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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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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 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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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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Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:20 PM

Follow vs Post: What’s the Payback for Time Spent on Twitter?

According to my teenager, “twitter is creepy, its just stalking. I mean the button you push says follow”! Duh!.” Yet, some in the business press in the US say Microsoft should buy Twitter . Hrmm… Microsoft advertises job listings there , Bing integrates
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:06 AM

Jim DuBois on Virtualization

Microsoft IT General Manager Jim Dubois shares info about virtualization inside Microsoft in this short (4 minute) video.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:27 PM

Dunbar’s Number and Wikiality

Dunbar’s number is said to be about 150. The new book Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape our Lives , advocates, among other things, that human nature will correct Wikiality to more closely reflect reality. Now, there
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:49 AM

“Xmas Came Early!”: Free Risk Tracker 1.0 Tool from Microsoft

The customer-focused information security team have released the free-as-in-beer Risk Tracker 1.0 on Codeplex. This sample app (did I mention it was free?) helps the Microsoft Information Security Team track information security risk across the company.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:09 AM

Hyper-V How To: Download Free Win7 VHD

The free VHD program now includes Windows 7 free-as-in-beer VHD for your testing, hobby and POC pleasure. The fine print: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is required to use this virtual machine In addition to the system requirements for Windows Server 2008
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