Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

re: Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

Ivan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:04:36 GMT

Are you going to fix the manageability issues for enterprises when a UNC file share that Offline Files is pinning against moves (e.g. new infrastructure or user account rename due to marriage, which both cause the UNC path to the user's home directory to change).

Currently, the issues with Vista are:

1) Only an administrator-equivalent can use Win32_OfflineFilesCache.RenameItem() to change the pointers in the Offline Files cache to a new share (enterprise end users typically don't have admin rights)

2) Win32_OfflineFilesCache.RenameItem() fails if the user logs back on before an administrator can change the pointers to the new share (due to auto-pinning at logon creating pointers in CSC to the new share)

3) A restart is required for Win32_OfflineFilesCache.RenameItem() to take effect, assuming it can be made to work, thereby creating unnecessary downtime.

4) Have to manually track down every machine where that user has logged on to fix the Offline Files cache for them.

5) Very expensive and manually intensive process that cannot be fully automated via a (logon) script.

Thanks

re: Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

Ivan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:49:54 GMT

One of the issues my users have with Vista laptops while roaming is that Vista attempts to download their roaming profile from a public network that it knows is untrusted, producing a needless delay and error message at logon. Is Win7 smart enough yet to try to download the roaming profile only when the "Domain" firewall profile is applied? Thanks

re: Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

Ivan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:34:27 GMT

Will there be a hypervisor in Windows 7? The ability to run a single legacy 32-bit OS on 64-bit Win7 would be very useful for application compat issues that cannot be addressed with ACT. (e.g. 16-bit apps, heap corruption issues etc)

re: Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

deepfresh — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:28:54 GMT

@Ron Are you using Windows 7, suggest you have a look at the Windows 7 Forums at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/ or have a look at our Office Technical Support area at http://support.microsoft.com/select/default.aspx?target=hub&c1=505&?wa=wsignin1.0

re: Questions and Answers from today’s Windows 7 Live Meeting session

Ron Maylath — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:02:08 GMT

I have Office 2007 and the Word 2007 has stopped responding. I am a novice at usiing computers and when I try to save or print a document the screen fads and the Word stop responding. How do I correct this?

Windows 7 Live Meeting Today: Update on Demo’s

Jeff Alexander's Weblog — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:33:53 GMT

Thanks to those of you that showed up today for the Live Meeting on Windows 7!  It was great to