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• Eye-candy in Windows 7 (part 3 of ???)

  While toying around in Windows 7 I started the calculator and to my surprise the interface that we all know has changed. it looks pretty cool. It has now four modes: from left to right: Standard, Scientific, Statistic, Programmer. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:12 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Future Stuff, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Eye-candy in Windows 7 (part 2 of ???)

  When creating the screenshots in the previous post i used the new version of MSPaint. I remember now that I read about the fact that in Windows 7 the ribbon would turn up more. At least it did in MSPaint.exe: Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:12 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Future Stuff, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Eye-candy in Windows 7 (part 1 of???)

  When playing around in Windows 7 I noticed the following: When i hovered over it it showed: the green in the folder button, is nothing more and nothing less than the progress bar of the copy process running. this means that you do not have to pull forward Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:07 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Future Stuff, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Old News about expiring computer accounts in demo/course environments.

  I was talking to a colleague trainer of mine today and we were talking about course images and how they might become “out of sync” with the domain controller. ( basically what happens is: like a user, a computer has a password as well, and if that expires, Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:26 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Courses, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7

• 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

• Windows 7 is here.

  At the PDC conference two weeks ago ISO images from Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 were handed out, they are the M3 build. I had to try this. I saw some nice stuff about it at TechEd last week, so I had to try these. I will post some nice stuff We tried Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:03 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: TechEd-ITForum, Future Stuff, Windows 7

• TechEd ItForum 2008 Barcelona day 0

  Today we were invited to gather for the Proctor instructions, the venue is a known place to me, but the weather is a little bit different than expected, High winds and rain. so the proctors got up early, got in at nign o clock and got instructions. I Read More... Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:12 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, TechEd-ITForum

• 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

• SCVMM 2008 is final.

  http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx confirmes the blogposts I Saw floating around everywhere. for eval purposes: get it here . Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:38 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Server, System Center, WSv, Hyper-V, SCVMM

• Browser stuff

  I was playing around with the two browsers on my system: Google’s Chrome and IE 8 beta 2. I noticed a few tings you might already know, but that I found very valuable for my way of browsing and which I hope both these browsers will support at RTM. I will Read More... Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 2:07 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Future Stuff

• Windows 7

  The news is out, and for what it’s worth: the official name for the next Windows version will be Windows 7 Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:54 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Future Stuff, Windows 7

• MAC problems

  Today I am running a class on HMC 4.5 This class is running on Hyper-V. we ran into the following and I cannot say I am pleased with this: when you create the first machine on a Hyper-V box through the Hyper-V manager, the MAC address will be always the Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:14 PM by Eric Denekamp | 5 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Windows Server 2008, WSv, Hyper-V, SCVMM

• “Dual boot” with one installation of Windows

  As you may have found out by reading this Blog, you’ll know that I am running Windows Server 2008 on my laptop with Hyper-V enabled. up tillnow I always switched  Hard disks to boot into Windows XP with virtual server. I found the loss of performance Read More... Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:56 AM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Server, Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), VPC, Windows Server 2008, WSv, Hyper-V

• I wanna live there…

  Paul Thurrott descibes the  home of the future. (and he has all the pictures to go with it), Or at least Microsofts view to this subject… Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:19 PM by Eric Denekamp | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft general, Future Stuff