December 2006 - Posts
Hack Vista's ReadyBoost
Hope everyone had a great holiday. Mine was outstanding! I always love giving more than getting but my wife always amazes me because I am so hard to shop for and yet she always gets me something great, usually more than one thing. Below is a hack on how to enable ReadyBoost in Vista on devices that may not be quite fast enough to be supported. Source . Windows ReadyBoost is a great technology, caching...
Live Drive and Windows Server Home Edition - Confirmed
A Microsoft employee was a little too quick to post some not so public information yesterday and it was gobbled up in no time. It looks like Bill will announce Live Drive and Windows Home Server at CES next month. I was under the impression that Live Drive had already been confirmed, but I guess I was wrong. In any event, it looks like it has been now. But this was the first I had heard of Windows...
Finally! How to Keep Your Hands Warm at Your Desk!
For those that have met me, I don’t have a lot of insulation, see my mug shot on the right. Several of the offices I have had over the years have also had others that were not as insulation challenged as I. And since temperature control is not an office by office feature I have had, I would usually end up losing the argument on the thermostat based on shear numbers. Compound that with the fact...
How to Troubleshoot Advanced Client Install
Very nice info in this KB – Great job guys! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3bEN-US%3b925282 How to troubleshoot Advanced Client Push Installation issues in Systems Management Server 2003 View products that this article applies to. function loadTOCNode(){} Article ID : 925282 Last Review : December 6, 2006 Revision : 1.0 On This Page SUMMARY INTRODUCTION MORE INFORMATION Pre...
No More Coffee - Thank You
On Dec 14th about 10:15 PM PT, I finished my last class at the University of Redlands! On Jan 2nd I start a new job with a new company!!! More on that later. But over the past two years I have been getting up at 4 AM almost every day to work on school work, or my blog, or work – work, which ever was the most behind. I would also drink a very large cup of coffee, which was rather new for me. I...
Gartner Preditcs The End of Blogging and Windows
Gartner usually does some pretty good stuff, but they are kind of like Sony to me, I get that look that can best be described as head tilted to the side, eyebrows closer together, fore head wrinkled, head slightly leaning forward, blinking rate decreases to zero and is then suddenly followed by a rapid succession, and then after a long silence the very profound statement of “Huh?” comes...
Hackers Selling Security Holes
Chris and Rod can correct me if I am wrong but I believe these are referred to as pre-0 day exploits. None the less, makes for some interesting reading. Kind of like putting plutonium on the open market. Source . Hackers Selling Vista Zero-Day Exploit Ryan Naraine - eWEEK Fri Dec 15, 10:41 AM ET Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at...
Print to Your Printer From Anywhere
I know I am not alone in suffering from this frustration before. You are at the library, in class, at work, anywhere but at home on your own network and you want to print something, maybe a rebate form, your taxes, homework, an article on how to upgrade to SMS 2003 SP2, whatever it is you want it printed on your printer at home. So you save it to a USB drive, or you email it and then when you get home...
Inventory Tool for Dell Update v3
A new version of the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is available. This version is required to support the new catalog of updates from Dell. Overview SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is an add-on to SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enables customers to use the SMS 2003 Software Update Management feature to update their Dell servers. Customers will be able to deploy BIOS, firmware...
KB 925282 - How to Troubleshoot Advanced Client Push Install Issues in SMS 2003 - Pulled?
This came up on my RSS feed for KB Alertz, but then it says it was pulled by Microsoft? So I thought well, I’ll repost by Visio diagram of the process which includes troubleshooting. This is just a jpeg, if you would like a copy of the Visio digram send me an email and I will send it out to you. Anthony Clendenen '> Listen to this article
Getting Started in PowerShell
I have used VBScript quite a bit in the past and I am very familiar with it but this morning I was doing something in VBS and thought to myself I really need to start to learn PowerShell. So I did some information gathering and thought I would compile it and share my info. Below is a list of links including, downloads, books, guides, development tools, webcasts, blogs, and bookmarks. The PowerShell...
Run Your Screensaver As Your Deksktop Backgound
I have tired this out on my HP tablet and it works great! Nice work Jason! Make any Screensaver as your desktop Wallpaper You can run a screensaver, ANY screensaver as your Vista Desktop. System impact? Zero. Vista performance impact? Zero. So, are you ready to give it a try? It involves a bit of a hack. But if you are the farthest thing from a Windows power user, you can do the same thing via an application...
Still Waiting on FIOS!
Source . The NFL today announced that they'll be testing the delivery of live Thursday and Saturday night games over the Internet to Verizon Fios customers. The NFL will be testing the system internally during this Thursday's Ravens Bengals game, with broader deployment on December 6 if everything works out. Traditionally the NFL has been significantly behind Major League Baseball when it came to giving...
WAIK User Guides Released
This download contains four files, the getting_started_itpro.rtf, readme_WAIK.rtf, unattend.chm, and waik.chm. In the Getting Started guide, they cover the “end-to-end deployment scenario”, which includes building a lab, building an answer file (unattend.xml), building a master installation (reference computer), creating and deploying an image. The readme has more updates to the getting started guide...
Use ImageX without installing WAIK
From Michael Greene’s TechNet blog. Source . Use ImageX without installing WAIK I've heard a few people actually say ImageX.exe is included with Vista. That's not technically accurate. ImageX is most certainly a value add to Vista but it is packaged separately in a download called "WAIK" or Windows Automated Installation Kit . So let's say you want to use ImageX but don't want to run the full...
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