We have users who use Windows as our primary operating system and most of them are using Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and now lot of users have shifted to Windows 7 Beta. Often when users install Windows, generally they setup a local user (administrator) and then they configure the domain account. After configuring the… Read more
We have released Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 last year. One of the features that we had deployed internally was DirectAccess. You must have heard about DirectAccess many times during our New Efficiency and similar set of launch events. We have been telling Better Together story with Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008… Read more
You are using Windows 7 on daily basis and of course you enjoy. I have been using Windows 7 almost on every system except my demo machine where I run Windows Server 2008 R2. But that’s not a concern as the both the operating systems share a same code base. I use USB headsets or… Read more
These days everybody has digital camera with high resolution. Typically users click hi res with image sizes ranging from 2 MB to 10 MB depending upon the Megapixels supported by the Camera. Many of them use these for sharing with their friends and families. Often users try to mail these pictures over the email or… Read more
In my previous post I covered how can you access Office Live WorkSpace from Internet Explorer 9 Beta On the similar note I have experienced some of the challenges while connecting to the Live Meeting using Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Last week I was about to attend an internal meeting using Live Meeting and since… Read more
Hello IT Professionals, Thank you very much for attending the first ever Microsoft IT Camp in Delhi. Like I said during my session I am sharing my presentations & resources with you all. Session 01: Get out of Dodge – Migrating to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64 IT Camps Windows Server Migration Session 02: Turbocharge… Read more
Hello, As you all know Microsoft released the Windows 7 BETA build 7000 for testing. Many of you must be excited about the much more enhanced version of the operating system. Windows 7 is much more faster that the Windows Vista and utilizes the resources more efficiently improving end user performance. We have seen many… Read more
If you have Exchange 2010, you can leverage synching Text Messages (SMS) with the help of new Outlook Live for Windows Mobile. Open up this link in your Windows Mobile Web Browser https://update.outlook.com/cabs/OutlookLiveSetup.cab After installing you will get option to select Text Messages in your ActiveSync Settings. Now, that we have Outlook 2010 available for… Read more
Microsoft Windows Essentials 2012 now available (previously known as Windows Live Essentials) Download Windows Essentials 2012 (Web installer) Download Windows Essentials 2012 (Offline installer) Update (3/21/2017): URLs removed as WLE lifecycle is over…. Read more
As you are all aware Hyper-V is Microsoft’s Virtualization platform and we use VHD as the file format for installing operating systems. VHD stands for Virtual Hard Disk. Windows Server 2012 features new file format known as VHDX. You can read more about it over here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831446.aspx As enterprise workloads for virtual environments grow in… Read more