Deployment
,
System Center
,
ConfigMgr 2007
Free Windows Vista book mailed to you from Microsoft
by
rodtrent
Requires a Live ID/Passport… https://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/vistaready/default.aspx
Filed under:
Windows
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Training
,
Windows Vista
,
Books
Print Server Migration – the script
by
rodtrent
Jarvis post a cool script to help migrate workstations from one print server to another while maintaining the same printer names and default printer. http://verbalprocessor.com/2008/06/06/print-server...
Filed under:
Scripting
,
Windows
Windows Search 4.0 released!
by
rodtrent
This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements. Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS (encrypted...
Filed under:
Windows
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Windows Live
New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista
by
rodtrent
At a Glance: Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget Download the code for this article...
Filed under:
Security
,
Windows
Error in the docs: Installing WSUS on Windows Server 2008
by
rodtrent
Jarvis finds a typo in the documentation for installing IIS on a 2008 server... http://verbalprocessor.com/2008/05/29/wsus-on-server-2008/
Filed under:
Patch Management
,
Windows
mRemote
by
rodtrent
mRemote allows you to manage all your remote connections in a single place. It currently supports the RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, ICA and HTTP/S protocols. Looks pretty neat... http://sourceforge...
Filed under:
Networking
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Systems Management
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Windows
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