Hi there, I’ve received quite a few queries on this subject recently so I believe this might be of interest :) When activating Windows 7 through KMS, there are 3 “moving targets” you need to consider: The KMS host The KMS Volume License Key DNS Between...

The Windows Update Feature in Windows 7 allows administrators to configure it to either service Windows only or to extend it to other products from Microsoft Update. In most cases, Windows Update is used by end-users only with no need to automate or script...

Public opinion is a strange beast. In the past, especially when reading articles in the rather populist corner, you got the impression that anything with a Microsoft logo on it should only be touched with a Hazmat suit on because it was “sooo insecure...

After setting up my XBOX360 as a Media Centre Extender, I ran into a quite annoying problem – at random intervals (but often associated with interacting with the Extender interface – starting/stopping videos, etc.), the connection broke off with the message...

My setup at home consists of a Windows 7 Media Centre machine sitting in my home office, since it’s quite clunky and just doesn’t look right in the living room (apart from the fact that I want to use it for other stuff, too), a wild networking setup including...

Two days ago, on TechEd Australia, a customer walked up to me with his delegate netbook in hand and a problem on his mind. He had been trying to install the ZTE-made modem on the netbook, but the built-in software kept complaining that it didn’t find...

Now this is kind of an embarrassing story, but I’ll tell it anyway :) – After having promoted the troubleshooting engine in Windows 7 in front of my customers for quite some time, I had never thought I would be using them myself, but sometimes the solution...

Just a few days ago I received a netbook of the same sort that will be handed out at TechEd this year. Now with Windows 7 at RTM status, I immediately gave it a go and must say that I am impressed. What really amazed me was the standby/resume performance...

Ever since moving over to Windows 7, I was looking forward to joining our internal DirectAccess pilot, because I simply loved the idea of having access to all internal network resources without the need of a VPN connection. Now that I am included in this...

If, like myself, you need (or want) to work with more than one Operating System on the same piece of hardware, before Windows 7, you could either create a multiboot environment using separate partitions or run a virtualisation solution like VirtualPC...

Yet another Windows blog… :) I’m going to try to keep the entries here pretty concise, not duplicating stuff already found in the other sources of information, like: Engineering Windows 7 (Windows Product Engineering Team): http://blogs.msdn.com...