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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:44 AM

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 – now available

Get ready to deploy Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 with the newly released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Beta 2. MDT 2010 is the next version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:30 AM

Automating “Boot from VHD” OS Installation

A few weeks ago I did a post on creating a “ Dual Boot From VHD ” environment. In the past couple of days I decided to explore and test a couple of other tools. Both tools are scripts but each took a different approach to automation. The first script
Posted by Keith Combs | 5 Comments
Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:30 PM

TechNet and MSDN Unleashed Webcast: Windows Vista to Windows 7

There is an event next Saturday you might consider watching and listening to.  It’s the first of many Springboard Technology Expert Panel (STEP) events to come.  The STEP program is made up of Microsoft employees, MVPs and MCTs.  This particular
Posted by Keith Combs | 7 Comments
Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:01 AM

Springboard Series – Windows Vista Performance

WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and play
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:59 PM

Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast – Build a Custom Bootdisk

Chris Henley just released a new screencast on his “ Blue ” blog.  This time our master storyteller has created a screencast on Windows PE.  In the screencast Chris shows you how to get up and running in 17 minutes on a topic that’s a bit tricky
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
Monday, August 04, 2008 1:01 PM

Looking for a poor mans Windows Server 2008 backup

I am considering moving to Windows Server 2008 as my full time production environment.  One of the hurdles to doing this has been lifted.  I am referring to the fact that up until recently, Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition didn’t run
Posted by Keith Combs | 11 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:00 PM

WorldWide Telescope – screencast now available

Early this morning I downloaded the new WorldWide Telescope application from Microsoft Research. After exploring the galaxies, I decided this would be a cool screencast to demo the application for those of you that might not otherwise download, install
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): http://msinetpub.vo.llnwd.net/d1/keithcombs/wwtelescope.wmv
Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:24 PM

Firefox Loves Silverlight

One of the questions I get asked all of the time when I demo something in IE is, "Will this work in Firefox ?" It's a really good question especially when using technologies like OWA, web access to admin tools, etc. Recently we shipped a new set of visualization
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:25 PM

Windows Media Center WebGuide

WebGuide allows you to remotely view live and recorded TV programs and to remotely schedule and manage your recorded television programs, music, pictures and videos on your Media Center or Windows Vista PC. Install WebGuide on your Media Center PC and
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 8:27 PM

Spaceworld - taking the NASA tour via Photosynth

You are probably getting ready to see all sorts of blogs posts on this because frankly, Photosynth is very very cool. Photosynth uses hundreds of standard digital camera images to construct a three-dimensional view of an environment or "synth". These
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 9:31 AM

Pick the brains of the Vista Backup team

You should sooo take advantage of this opportunity. The team that brings you Backup, Complete PC and other goodies to Windows Vista is having a chat in a few weeks on 7/10/2007. See http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2007/06/07/mark-your-july-calendars-upcoming-chats-on-backup-recovery-and-offline-files-in-windows-vista.aspx
Posted by Keith Combs | 4 Comments
Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:55 PM

Do Google employees use Windows?

It's always fun to watch reactions to acquisitions . We like to get into those spirited debates about Microsoft employees using competitive products, in public. Give me a break. If I need to use a competing product because it's better, most likely I will.
Posted by Keith Combs | 9 Comments
Friday, May 18, 2007 12:12 PM

Windows Server 2008 screencast - Setup

If you don't have the resources to install and begin using Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 , you have other training options. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be rolling out a bunch of screencasts to give you a great Technical Overview of the product.
Posted by Keith Combs | 4 Comments
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:38 AM

Windows Vista Resource Kit - in the wild

The astute know the Windows Vista Resource Kit is shipping and in the wild. When I arrived at my house Friday, my copy was sitting on the front door step. I'm surprised UPS didn't charge extra for the weight. The resource kit book is huge. 1500+ pages
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Monday, April 02, 2007 11:13 PM

Windows Connections Conference slides posted

Thanks to all of you for coming to the sessions I delivered today in Orlando, Florida. Go Gators. As promised, I have posted the following slide decks: Windows Server code name "Longhorn" Tech Overview Part 1 Windows Server code name "Longhorn" Tech Overview
Posted by Keith Combs | 1 Comments
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