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Greetings Blog Readers, My name is Ed Jolly, and I am a director in the Commercial Technical Support (CTS) organization at Microsoft. I am here to request a few minutes of your time. We would like to learn more about blog readership through a brief survey.
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Via the Windows Home Server Team: The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center ! German, Spanish and French versions will be available
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Q: I’ve installed Windows Vista on my laptop but I do not see hibernation listed in the Shutdown options. How do I enable this? A: During Windows Vista installation, setup looks at your current memory and if the system has 4GB or greater, Windows will
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As you're probably already aware, Hyper-V was released not too long ago. There are a number of resources available to help you with your adoption and support of these new virtualization features in Windows Server 2008. One piece of advice, when doing
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Here on the OEM team, we are often asked storage-related questions about the latest versions of Storport.sys, the iSCSI Initiator, and MPIO. For easy reference, below are the latest available versions of Storport.sys, MPIO, and the iSCSI Initiator as
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In this helpful how to KB from our very own Doug Iman, he decribes at great length what is required to set up dynamic boot partition mirroring on GUID partition table (GPT) disks in Windows Server 2008. This will be increasing helpful in the future as
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If you happen to be debugging and hit the PrtScn / SysRq key on the debugee you may have noticed that this caused the debugger to break in. In certain situations this may not be the desired, thankfully it can be changed. This behavior and the modification
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As is probably well known, Microsoft spends a tremendous amount of time and resources on marketing and education both internally and externally. At times it seems as if only word of mouth and a few more people saying the same thing will drive the message
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There are a number of boot options that can be used in Vista and Windows Server 2008 that can be a pain to modify (or not possible if you are in a bugcheck loop), that can be done on the fly at boot time. These options are invaluable for diagnosing some
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Want to debug the most difficult problems against the largest, most complex piece of software ever written? Are you fluent in C and assembly? Do you carry a spare debugger cable in your bag? Can you represent Microsoft in critical, time sensitive solution
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AutoEnrollment & MMC Enrollment Enrollment Dependencies: The Certificate Template has been published to the Certification Authority. If Service Pack 1 has been installed on the CA and the CA is on a DC: Verify that the CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS group contains,
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Hi, my name is Bob Newhouse and I will be discussing managing group policy with Windows Vista. To start we have added approximately 700 new group policies in Windows Vista and Server 2008\Vista, increasing the granularity of what you can do with group
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Windows Vista has a new tool for investigating and configuring Power Management features. For this discussion, I'll focus on PowerCFG -LastWake feature that is new for Windows Vista. This tool can help diagnose individual, corporation, and Original Equipment
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From a consumer point of view seeing the message, "Internet Explorer has stopped responding" can be frustrating. Fortunately with Windows Vista information is collected about the hang which can be sent to Microsoft for further analysis, however you may
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Hello All, Vista SP1 is here and if you are wondering how Vista SP1 can resolve potential issue on Vista clients connecting to a Distributed File System (DFS) root then allow me to enlighten you by providing the following information. In a nutshell, when
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