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• Springboard Series – Windows Vista Performance

  WARNING – this is a progressive download video. It is not streamed. Therefore the entire 400MB video is downloaded and played if you click the big START button above. What’d you expect for 60 minutes of video? If you want to download the video and play... Posted Sep 27 2008, 12:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Video, Search, Hardware, Windows Vista, Group Policy, Mobility, Networking, Deployment, Management, Laptop Stuff, Imaging, x64 OS and Apps

• How many applications are you starting with Windows? Here’s 36

  I was on a thread today regarding some issues a user was having with their laptop.  The msinfo32.exe information was requested and received.  I was looking at the usual stuff then expanded the Startup Programs node of information and saw the... Posted Aug 14 2008, 09:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Group Policy, Management, Laptop Stuff, Unfun Stuff

• My Favorite Windows Vista Runtime Improvements (RTI)

  There’s an acronym from the past for you.  Run Time Improvements (RTI).  I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista .  In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and... Posted Jul 29 2008, 09:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Active Directory, Search, Windows Vista, Group Policy, Storage, Management, Virtualization, Laptop Stuff, Windows Server 2008, x64 OS and Apps

• Windows Vista SP1 is coming and I'm digging it now

  One of the benefits of working for a software company is watching a product release develop then ship. Of course sometimes dogfooding software has pitfalls so some would debate the "benefit" statement.  It's pretty rare for our internal... Posted Jan 27 2008, 02:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Active Directory, Search, Windows Vista, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, Networking, Deployment, Management, Laptop Stuff, x64 OS and Apps

• How do you notify users of updates?

  As you'll recall, I posted some information about the Microsoft IT organizations implementation of WSUS and how it affected a number of users. You can read those gory details here . Well, I'm sad to say the saga continues... To recap, I'm a mobile user... Posted Apr 19 2007, 04:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Active Directory, Windows Vista, Windows Server, Group Policy, Mobility, Windows Group Policy, Longhorn Server, Deployment, Management, Laptop Stuff

• People, Process and Technology sometimes collide

  I'm the people part of the equation. Recently the process and technology ran right over me and turned me into IT road kill. So what happened? Could it have been avoided? Let me explain. Let's set this up by describing my typical work environment. Like... Posted Apr 06 2007, 06:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Active Directory, Windows Vista, Windows Server, Group Policy, Mobility, Networking, Windows Group Policy, Deployment, Management, Laptop Stuff