Running Windows 8? Want to use the SD-card slot with the Music or Movies-applications in Windows 8? Windows Media Player won’t include stuff in the library that’s stored on removable storage so here’s how to fool it!
Create a VHD on an SD-card (or USB, but that’ll stick out of your Slate (which I’m running)).… Read the rest
When you’ve installed Windows 8 it won’t let you edit certain settings until you’ve activated it. But to be able to do that you’ll need to enter your license key first. There’s no obvious way of doing that in the enterprise version, so just do it like it’s done in Server Core in three easy steps:
Get your copy at https://technet.microsoft.com if you’re an MSDN or TechNet+ subscriber!… Read the rest
Monday morning and the downloads just pours out from Redmond!
A new beta of Windows Server 2012 Essentials is available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30327. Now with some upped specs, from 25 users to 75. Which actually makes it quite useful. And no need to reinstall either like the old SBS.… Read the rest
The process towards release and general availability continues and now Windows 8 has hit RTM (Release To Manufacturing). If you’re in a hurry testing the Release Preview version is still available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download but rumour has it that it’ll be publicly available October 26.… Read the rest
During work me and a colleague have tested some utilities for handling hardware settings on both servers and clients. One of the more useful utilites we found was CCTK, Client Configuration ToolKit. This utility lets you change settings in BIOS, both during OSD and otherwise.… Read the rest
Having implemented Direct Access with UAG (Microsoft Unified Access Gateway) at a customer location there were some questions when we were done. Their helpdesk is using SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) and the remote management tools included, how would they go about managing the clients?… Read the rest