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As many of you will already be well aware, with the Release Preview for Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows 8 drawing to a close now that the product has now hit RTM, and whilst it offered various functionality changes over the Continue reading Disable the Windows 8 Lock Screen across your Domain through Group Policy
Hello everyone, First of all a very late but happy new year to you all, I hope you all had a good one, and went easy on the alcohol, as I am sure you all did…ha! As of late last Continue reading Host Move
Part 4: DHCP, Computer Creation & Domain Joining In the previous part of this guide I briefly explained Active Directory and it’s use. I also walked through the process of creating a user object within Active Directory. This part of Continue reading [Guide] Setting up a Windows Domain with Windows Server 2008 R2
Like many others, I have been playing around with the Windows 8 Developer Preview build regularly for the last 2 weeks or so, and getting a feel for it. Especially since I have the build installed as the primary OS Continue reading Windows 8 Developer Preview: Make the Metro Weather app display temperature in Degrees Celsius
As many of you will already know, last week Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference. Attendees were supplied with Tablet PC’s with the build pre-installed along with the set of developer tools, with Continue reading Issues with Skype on the Windows 8 Developer Preview? Here are a few basic workarounds.
As many of you will already know, a few days ago a new Windows 8 build leaked into wild and rapidly became available on FTP servers and Torrent sites. Build 7989.winmain.110421-1825 which is newer than the previously leaked builds 7955 Continue reading Windows 8 Build 7989 Overview
Part 3: Active Directory & User Creation In part 2 of this guide we configured our domain controller by setting up DNS and Active Directory Domain services. Now we shall take a brief look at Active Directory itself including adding Continue reading [Guide] Setting up a Windows Domain with Windows Server 2008 R2
So as many of you have probably already noticed, I have been away from quite some time. Over the past year or so I have been extremely busy with work related duties and various other projects, so much that I Continue reading Back in business!
A few days ago Microsoft released a WGA based update for Windows 7 systems through Windows Update. The update known as “KB971033” was to ensure that all current Windows 7 users had a genuine copy of the OS installed on Continue reading Update for Windows Activation Technologies Playing Fair?
So as many of you probably already know, just shortly before Windows 7 was due to RTM (Release to Manufacturing ) the EU kicked up a stink (yet again) due to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. This has been Continue reading Taking a look at the Windows 7 Browser Ballot Screen