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02 December

Microsoft Test Lab Guides

Written by Marco

Recently Microsoft released a lot of Lab Guides for different Microsoft products to test. See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/test-lab-guides.aspx Test Lab Guides Test lab guides (TLGs) allow you to get valuable hands-on experience with new products and technologies using a pre-defined and...

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12 March

Customize the Start Menu Options in Windows 7

Written by Marco

Windows 7 provides excellent control over the Start menu. You can choose which commands appear on the Start menu and how they are arranged. You can add options for Control Panel, Devices And Printers, Network Connections, and other key...

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12 January

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

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This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS. These instructions assume that you have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it. Required:...

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06 January

Configure a User Account to Log On Automatically on Windows 7

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Requiring the user to enter credentials when his computer starts is an important part of Windows security. If a user account automatically logs on, anyone who has physical access to the computer can restart it and access the user’s...

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29 December

Prepare and Service Windows Images Using the New DISM Tool

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Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a new command line tool that you can use to service a Windows image or prepare a Windows PE image. The DISM tool replaces the Package Manager (pkgmgr.exe), PEimg, and Intlcfg tools...

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25 November

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – HOT ISSUES LIST

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A series Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 issues have been reported to Microsoft customer support. From these issues, we figured out several hot issues and authored Knowledge base articles to explain the solutions. To identify and troubleshoot...

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23 November

vSphere Client on Windows 7 now supported

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Last week I posted an articel about running the vSphere client on a Windows 7 workstation. This was a problem, but now after Update 1 for vSphere Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 are now supported.

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19 November

Running VMware vSphere Client on Windows 7

Written by Marco

VMWare has recently launched a work around for the problem of running the vSphere client on a Windows 7 workstations. Link to the document : http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011329

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22 October

The User Profile Service failed the logon.

Written by Marco

Yesterday I received the following error on my Windows 7 x64 Enterprise laptop when I tried to logon. The User Profile Service Failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. Then the logoff message appeared en I was back...

Windows 7, Windows Vista Microsoft 1 Comment

14 October

Create an All-in-one x86+x64 Win7/Vista/Server 2008/R2 USB stick

Written by Marco

One of the great things about the Vista and post-Vista operating systems is that the installer subsystem allows you a great deal of flexibility when it comes to installing multiple operating systems. It is fairly easy to put together...

USB, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Vista Microsoft 2 Comments