I couldn’t find any good search results on how to remove an active partition on a Windows system (and this is not in the disk management GUI) and eventually figured this out on my own, so I thought I’d share. Of course, this is only useful if you have a drive which no longer contains an operating…
Save TechNet Library content offline
Ever wanted to not have to scroll through endless expansions of bite-sized content on the TechNet library and just download a document of only the content you want instead? I know this has been frustrating for me in the past and when I brought it up to a TechNet manager he said “you can already…
XP-Mode vs App-V vs Med-V vs VDI
There are so many virtualization options available from Microsoft, which one do you use when? We cleared this up in a short interview and addressed how these options might help you remediate your legacy applications over to Windows 7. Also, we just launched the XP to Windows 7 Migration process guide with the announcement of…
Office 2010 Demo and Interview for IT Pros
I interviewed Ralf on the Office 2010 team who showed a demo of some of the cool new features in Word and Outlook 2010 as well as answered some relevant questions for IT Pros – now that the Technical Preview is out there we can show it. The full breakdown of the interview is at…
Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide v2 available
I finished creating the Silverlight deployment guide awhile ago, but after a number of reviews, revisions, and updates it is finally available for download. This guide is applicable to all versions of Silverlight, including Silverlight 3. The idea was that the guide would have a long life beyond SL 3 without revisions, while areas needing…
ADMX policy missing or blank – bug
When you create a policy with a custom ADMX template which uses a registry key outside of the standard 4 recommended locations (below) and open up your group policy editor using gpedit.msc, the policy will not be listed and you will get no error. The workaround is to use the group policy editor which comes…
Silverlight Installation Switches
Below is a list of all of the Silverlight 1, 2, and 3 installation switches available and their description. This will be included in the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment guide v2 which I’m writing – to be released soon. In the mean time, here they are for your assistance: The Silverlight install executable file has a…
IE 8 ClickJacking and security PM interview
I interviewed Kymberlee Price, IE security PM responsible for future research with ClickJacking. She gives us insight into what research the team is doing in this area as well other great insights into IE security. For a complete breakdown of the contents of the interview, please view this post on TechNet Edge. Also, you can…
Why should an IT Pro care about IE 8?
Below is a list of the top 5 technical reasons why you should care about deploying Internet Explorer 8 now – and also some reasons why IE 8 is better than Firefox/Chrome. Original article published on Edge here. More Productivity – Get things done and browse faster and easier. Microsoft gathered a huge amount of…
Internet Explorer 8 event for IT Pros and Developers
Attend the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event on Thursday, March 26th and learn the core of what all IT Pros and Developers need to know about IE 8. You will gain a deeper understanding of the new features, security, deployment best practices, compatibility and migration, and where IE stands with the competition. Get the breakdown…