blog community

Browse by Tags

• Anything else
• AppVirt
• Courses
• Future Stuff
• Hyper-V
• Longhorn
• Server 2008 R2
• SoftGrid
• TechEd-ITForum
• Virtual Server
• VPC
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn)
• WSv

• Boot your machine from VHD

  Last week at TechEd Barcelona, one of the coolest things we saw was the session from Mark Russinovich on the new stuff in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, where he showed that with the new OS the boot mechanism allows for booting from vhd file. at Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:49 AM by Eric Denekamp | 6 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, TechEd-ITForum, Future Stuff, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2

• Vista Unattended setup answer files

  most of the people that installed XP saw or have used the unattend file creation tool. A little gem for sysadmins who want clean installs, but who do not want to do the click here type there scenario. For Vista there is no such thing on the DVD. reading Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:50 PM by Eric Denekamp | 1 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general

• Hyper-V in Vista announced

  Steve Ballmer announced at the Gartner conference last week that there will be modifications in Vista to add Hyper-V to the system. Hyper-V willa lso integrate further into Server 2008. Microsoft will not wait for Windows 7 to integrate the Hypervisor Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:04 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Future Stuff, Windows Server 2008, WSv, Hyper-V, Windows 7

• Nice going, Vista!

  I am working on the new beta of Microsoft Application Virtualization. I downloaded the 4.5 latest beta. I decided to build myself a new environment in Hyper-V and decided to build a DC server 2003 R2 SP2 and a Vista Business client. to separate several Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 11:59 AM by Eric Denekamp | 1 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Future Stuff, SoftGrid, AppVirt

• Security problem or not

  In this video someone is presenting "a vista hack": http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html in this article there are the 10 Immutable Laws of Security, look at rule #3 where it states: "If a bad guy has unrestricted Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 3:09 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general

• New Terminal Services switch /Admin

  In this Blogpost , the terminal server team explains the reasons why the /console switch has disappeared and what the replacement /admin does for you. Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:58 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Future Stuff, Windows Server 2008

• OUCH

  eager to get the new Hyper-V working after two weeks of frustration that I got my hands on it, and not being able to get it installed because of the lack of available hardware, I installed the RC1 escrow build this afternoon. (Maybe you recall me having Read More... Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 3:40 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Future Stuff, Windows Server 2008, Longhorn, WSv, Hyper-V

• Dreamscene is final

  For those of you that use Windows Vista Ultimate and want to use your GPU and CPU a little more: Dreamscene is final and downloadable for you. Now you can have your much wanted animated desktops, your favorite moviescenes as the background of your work Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:05 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general

• The real RC0 is here

  It has arrived: the RC0 build of Windows Server 2008. Just as the first version of the beta of Vista SP1. I have my work cut out for me now. I am already downloading RC0, SP1 of vista will have to wait, I am teaching today and tomorrow, so no time to Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:05 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Future Stuff, Windows Server 2008

• Mandatory Integrity Mechanism

  What was used to be called Mandatory integrity Control is now called Windows Integrity Mechanism . for those of you who want to know more abpout it, on the MSDN library there is very nice information on this subject... And this time it's dev AND ItPro.... Read More... Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 7:49 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Windows Server 2008, Longhorn

• Nice example of readyboost at work

  I have been working with my machine for a long time now, so readyboost and Superfetch are nicely tuning my system now. i added a 1GB memory stick to the system. Just now I was running groove with a lot of workspaces and Outlook. then I decided to start Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 1:55 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Longhorn

• Virtual server 2005 R2 SP1 and Vista

  I got questions in my courses on How to install Virtual Server 2005 on Windows VISTA.it is just a question of having the right list of options to check with IIS. Here you see the options I checked, leave one out, and the installation will not proceed. Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 2:23 PM by Eric Denekamp | 2 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Virtual Server

• Vista's UAC Warnings Can't Be Trusted, Symantec Says

  reading on it says: you can manipulate the color of the warning to the point that it looks like windows itself created the warning. This sounds evil. but reading on: <SNIP> "The most likely scenario is that a user gets compromised by malicious code, Read More... Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 2:17 PM by Eric Denekamp | 4 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn)

• SQL 2005 SP2 and Vista

  While installing SQL server 2005 for demo purposes, I ran into this screen: sounds like they fixed some nice things here... I do hope It will not turn out a security hole. Read More... Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 12:42 PM by Eric Denekamp | 2 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general

• DreamScene is here

  this morning the first version of dreamscene was released for Windows Vista Ultimate users. I downloaded it and it is very subtle: at first glance I did not see anything different on my desktop and than al of a sudden: darn those lightbeams are moving... Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:10 PM by Eric Denekamp | 4 Comments Filed under: Vista, Microsoft general, Future Stuff