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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 that point I though: This is what I am going to try next week. and I did. I have it running now ...

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 and surfing on the web brought me to the this site. It looks like the online brother for ...

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 technology in the client operating system. I am very curious in what timeframe this is to be ...

while reading up on some mail and feeds, I ran into this little gem here: a Sidebar gadget to keep track of your Hyper-V machines (on several parents…) http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx

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 versions, i decided in all my wizdom to name the domain Appvirt.45 and most of you will see the ...

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 physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore" Knowing this for ...

After I installed the K-Lite Codec pack, I sometimes get this Avi Chunk Viewer window at the most annoying times possible. It seems this is caused by a codec called Avi splitter. It pops up when there is an avi found with an incomplete footer. To remove the Avi Chunk Viewer, do the following: 1. Start the K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool, located in ...

In this Blogpost, the terminal server team explains the reasons why the /console switch has disappeared and what the replacement /admin does for you.

AHUM, may I please urge you guys to backup your boot configuration when installing a New version of f.i. Server 2008 on a dual boot system... I got it working again, and it took me not too much time, but..... EasyBCD did a lot for me today. (And in the process I saw that there is a way of backing up the bootconfig from this tool.)

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 a new machine with a dual boot with my vista x64) I entered the DVD, booted from it, installed ...