Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Windows Vista » How to   (RSS)
Monday, June 16, 2008 2:19 PM

How I get the server 2008 I want: #3: Vista look and feel

I'll be the first to admit that Servers don't need to have the nice look and feel that we get with Desktop Operating Systems. But since the core of the OS is common to both it is possible. In Windows Server 2003 we had the XP Themes Service and if you
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:28 PM

Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.

I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day". I was talking
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:46 PM

Remote Server Admin tools for Vista

Hard on the heels of the news of management tools for Hyper-V , I find that the folks in Redmond chose a UK public holiday to release all the Admin tools for Windows Vista to manage Servers. The package is described in KB941314 - which doesn't seem to
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:28 PM

Manage Hyper-V from Vista

I nearly leaked this ahead of time; as part of the Release Candidate for Hyper-V we have released a version of of the management console to run on Windows Vista SP1. (No, to the best of my Knowledge we don't have plans of a version which runs on XP or
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:43 PM

Deploying Vista SP1.

For the last year I have been saying that the mentality of waiting for a Service pack is a way of thinking which belongs to the 1990s (wait 6 months might make sense, but a service pack is not the milestone it was). Still, SP1 has released and whilst
Posted by jamesone | 8 Comments
Filed under: ,
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:41 PM

Window borders...

My carbon footprint has got worse: after the travel of the Road-show, I popped up to Leeds last night to talk to BCS. A round trip of 400 miles. While I was there Dave threw me one of those questions... the kind where you know the answer. You know that
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:41 AM

Windows Activation (Server 2008 style)

One of the things we've done with Windows over the years is to try to make life a bit harder for people who pirate it. This isn't just about protecting Microsoft's revenue (or even keeping that revenue out of the hands of criminals) but investigations
Posted by jamesone | 9 Comments
Sunday, August 19, 2007 2:40 PM

I wish I'd known about Get-Eventlog before

Having mentioned Powershell in several recent posts, I said in passing I'd discovered that it had a Get-EventLog cmdlet I also talked about the problems I was having with sleep - or more to the point the machine waking up and running till it crashed,
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:44 PM

Seems like it was software after all... you might want these patches.

I wrote that I blamed the rather odd behaviour my laptop was showing on some kind of hardware fault - possibly the lid switch. However a quick swap of hard-disks with Steve proved that whatever was wrong was on my hard-disk and not on his. So it was software
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Friday, June 01, 2007 10:06 PM

A little bit more about installing Vista - or Server 2008

Matt McSpirit IM'd me a couple of days ago to ask if I'd built a custom Windows Vista installation DVD. And I had to confess that I'd only looked at it briefly - I know Microsoft IT have an image we can burn to a DVD, and I've done about every other install
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:06 PM

ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.

Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Getting a better PDF experience

Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring the technology but hating the way it's used ( Hugh has it right when it comes to flash use ), and getting thoroughly ticked off with PDF. e.g. Microsoft's
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:13 PM

NTBackup - restore for Vista

I'm not quite sure when it appeared, but this evening I noticed a link on the restore dialog box in Vista " Learn how to restore from backups created on Older versions of Windows ", there are 32 and 64Bit versions. I considered using a Virtual Machine
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Monday, April 09, 2007 2:33 PM

Vista Activation update

A while back I posted the diagram below to try to explain how Vista activation worked. Click it for a larger version. There are two entries which are marked "due out in 2007", both of which show up on the Vista Downloads page . For KMS keys we now have
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:34 PM

Network adapter priority in Vista

When I'm in the office I have a network cable on my hot desk and access to wireless networking. There's enough bandwidth available on wireless for most purposes, but for large downloads and software installations wired is greatly preferable. Yesterday
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Filed under: ,
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker