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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:03 PM

Release the Windows 7 !

It’s official. Windows 7 has released to manufacturing. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx   It’s official. Windows Server 2008 R2 has released to Manufacturing http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx
Posted by jamesone | 5 Comments
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:43 AM

How to Install an Image onto a VHD file.

The last post I made talked about customizing windows image (.WIM) files, and the post before that talked about creating Virtual hard disk (.VHD) files. So the last step is to look at putting an image onto a VHD and making it bootable So the steps are
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:27 PM

How to: customize Windows images with DISM

In the initial release of Windows Server 2008 one of the the questions which always came up was “how do I add X” – the answer was we had tools named OCSETUP and OCLIST. These have been superseded in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 with the new Deployment
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:22 PM

How to: work with VHD files at the command line.

Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files have been given greater importance in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. They’ve always been used for hosting virtual machines (from the earliest Virtual PC through to Hyper-V) , and in Vista the complete image backup began to
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:28 PM

How to configure iSCSI on Server 2008 R2 core or Hyper-V server

In my post a couple of days ago I talked about configuring my servers from the command line and one of my interests at the moment is finishing off some powershell tools to handle the configuration of Server Core and Hyper-V server. I mentioned in passing
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:15 PM

Boot from VHD – the joy of BCDedit and a nice hyper-v gotcha or two.

I’ve been updating two of my machines from the Beta to the RC of Server 2008 R2. It’s been quite a learning experience, and I’ve put together a video to show some of the things that Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 can do with VHDs which should be posted
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:49 PM

A Windows 7 tip for (untidy) presenters

Do you have lots of icons on your windows desktop ? I do. And sometimes when I’m giving a presentation I think not only do they look untidy, there might be something given away by the icon and file name. The fix for that is to create a folder named “my
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:39 PM

Customizing the Windows 7 logon screen: no additional tools required

A few of people have noticed that I’m running Windows 7 with a customized logon screen, and a couple of them asked me if I used “logon studio” which (as I understand it) rummages round inside some of the image resources buried in DLL files. In Windows
Posted by jamesone | 11 Comments
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:28 PM

Windows 7 for everyone !

I don’t normally cut and paste things from mail straight to my blog but this arrived in ready to read format so here it is The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to download for everyone , and is available until June 2009 to download. Download
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Monday, May 04, 2009 3:31 PM

Windows 7 XP mode: helpful ? Sure. Panacea ? No.

ComputerWorld have an interesting piece up about XP Mode for Windows 7. Saying that it “could create support nightmares, analysts said today” They quote Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft as saying “I think that this will help the uptake
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Sunday, May 03, 2009 3:16 PM

Virtual Windows XP … picking myself up off the floor.

Someone gave me a definition of insanity as “trying the same thing over and over again expecting different results”.  I guess trying something you expect to fail is somewhere between insanity and scientific thoroughness. Anyhow, that’s how I came
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:33 PM

Exploring Windows XP mode for Windows 7

Windows Virtual PC is on Technet for people to download, the Windows Virtual PC  page says it will be available to everyone on May 5th, but the  evaluation guide is available already I’ve installed it and started to play. I’ve only got one application
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:20 PM

Easy transfer is not a sign of weakness

Someone from the office (no names, no pack drill) told me they had read my post from yesterday where I mentioned Windows Easy Transfer.  They felt that it might not be quite the done thing for a technical person to use it but since I was using it
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 11:49 AM

Clarifying: the new virtual PC, Windows XP mode for Windows 7, and MED-V

There is an interview with Scott Woodgate,  published as  press release on press pass   entitled Helping Small Businesses With Windows 7 Professional and Windows XP Mode. After starting to speculate about this a little too soon, I want
Posted by jamesone | 7 Comments
Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:15 PM

Now available on Technet and MSDN – RC of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

Hopefully the title is self evident. The servers are taking a real pasting right now, so you might find it best to give it a little while for things to calm down Now if you want to install machines quickly you can copy the contents of the DVD to a BOOTABLE
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