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Monday, August 11, 2008 7:25 PM

Programming Hyper-V with WMI and C# - Getting Started

You may have seen from a recent post that I received a new laptop that was capable of running Hyper-V. Well, it's all fully installed and working, so I thought I might blog about it a bit. There are plenty of existing blogs on Hyper-V, so I thought I

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Filed under: Programming, Do Try This at Home, Virtualisation, Server 2008

Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:10 AM

Vista, Server 2008 and the Case of the Bitlocker Dual Boot

This week, I received my shiny new work laptop, which I'd been anticipating for some time. Normally, I'm not much of a hardware geek and don't get overly excited with new kit, but I was really looking forward to this as it is 64-bit and finally

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Filed under: Do Try This at Home, Windows Vista, Server 2008, Security

Friday, August 17, 2007 11:48 AM

Forcing Theme Settings in Windows Vista

Recently I was working with a customer to find a way to automate forcing a specific Aero theme in Windows Vista. The idea was to have the Vista clients "colour-coded" according to their use; so whenever a user logs on the window border colour would indicate

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Filed under: Do Try This at Home, Windows Vista

Friday, April 13, 2007 2:30 AM

(Re-)Start Me Up ...

As I mentioned in a recent post , I'm currently working on a Windows Vista workshop. As part of that, I've created a simple application that demonstrates the basic interaction of the Windows Installer with Vista's new Restart Manager (RM). I thought I'd