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“For ‘Windows’?  Which versions?” Pretty much every supported version of Windows is impacted**, so read on.  This is important. Yesterday Microsoft released an advisory, and today Microsoft released a security patch outside of its normal release cycle, or “out of band”; meaning: not on the...

RTW = Released to the Web-i-tubes Remember back in late September when I blogged about this cool toolset that, starting with a physically installed Windows XP machine, you would end up with a fresh install of Windows 7   AND that original Windows XP machine running as a virtual machine in XP-Mode...

Hello all! Below is the online version of the Resource Page that I’m handing out at my TechNet Events over the next several weeks. I hope you find them useful! -Kevin UPDATE : If you want the PowerPoint files, they can be viewed or downloaded from HERE. ----- E-mail Technical Questions...

This is a really exciting scenario:  You want to get your user(s) upgraded to Windows 7 , but they’ve got XP systems with applications that they just can’t do without.  For some reason, the applications won’t work under Windows 7. “Hey Kevin – Isn’t that what XP-Mode in Windows 7 is for?” Exactly...

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Today a security update is being released out-of-band to address a known and recently exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. (See the MSRC Blog for more information about the advanced notification.) “The vulnerability used in these attacks, along with workarounds...

WAG = Windows Administrator Groups Last week I decided to try something new, and it’s catching on in a big way. I wanted to create a new set of user groups for IT Administrators who primarily work with MIcrosoft Windows -based infrastructures. So I came up with the acronym WAG. I’m also a recent...

“Hey Kevin.. I want to deploy Windows 7 , and hear good things about IE8 , but I don’t know how to start evaluating what I need to make the move off of Internet Explorer 6. I am sure I have at least one critical application that might not work in IE8, and need to know what it takes to plan for and perform...

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-jan.mspx This is an important one folks. “Who or what software does this impact"?” You can see the full list HERE under the “Affected Software” section. But in a nutshell it’s every OS from Windows 2000 and later on running Windows Internet...

I fired up my tweetdeck just a minute ago and saw this tweet from Jeffrey Snover (the architect of PowerShell ): “What does it mean? It means that the new version of PowerShell (version 2.0) is now RTW (Released to Web).  And not only PowerShell 2.0, but also WinRM 2.0 and BITS 4.0.  It’s called...

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The folks “at corporate” have done a great job with this. If you are one of the many IT Pros out there who are just beginning to consider how you’re going to move your PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7 , you definitely need to check out this guide: Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration The guide...

Just for fun - Saw this on the Springboard Series Blog : http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/06/22/you-ve-angered-the-great-master-russinovich.aspx

Just thought I’d share a cool/useful web resource. It’s a “video blog” (pronounced “vblog”, I presume) called “ Talking About Windows ”. http://www.talkingaboutwindows.com Ever wonder about the details around the deep inner-workings of some of your favorite features in Windows ? Want to hear...

Today Microsoft reached another milestone in the release cycle for the next version of Internet Explorer - “IE8”. I’ve been running Beta 2 very happily for quite awhile, and recently gained access to an internal release of Release Candidate 1. Today we’ve made that release available for anyone who wants...

To Hibernate, or NOT to Hibernate… Question 2: “I like using Hibernate. But after I installed [an antivirus program that shall not be pointed to here], hibernate stopped working. I don’t even have an option in the menu anymore.” There are a couple things that may have messed with hibernate. Apparently...

Hello Omaha!   Thanks for being such gracious hosts, as always!  I love coming to town.  Sorry none of you took me up on the Karaoke Challenge out at Mic’s .  Maybe next time!  (Hey.. how about this next week? I’ll be at the Omaha HDC , and likely going out to Mic’s on Thursday...