Archive for May 6th, 2008
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So I build a new Windows XP ISO with SP3 integrated, this is a Volume License editions (VOL) which only accepts Volume License Keys (VLK). When I want to install it on a clean machine, I noticed that setup prompts for a product key and it does not allow me to continue, which should be a
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May
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IT hosting vendor Rackspace is launching a cloud storage offering, providing storage over the Internet similar to Amazon's S3 service.
Rackspace specializes in providing IT infrastructure as a service, giving customers access to servers and storage located at eight Rackspace data centers worldwide. With CloudFS, an offering in beta mode from Rackspace's Mosso division, the
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May
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If you want automating the install of Exchange 2007 SP1, here’s a script written by Robert Gillies, that let you build Exchange 2007 labs. The goal of this exercise was to have a single script that could be run on a given machine, and based on the server naming convention install the appropriate roles and possibly make
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May
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If by now you still don’t understand what Microsoft’s Live Mesh is, then let this short 60-seconds promotional video originally featured at the Web 2.0 Expo explain it to you in ultra-slow-motion.
While you’re at it, see if you can spot and name all the third party products and brands. All I can say there’s a-plenty. Bonus points for identifying the model of the car.
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May
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To put a lid on bloggers' speculation about police getting "backdoors" to Windows security, Microsoft is starting to hush up on the subject. In an e-mail to BetaNews on Friday, a spokesperson described COFEE as a "customizable framework."
Despite releasing a few more facts on Friday about a controversial new tool for police officers, Microsoft has now vowed to stay mum on the "exact methods" used by COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor), as well as about what kinds of passwords -- OS or network, for example -- COFEE might be able to crack.
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May
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A number of third-party blogs are telling people they can speed up Windows Update downloads, and file copy operations, by turning off the Remote Differential Compression (RDC) feature on Windows Vista. This is 100% false. Neither Windows Update or file copy operations use RDC at all.
The RDC feature is simply a DLL that does
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May
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The previous post discussed the differences in processor functionality provided by Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) checkbox. You probably want to read through that in order to get the necessary background to understand this final instalment.
In this post I discuss how you can determine:
If your operating system is running on a hypervisor,
The processor feature differences presented
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May
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At the SSPA Best Practices 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that it has further enhanced its online self-service and internal support tool, Microsoft Automated Service Agent (ASA), with a variety of new features. Powered by Microsoft’s natural language technology, ASA is a hosted solution that allows customers to interact in a chat-style session and
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May
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Google AdSense blog reports, that they’ve integrated Custom Search Engine (CSE) into AdSense for search, so you can take advantage of CSE's most popular features without having to leave your AdSense account.
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May
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How much planning do you put into your Organizational Unit, or OU, structure? If you're like many administrators, probably not enough. Too many administrators underestimate the importance and complexity of a well-designed OU structure. It is something that needs to be tailored
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May
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While Live Mesh is not nearly feature complete, not even in beta until later in the year, there are some features that would be really helpful, like knowing how far along a synch to the cloud has progressed. Currently there is no way to find that out using the Live Mesh client, but as our friend
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May
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Raymond Chen, the Microsoft coder, explains that you don't need a whole 260KB program to automatically delete empty subdirectories. You can create a single line batch file that will do exactly what you're looking for:
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May
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Google Readernow lets you share contents on the web with newly added bookmarklet button “Share”. Here are a few new ways you can add and share interesting things in Reader:
Share anything with a bookmarklet - Just drag this link from the Notes page up to your browser's bookmark bar and
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May
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Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.
With the new security feature - slated to take effect Tuesday - people who search the Internet using Yahoo will see a red exclamation point and a warning next to links McAfee
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May
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This post discusses, Windows XP SP3 Build 5512 and how it’ll work with the various released versions of Internet Explorer.
Windows XP SP3 contains some new updates, and a number of bug fixes and security improvements. You can learn more about XPSP3 features by reading the white paper located here. We expect XPSP3 will be publicly available shortly
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