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It just does not get any easier than this. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (Sysinternals gurus extraordinaire) have just published another amazingly useful (and free!) tool: Disk2vhd, which uses the power of Volume Shadow Copy Service(VSS) to
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If you do demonstrations or webcasts from your computer, used the desktop screen sharing feature on Office Communicator 2007 R2 , or asked for remote assistance you may have inadvertently shown your desktop to your co-workers, a client, or the world.
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If you are a long term Windows user, you right-click everything. That right-click menu offers a lot of options, and it is comforting to see everything that you can do at any given time. Heck… you can often Shift-right-click and get even MORE
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I’ve been waiting for this guide for a while (‘cause that’s how I roll), but if you are interested in guidance on when/how to use Active Directory in your perimeter network, the AD team has released a guide for that: Active Directory Domain Services in
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If you are like me, you haven’t fired up WordPad since somewhere around 1998. It has virtually no functionality at all. Except… now it does. I was listening to Windows Weekly , and Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte mentioned that WordPad is significantly
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If you are in charge of maintaining the security baseline at your company, you know that there are two key problems you face. First of all, there are a LOT of security settings to tweak within Windows. The services you harden and lock down
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If you love technology, Windows Vista, and live in one of the following locations, you can be a Windows Guru! W Hollywood CA Los Angeles CA Downey CA Hawthorne CA Torrance CA Pasadena CA Burbank CA Rancho Cucamonga CA West Covina CA Chula Vista CA San
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AWESOME news… two of the smartest people I have ever met are starting up a blog on Windows 7, and the engineering that has gone into it. Steven Sinofsky is the Senior Vice President of the Window Engineering team, and was responsible for the masterpiece
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I was playing around with Trika's skydrive (wait a minute, that sounded better in my head)... and see that she has uploaded three very nice looking posters showing the various courses, tests and certifications available for SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio
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Just a random bit of knowledge to share here :) If you open the Advanced Attributes of a folder (right-click on it, choose properties, then click Advanced...), you have the option at the bottom of the window to either compress the contents to save disk
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The latest version of the links below can be found here , or download a PDF version here . Don't ask me where they got that US-Army-looking-font in the PDF... it probably wouldn't have been my first choice ;) Group Policy Documentation Essentials These
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One of the best parts of working at Microsoft is the amazing discussions and debates that take place on our internal Discussion Lists. A few months ago, the greatest security minds at Microsoft were undergoing a hot and heavy debate on Security by Obscurity
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Aaaaah... to come full circle. Microsoft's OSs started at the command line, went GUI, and you can now do more from then command-line than ever before. Between PowerShell , the Windows Command Reference , and now the Netsh Technical Reference
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Although the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) has been around since 2005 (it shipped with Windows Server 2003 R2, is present in SBS 2003 R2), I have yet to meet anyone (even hard-core Admins) who have even heard of it. It is an excellent tool to have
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If you are a sysadmin, you probably spend more time at the command line than the average user. If you have been looking for a handy reference as to the commands and syntax you can use, the Windows Command Reference will come in handy. Commands are listed
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