Google Chrome Notebook–How to remain calm, despite what’s about to happen to your Chrome Notebook
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Windows Thin PC Release Candidate Now Available
I’m pleased to announce the Release Candidate (RC) for Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is now available for download from the WinTPC RC site. It’s been a busy month for the Windows Thin PC team. Since the launch of the Windows Thin PC Community Technology Preview (CTP) program on March 28 we have seen tremendous interest in the product with thousands of downloads of the software. So, we would like to take this opportunity to recognize our enthusiastic community of well over 12,000 customers and partners who have signed up for the Technology Preview program. Thank you for helping us to create a great product! Please keep sending us your suggestions; it is valuable as we continue our software development.
Many of you have been inquiring as to when the product will be available to customers outside the CTP Program. I’d like to take the opportunity to announce that we plan to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) within this quarter (Q2 CY2011). Windows Thin PC will be made available as an SA benefit, and customers with active SA or Windows VDA on their Windows PCs will be able to deploy Windows Thin PC to their environments after RTM. For more information on Windows Thin PC, check out the FAQ.
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Backup Exec, Volume Shadow Copy, Permissions etc
| Ok, long story short, it all started with a Backup Exec 12.0 job suddenly failing.. One part of the whole job is backuping Exchange Server 2007 using a remote agent and the exchange server. In the job log of Backup Exec, i got a ‘Final error: 0xe000fed1 – A failure occurred querying the Writer status. ‘ ok, initially i thought, this is nothing new.. querying the writer status and seeing what this one’s reporting .. |  |
Microsoft Releases Beta of DaRT 7 Recovery Tool
This week I had a chance to sit down with Brad McCabe, the product manager for DaRT (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset). DaRT has been a favorite tool for many IT Pros, dating back to its days as part of Winternals Admin Pack. DaRT has continued to evolve since then but it’s still focused on helping IT Pros easily recover PCs that have become unstable, rapidly diagnose probable causes of issues, and quickly repair unbootable or locked out systems, all faster than the average time it takes to reimage the machine.
Customer can sign up for that Beta today here. Larger customers wanting to deploy DaRT 7 now can email us at dart7ct@microsoft.com to find out if they qualify to join the DaRT TAP program. The TAP program will allow them deep interaction with the product team and assistance in deploying and testing DaRT 7 in their production environment today.
IT Pros can learn more about MBAM (content coming soon) as well as DaRT, AGPM, AIS and the rest of the tools in MDOP in the MDOP Zone on the Springboard Series on TechNet.
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Windows 7 Search does not work anymore
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The search box in start menu stopped working. The search from windows explorer works fine, just the start menu does not work. All it returns is: |
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How to: Run a cmd under system account / gain access to system account
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There is an account in Microsoft Windows that is more powerful than the Administrator account in Windows Operating Systems. That account is called System account it is similar to the root OR super user in the Linux/Unix world . I will show you how to access this system account in this article. |
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Windows Installer / MSI: DebugView for Windows
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DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don’t need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs. |
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Mac OS X: Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
| This KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often leave a trail of these files scattered throughout the filesystem when "visiting" a Windows computer. Even with this hint in place, the .DS_Store files will continue to be created on local volumes (which is a good thing). |  |
VMware: Updating / Patching ESX Server
| Okay, VMware patch day .. or, patch weekend. There’s this VMware update Service.. but we’ll take esxupdate – ‘the long way home’? not necessarily! |  |
VMware ESX / Virtual Center – Extend Virtual Disk
| Ok, I’ve already written about extending a virtual disk in VMware ESX Server / Virtual Center here. I spent the last view hours exactly for that task… |
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