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• Virtual Tech Days Sep 08 – Managing Windows Vista using Windows Powershell

  Hi, I am Ranjana Jain ( http://ranjanajain.spaces.live.com ) . I was one of the presenters at the recently held Virtual Tech Days from Microsoft. I presented two sessions – a. Managing Windows Vista using Windows Powershell and b. A look at the performance... Posted Oct 10 2008, 04:40 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Powershell, XP, SP1

• Getting my bits in a twist

  This week I installed a new Windows Vista virtual machine in Hyper-V.  I installed the OS, added it to the domain, then realised that I had not added the integration services for the guest OS.  Launching the install for them gave me the following... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:04 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, SP1, Hyper-V

• Uninstalling the uninstall

  Windows Vista is a pretty big install, and then when you add to it the install of Service Pack 1, it becomes even bigger.  So, once you have been running Service Pack 1 for a while, you can safely remove the uninstall files for the Service Pack. ... Posted May 28 2008, 03:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, SP1

• Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Virtual 'Roundtable'

  Do you want to join in with an interactive live virtual roundtable session with Mark Russinovich about Windows Vista Service Pack 1? He'll be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable which will be broadcast live over the Internet on Wednesday, March... Posted Feb 21 2008, 11:56 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, SP1

• How To: Create a Vista SP1 Image Using ImageX.exe and WIM Files

  My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new deployment tools that come with Vista to create an SP1 Vista image.  He makes it sound so easy!  * it actually is*  The coolest part of the entire... Posted Feb 14 2008, 02:24 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Tips, Tools, Cool, IT, SP1, ServicePack, HowTo

• Deploying Vista SP1.

  For the last year I have been saying that the mentality of waiting for a Service pack is a way of thinking which belongs to the 1990s (wait 6 months might make sense, but a service pack is not the milestone it was). Still, SP1 has released and whilst... Posted Feb 12 2008, 08:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Deployment, How to, Service Pack, SP1

• All You Need To Know About Vista SP1

  TechNet Resource for Windows Vista SP1   Share this post: Read More... Posted Jan 21 2008, 06:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Tips, Microsoft, resources, SP1, ServicePack

• Windows Server 2008 RC1, ForeFront and System Center Demo Kit, SQL 2008 November CTP, and Service Pack Blocker Tool

  Thursday was a busy day at Microsoft.  RC1 for Longhorn is now out and available for download.  To read up on some analysis about the update, check out James O'Neill's post . Going over to the other side of the "pond," Keith Combs... Posted Dec 07 2007, 05:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Exchange, Windows, Tips, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, OS, resources, SP1, Laundry List, ServicePack

• *CORRECTION* Vista Search Annoyance

  I received some emails regarding my article on a Vista Search bug . The article stated that the bug would be fixed in SP1, but it was unclear on what settings would change. The original article read, "As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the... Posted Sep 06 2007, 04:10 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Search, Windows, Microsoft, OS, SP1, correction, doh!

• Vista Desktop Search Annoyance

  I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of... Posted Sep 04 2007, 12:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Search, Windows, Tips, Microsoft, Tools, SP1