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Microsoft to patch 26 holes in Windows, Office
Microsoft will patch 26 holes next week, including critical ones in Windows, one affecting the kernel of 32-bit versions and several holes in Office, the company said in a Patch Tuesday preview on Thursday. Five of the 13 bulletins affect vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution and they are rated critical. The bulletins... »
Enable Windows 7 god mode!
Today wile I was surfing I found a nice article on Helmers Blog thats enables you to enable GOD mode for Windows 7. This is cool for every admin. Just follow the next steps: Create a new folder Right click the folder and name it like this : SuperAdmin.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Press Enter. Now the folder has... »
Happy New Year and all the best for 2010
Happy New Year to you all. And thanks to all the readers who supported an read this blog in 2009. Due to personal reasons I didn’t have much time lately to update the blog on a frequent base. The year 2010 is gonna bring us a lots of new and interesting news in the SBC... »
Disk2VHD your laptop in hyper-v :)
Mark Russinovich did it again. He created a real cool tool called Disk2vhd. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that... »
Hyper-V now has 24% of Virtualization Market ?
On Allen Burchill’s blog I found an article where he mentions that Microsoft already should have a 24% market share in the virtualization market. I would like to know where Allen gets his numbers from? 24% for a version 1 Hyper-V product seems to high for me and would be a real tread for VMware. Read... »
Why does WDS 2003 not support multiple unattend.xml ?
Today I had an issue with WDS on a 2003 server. We use WDS for deploying Citrix servers. The customer also wanted to use it for deploying workstations and why shouldn’t he. Since you can make image goups I supposed that it was possible to put a different unattend.xml to every image group. Not of... »
Upgrading to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Frequently Asked Questions
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appvirtualization/cc664494.aspx On this Microsoft website you can find the most FAQ’s asked about migrating to App-V 4.5. So take a look and find out. Tweet This Post »
Exchange 2007 how to migrate correctly!
In the field we experienced some problems with delegates after removing the last 2003 exchange server from the domain. If the client software is older (2000 or 2003) then Outlook 2007 and you delete the last 2003 Exchange server from the domain you are not able to use delegates anymore. This only involves migrations from exchange 2003 to 2007... »
Configuring Windows Server 2008 Server Core Basic Settings
Configuring server 2008 by command shell commands for the real men under us! Configuring an IP address At a command prompt, type the following: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Look at the number shown in the Idx column of the output for your network adapter. If your computer has more than one network adapter, make a note of... »
Windows 2008 Server Core here is the GUI!
On the site http://blogs.microsoft.co.il I found a configurator for the Windows 2008 Core server. If you don’t like to do everything with commandline you can use this tool. But don’t forget Real Men don’t Click:) Features: Product Activation Configuration of display resolution Clock and time zone configuration Remote Desktop configuration Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords) Firewall configuration WinRM... »
