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14 February 2006
Domain joined Windows Vista with Media Centre is coming to town (maybe)

OK, so it's early days yet and anything can change, so this is absolutely not the final word, but several months ago when playing with early Windows Vista builds, I was encouraged that fast user switching on domain-joined Windows Vista machines with Media 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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19 September 2005
Scripting with Monad

Monad is definitely a hot topic to watch in the future. I've just discovered that Jeffrey Snovers two webcasts about Monad are available for on-demand viewing. If you want to find out more about the future of command line scripting, these are a good place 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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30 July 2005
IE7 Easter Egg

Easter eggs in Microsoft software are these days unfortunately very few and far between - however, this potential one in the Internet Explorer 7 beta seemed a little extreme. Kudos to the development team, and even more so for someone finding it!!! Read More...

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11 February 2005
Windows Server 2003 as a client, MSN Toolbar Suite and Orca

I'm going to have eat a few of my own words now... I blogged in December about the "IT Pro" way of getting an unsupported program to install on a Windows Server box without a hint of an SDK in site. I relent, the Orca tool is the best tool for the job, Read More...

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01 February 2005
The future of the Windows-centric IT Pro?

I looked at Monad briefly a couple of months ago - after all it's still a reasonably long way off yet, probably in the Longhorn timeframe. However, there's been a couple of articles just posted on the Internet looking at the future of "shell scripting" Read More...

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