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21 April 2006
Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting
I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses Read More...
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07 April 2006
Windows Vista Webcasts Next Week
Just seen the list of webcasts for next week - there's a couple on the list worth mentioning. All times are PST (add 8 hours for UK time) Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Windows Vista for the Enterprise (Level 200) Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:30 Read More...
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27 January 2006
IT Forum Highlights in Reading
For those of you who were unable to attend IT Forum 2005 in November, a quick reminder that there are two full-day events re-running some of the most popular content. This will be held on the Microsoft Campus in Reading. The registration links are below Read More...
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31 October 2005
Bizarre Weekend Stuff - Halloween came early
Ghosts in the machine. Literally. I'm helping out at the Oracle User Group in Birmingham tomorrow and Wednesday (yes, it's also running today), and was planning on demonstrating some of the features in the latest Windows Vista build. However, on Sat morning, Read More...
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01 September 2005
Windows Vista Fast User Switching on domain joined machines
Woohoo!!! I'm suddenly one very happy person. The killer feature I've been hoping to see in Windows XP Pro is present in Windows Vista Beta 1. No guarantees for the future, but it shows the boys in Redmond have the capability. Here's what it is and why Read More...
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23 August 2005
Vista Beta 1 and Smartcard Readers - USB may be a better option?
For connecting to the Microsoft Corporate Network over VPN, we use connection manager and SmartCards. I've got two PCMCIA smartcard readers, one for each laptop, made by GemPlus. One is the standard GemPlus PC reader, and the other is a GemPlus 400 model. Read More...
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18 August 2005
Vista Beta 1 Sound Setting
I've been playing with Vista Beta 1 over the past few days, and although I can get it working reasonably well on my Dell Latitude D600, I've pretty much given up on my Dell 5160. Unfortunately, there's no LDDM drivers available to enable Aero Glass on Read More...
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28 July 2005
Windows Vista Beta 1 Available for download
UPDATE: 9th June 2006. Windows Vista Beta 2 download information Now available for download, if you want to get your hands on Beta 1 of the "Longhorn" client (now obviously called Windows Vista), it's available to both MSDN and Technet plus subscribers Read More...
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23 March 2005
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Release Candidate is now available
Someone made a more appropriate choice of name (thankfully!) given some of the alternatives which have been on the table over the past few months. The next version of SUS (Software Update Services) will be officially called Windows Server Update Services Read More...
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11 November 2004
MSN Search (UK) Beta Launch
The beta of MSN (UK) Search went live today. This is a huge investment on the part of Microsoft, and worth a look. I've been trying it out this evening and have found it great. Click here to try Read More...
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