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August 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:25 PM

Prepopulating Windows Experience Index (WEI, a.k.a. WinSAT) numbers in Windows 7

In Windows Vista, the first time the operating system booted up it would run through a series of performance tests to calculate the machine’s Windows Experience Index score, and it would use these numbers to determine what operating system features such
Posted by mniehaus | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:12 PM

Speaking at TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand

I’ll be speaking at TechEd Australia (September 8-11 in Gold Coast) and TechEd New Zealand (September 14-16 in Auckland) on the usual deployment-related topics.  For those of you in the area, please seek me out and say hi.  (I might be a little
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Friday, August 21, 2009 7:55 PM

New Intel iaStor driver available

Many of you have been “challenged” by this driver: when you import it into the MDT Deployment Workbench, it says that it supports both “x86” and “x64” platforms, when really each download supports one or the other.  With the latest release that Intel
Posted by mniehaus | 2 Comments
Friday, August 07, 2009 2:05 AM

Windows AIK for Windows 7 is available for download

Grab it from the download center via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34 .  (Remember that the new USMT 4.0 bits are included in Windows AIK too.)
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