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    Windows 7 Product guide

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Rob Margel from Microsoft just posted link to Windows 7 Product gude, 8Mb and 140 pages long, very comprehensive guide which covers (almost) everything you want to know about Windows 7.
    Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmar/archive/2009/09/30/massive-windows-7-product-guide.aspx Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/diTii/windows-7-product-guide
    or just read rest of the entry to get Windows 7 Product guide.
     

    How to promote Windows Server 2008 machine to domain controller – step-by-step guide

    Monday, September 28th, 2009

    Promoting Windows Server machine to domain controller is one of tasks that (almost) every system administrator had done in his life. Using dcpromo tool, promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to domain controller is quite easy, and in this post I will show you how step-by-step promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system to [...]

    Free Hyper-V book

    Sunday, September 27th, 2009

    NetApp offers free Hyper-V book “Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Insider’s Guide to Microsoft’s Hypervisor”, for everyone who register on their website by November 20th, 2009. Book has 384 pages, and it has been written by John Kelbley, Mike Sterling and Allen Stewart. Once registered, you’ll immediately receive Chapter 9. Shipments are limited to U.S. [...]

    Free Online Self Paced Training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

    Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

    Just a short information copied from Microsoft Virtualization User Group blog: Citrix is organizing free online self paced training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. In this course, learners will be introduced to Citrix Essentials™ for Hyper-V™ and gain the knowledge needed to perform basic installation and configuration tasks. Through online simulations, students will install [...]

    How to change SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using sysprep?

    Thursday, September 17th, 2009

    In last post I described how to check SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, today I’ll describe you how to change SID on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 using sysprep. I see many of you are looking how to change SID using NewSID, but New SID is not officially [...]

    How to check your SID using PsGetSid?

    Monday, September 14th, 2009

    As more and more people using virtualization, they face the problems like having two same SIDs on the network. It’s not surprising that the most visited post on this blog is Using NewSid to change SID. NewSid is officially not supported by Microsoft anymore, so your virtual machine who’s SID was changed with NewSid [...]

    Free PowerShell webcasts and resources

    Thursday, September 10th, 2009

    I see many visitors come to this blog by searching for information about PowerShell, and I see they have been (and still are) interested in free Power Shell ebook. I have more good news and PowerShell resources for you. Microsoft is publishing "10 Minute Concepts" Webcast Series about PowerShell, as stated on Microsoft TechNet [...]

    List of Microsoft virtualization experts to follow

    Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

    At the previous VMWorld conference, Microsoft organized a prize game, even for those who are not attending the conference. All those who wanted to participate only needed to follow any of their virtualization experts on Twitter, and every day Microsoft randomly chose lucky winner of ZuneHD. I am very pleasantly surprised to see Microsoft [...]

    How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 in virtual machine?

    Monday, September 7th, 2009

    After reading my post How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?, you realized that playing with virtualization and virtual machines doesn’t have to be very difficult. You just have to follow few easy steps and there it is, you have your virtual operating system. But wait! We still don’t have virtual operating system. We have [...]

    Get your free Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day trial

    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

    Windows 7 Enterprise trial is designed specifically for IT Professionals, so that you can test your software and hardware on a final version of the product. In addition, it provides the opportunity for you to become more familiar with the key improvements over previous versions of the Windows operating system, and experience firsthand how Windows [...]

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