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Friday, October 30, 2009 10:23 AM

How to: Set Bing Images as Your Desktop Wallpaper

CodePlex has a nifty free-as-in-beer app that sets your desktop wallpaper with the Bing daily image. Salty goodness. And Free-as-in-beer.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:56 AM

PowerShell PowerBoots

The good folks at Codeplex, the folks who bring you the free-as-in-beer Hyper-V PowerShell SnapIn also bring you the PowerShell PowerBoots . “ PowerBoots makes it easier for scripters to create graphical user interfaces in PowerShell, exposing much of
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:36 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Baselines for Win7, BL and IE8

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications. Recent updates include
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:02 PM

Hyper-V How To: Test Hosts for Proc Compatibility for VM Migration

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V R2, when a running or a saved state virtual machine is migrated to another virtualization server (also called “host”), the destination server may have a processor with a different set of features. An operating system
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:26 PM

How To: Deploy Windows XP Mode

There’s a new video showing How to Deploy Windows XP Mode . Requisite see alsos: Others who downloaded Window XP Mode IT Pro Deployment Video also downloaded: Deploying Windows XP Mode white paper and scripts Windows XP Mode IT Professional Deployment
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Monday, October 26, 2009 1:37 PM

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

Scientists in Switzerland map the human brain on hallucinogens. Measured this way, all tripper’s brains look the same, yet internally, each drug-takers experience is different and personal… Warning : clicking the link subjects you to a short commercial
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:04 PM

DIY Zune Speakers – the IT Pro Way

John shares how to hack your 12V drill to power you Zune speakers . He also tells How to Detect The Virtualization Layer From Within A Guest .
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:59 PM

Not the Windows 7 Launch Post You Were Expecting

Yesterday I blogged about the awesome new bing search for twitter . You don’t need to follow the tweetstorm to know by now that Windows 7 was released today. I’m with James on this one: today is A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft . Plus, last night
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:51 AM

Download Windows XP Mode

Windows XP Mode is ready for download. Read about Windows XP Mode modes of operation over on the VPC blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windows_vpc/archive/2009/08/27/three-modes-of-windows-xp-mode.aspx
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:00 PM

Bing Does Twitter

Bing.com now searches twitter. Interesting way to keep tabs on the twitterverse chatter about *things you care what people are twittering about*. For example:
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:44 AM

Devs Lead the Way

In the beginning, there was blogs.msdn.com. IT Pro bloggers posted there, because there was no place for IT Pros to blog. Then there was blogs.technet.com. Looks like the devs are leading the way again with the recent update on mdsn.com of “community
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:19 AM

Hyper-V How To: Free Tools for Hyper-V Management

Free-as-in-beer Codeplex help for Hyper-V admins. PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V A project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V Hyper-V Web Manager Hyper-V Web Manager (HVWM) is a web-based management utility for Microsoft
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:15 AM

Free-as-in-beer IT Pro Scripts

There wasn’t a lot of hoopla last month about the launch of Technet Script Center Gallery , but there should have been. 150+ scripts (just in the first month), free-as-in-beer, tagged and sorted and searchable… They even hand you an evergreen top ten
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Friday, October 16, 2009 1:45 PM

Hyper-V How To: Upgrade Hyper-V to Hyper-V R2

KB957256 describes the options that are available for upgrading or migrating from a Windows Server 2008 installation with the Hyper-V role enabled to Windows Server 2008 R2. For Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters that are running virtual machines,
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:20 PM

Free-as-in-beer PowerShellPack

10 modules to help supercharge your Windows PowerShell scripting. The PowerShellPack lets you write user interfaces in PowerShell script, manage RSS feeds, schedule operating system tasks, and much more. Here’s what you get: WPK Create rich user interfaces
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