The Man Behind Windows 7’s Fast Start

so there's a story over on the MS website about windows 7 faster starting times.... http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/jan10/01-25windows7profile.mspx?rss_fdn=Custom I completely agree - windows 7 starting times and "time to use-ability" are quite good - especially in comparison to vista.... however the tone of the article worries the hell out of me. "It gave me a really good…

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Hitchens

ahhh i love thse videos.... i found "god is not great" heavy reading - and in my case at least, its just another point of view on the same core belief - that religion is fundamentally evil. But watching hitchens in action is just funny and heart-warming.... the 2nd part of this video compilation in…

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SCCM – FFS!

Recently we've dealt with a number of schools who have been moving to SCCM... so far, each school has used their "default" services provider to install SCCM.... for a few days up to a few weeks...with wildly varying degrees of failure.... from not even getting a primary installed to getting it installed, but having the…

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kb974571 strikes again...

A while back i wrote about this patch which killed OCS... (which the OCS team have now fixed) I got an email today from one of my guys saying that it also killed USMT... sure enough, i just ran into the same thing.... The SMSTS.log reports Failed to import the client certificate store (0x80092024) OSDSMPClient…

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AD 2008 R2 – Recycle Bin

So i moved our domain up to 2008 R2 domain and forest functional level - all so i could have the excitment of enabling AD recycle bin. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392261(WS.10).aspx Enabling AD recycle bin - powershell or LDP... not the friendliest, but fair enough... But actually recovering the objects, LDP or powershell aswell... thats just not very…

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More exchange 2010

This time an upgrade from exchange 2003... put it this way, it only took a few hours... it was that smooth.... and i actually bother to use the certificate wizard for the first time (all the other installs ive just installed the cert locally and assigned it, havent had to create new ones) - very…

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Exchange 2010 AntiSPAM

So its been a week since i moved to exchange 2010 - and in turn started using exchange's built-in antiSPAM capability (well, it is in 2007, but i never used it) - primarily because most 3rd party anti-spam add-ons weren't 2010 ready at RTM (which is fair enough) Previously, i had always used 3rd party…

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