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Dude where's my PFE?
Windows 8 Tip of the Day: How to map a drive in Windows to a Skydrive folder or root.
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15 days ago
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Jeff Stokes
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1) Open a document in SkyDrive – such as an excel xls or word doc 2) File->Save As (Note folder – it will be something like https://d.docs.live.net/{your-id}/Documents 3) In Windows Explorer, click Map Network Drive and enter path Note: I use https...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day, Storage Spaces Explained
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19 days ago
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Jeff Stokes
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From Robert Mitchell ! Storage Spaces is functionality built into Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 that allows you to pool together physical disks into a logical grouping and then carve out virtual disks (aka storage spaces or just spaces). These...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Sysinternals Updates!
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21 days ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Today’s Tip… From Robert Mitchell ! A number of SysInternals tools were recently updated. For those of you that use these tools on a regular basis, you might want to grab these updates and add them to your respective collections. AccessChk v5.11...
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How to redirect Serial Ports in Windows Server 2012 RDS/VDI
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1 month ago
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Jeff Stokes
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This tip came to me from a question someone posed internally that we had to find an answer for by hunting someone down . This property isn’t exposed in Server Managers’ UI, so you can set it by calling this powershell command: Set-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionConfiguration...
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New books on Hyper-V Networking and Hyper-V Storage! Yay!
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1 month ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Networking - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145383068.do Optimizing and Troubleshooting Hyper-V Storage - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145382924.do Check them out, no, seriously, check them out...
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Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part III
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Modifying a Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx In the previous blog post we created a virtual machine...
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Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part IV
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Installing your Virtual Machine Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx So in the...
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Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part II
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Creating a Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx So right click your virtual machine host in the...
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Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part I
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Hello folks, the Dude here, helping you make a learning lab based on a single machine. From this all things are (pretty much) possible…lets get our learning on now! Enable Hyper-V in Windows 8: Pretty straight forward step here. In the Windows...
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Bryan Zink, the man, the myth, the legend! - RaaS (Rap As A Service) message!
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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The first post is to explain to customers WHY RAP as a Service is the right move for them. · RaaS-Active Directory The Engineers Point Of View http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/04/10/raas-active-directory-the-engineers-point-of-view.aspx...
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Hot off the presses, get it now, the Windows 8 VDI optimization script, courtesy of PFE!
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Hats off to Carl Luberti! So, here it is, without further ado….its’ time to start Optimizing! ' // ======================================================================== ' // Original generated with VDIOptimizer - http://www.autoitscript...
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Windows 8 Tip o the Day!–Windows Defender All Grown Up
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2 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Today’s Tip… by Robert Mitchell! While Windows Defender has been available for a while (first available with Windows Vista), for a time it was simply an antispyware program. When Windows 8 released, it carried with it a beefier version of Windows...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Understanding Startup Items
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Todays Tip from Robert Mitchell… First for Windows RT, As part of the effort to improve battery life and PC responsiveness, the startup apps support in Windows RT was removed. Change Description: Windows RT does not honor startup app entries in the following...
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Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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If you have been following along in performance land the last year or three, you’d hear about xperf and the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit). Mayhap you’ve had some time to practice and you know what you are doing. Cool. This tool might still...
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How to deploy 2775511 using SCCM, by the Gris!
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/michaelgriswold/archive/2013/03/13/kb2775511-deployment-for-the-sccm-admin.aspx Check it out, old time buddy Michael Griswold posts instructions on how to deploy 2775511, the reliability and performance hotfix for the...
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Download this KB now!
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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And test it first please. An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511 This is a collection of the various updates we kept (we being PFEs who do WDRAP in particular...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Startup and MSConfig
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Another gem by Robert Mitchell! Today’s Tip… I remember back in NT4 the only way to track down your startup items was to look in the registry and the Startup group. Then MSCONFIG.EXE came along in Windows 2000 and made troubleshooting so...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day, SMB protocols
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Today’s Tip…brought to you by Robert Mitchell! SMB 2.0 was first introduced in Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008. It was considered to be tighter and removed some of the chattiness of the previous version. SMB 2.1 was introduced in Windows 7/Windows...
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Quickly give someone a file in Windows 8
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3 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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So Pieter Wigleven (a Dutch PFE that came to make some content with me in Seattle this week) had sent me an email with a PPTx attachment the other day and because his mail server is in Europe it was taking a while since we were in Seattle for the week...
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Windows 8 Tip of the day - How to recover ~6GB of space on your Microsoft Windows Surface
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Here is how you can recoup ~6GB of space on your 32GB Surface. Here is what you need to do: (edited to fix link, add comment about removing the recovery partition.) 1. Note this will prevent the machine reset from being able to happen. If you don...
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The Dude does AngelBeat!
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Check it out, the Dude will be presenting at Atlanta’s AngelBeat on Monday the 28th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/492/ Also presenting at the Birmingham Alabama one on Tuesday the 29th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/493 ...
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20 minute delay deploying Windows 7 on 802.1x? Fix it here!
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Someone mentioned to me that he has a 20 minute delay deploying Windows 7 to 801.1x EAP networks. They noted http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978152 which is “A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer does not respond to 802.1X...
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The network impact of a Windows 8 RT device on your network.
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Edited! So someone had this question. It’s a good one. I didn’t know the answer so I found out…. Articles here and here would indicate that network traffic should be both intermittent and light. So….lets check it out. The Test...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker PIN
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Today’s tip… While it still requires administrative privileges to configure BitLocker, with Windows 8, standard users can now by default change their own PIN/Password. It is recommended that this be used in conjunction with the ‘Configure use of...
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Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker
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4 months ago
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Jeff Stokes
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Today’s tip… Previously, BitLocker encryption has been an ‘all or nothing’. Either a volume was completely encrypted or it was not. Windows 8 brings us a new option, ‘Encrypt Used Disk Space Only’. Just like it sounds, this option allows...
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