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Microsoft P2V tool released

by Nicolas Blank 10 November 2010 Desktop

This week is a time to talk about most things virtual. Microsoft recently released it’s own P2V, i.e. Physical to Virtual Migration tool to assist with Windows 7 deployment, allowing you to P2V your old Windows XP environment into your new Windows 7 deployment, should you need to run a critical app that would only [...]

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Boot from a VHD in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

by Andrew Herron 30 June 2010 Desktop

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 allow you to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) that you can make bootable. This is particularly useful when needing to create a dual boot system and does not require having to partition your Hard Disk Drives (HDD). First of all you will need to create the VHD. The [...]

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Windows 7 SP1 due in July

by Robby Pedrica 9 June 2010 Desktop

Microsoft anounced a public beta of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 at TechEd in New Orleans this week. Yes that’s right – the same package is used to update both platforms due to them using the same kernel. While Windows 7 doesn’t gain any new functionlity from this update, Server 2008 R2 [...]

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Interesting new product from Seagate

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

This just appeared in my Inbox and appears to be quite compelling:  It’s a new HDD from Seagate that combines an SSD with a traditional spinning HDD platter.  The drive combines the speed of SSD with the lower cost of traditional drives by monitoring usage and automatically moving the most used data to the SSD. [...]

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Useful browser security check link

by Peter Johnson 24 May 2010 Desktop

In my day to day operations and learning process I came across the following useful link from the team at Mozilla i.e. the Firefox people:   http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/   This link checks on all of the browser plugins installed on you machine and informs you whether or not they are up to date.   It works [...]

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Troubleshooting Printing Problem

by Peter Johnson 28 April 2010 Desktop

New Mark Russinovich Article   Here’s a link an interesting article on troubleshooting Printing problems:   http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2010/04/12/3324570.aspx Share this post:

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Office 2010 is available for Download

by Nicolas Blank 22 April 2010 Anouncements

Just a quick note to mention that if you’re a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, you can download office 2010 RIGHT NOW. How do I know? I’m busy doing it, downloading the 64 bit versions of Office, Project and Visio 2010. Share this post:

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What is Linux?

by Robby Pedrica 21 April 2010 Desktop

A recent posting on the Blog of Helios prompted me to write a short and simple definition of Linux that might be useful for current non-users of this operating system. It is however a difficult definition in the context of what people already know. And the fact of the matter is that what the general [...]

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Offline Folders not Working in Windows 7 and SBS

by Andrew Herron 2 February 2010 Desktop

I had the above issue yesterday. The folders had been redirected to the server, however the user was unable to create new files and folder, nor could the user edit existing files when offline. I discovered that a Group Policy Object had been created and linked to the Domain. The purpose of the Group Policy [...]

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Canon EOS Application Issue

by Andrew Herron 1 February 2010 Desktop

I had an interesting problem today regarding a Canon EOS camera and Windows 7 Ultimate x64. The problem was that the Canon EOS application would not download images from the camera to a redirected My Documents folder. To fix this particular issue I mapped a drive to \\servername\sharename. I then set the Canon EOS application [...]

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