Windows

Media Center, Windows 7 and a Xbox360

On Friday, April 30th, 2010, in User Groups, Windows, by Todd
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Blog post about my Code Camp 2010 presentation in Ottawa. My session covered Windows Media Center 7 and the Xbox360.

Setting up a KMS Server

On Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, in Deployment, Windows, by Todd
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Instructions on how to setup a KMS Server for Windows 7 activation using Windows Server 2008 R2.

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010

On Friday, October 23rd, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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All three of these products have launched over the past few days. I had the opportunity on Wednesday to head up to Toronto for the launch. Steve Balmer was on hand to do a keynote speech and had a few interesting points. He was asked when Microsoft was going to force customers to upgrade to [...]

Windows 7 RC Released

On Thursday, May 7th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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Just a reminder that Windows 7 RC has been released for download which you can get from the Windows 7 site. Two new features in Windows 7 RC which weren’t in Windows 7 Beta are Windows XP mode and Media Streaming. Dropped in Windows 7 RC is the Bluetooth Audio driver and Drag and Drop [...]

EnergizeIT: Install Fest for Windows 7 – Ottawa Event

On Thursday, April 9th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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The EnergizeIT Windows 7 Install Fest ran in Ottawa and the session went great. There were 71 people out tonight with laptops to install Windows 7 onto their computers and a few more people from the OWSUG walking about and helping people with problems. Windows 7 was installed to computers as fresh installs, dual boots, [...]

Windows 7 – Changes to Run As

On Thursday, February 5th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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David Myers has a great post today on the changes to Windows 7 when using Run As. For those that don’t know. David and I spent many hours together driving back and forth from the Certification Study Group in Ottawa for a couple of years and we both did our Train the Trainer course for [...]

Windows 7 – The Lineup is Released

On Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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Microsoft announced their Windows 7 lineup today. The plan for Windows 7 is to promote 2 main versions in North America, Professional and Home Premium, but the other versions will be there as well. The versions being offered are as follows and the points listed are my interpretation of the what I read in the [...]

Media Center Fix KB961367 in Windows 7 Beta

On Friday, January 16th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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Just getting up to date and I notice Microsoft has posted a page for the Media Center problems with the latest Windows 7 release. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367 is the page where you can find the information and the hotfix. It explains the problem and has the official Microsoft links to the download. Fixes play back and record [...]

Windows 7 – Jump Lists

On Tuesday, January 13th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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I installed Windows 7 Beta on Saturday to my laptop. It had just finished installing and was I just starting to check it out when Tracey noticed I was done. She then asked to borrow the laptop and she logged on to the machine so she could surf the web. I had wanted to try [...]

Windows 7 Beta is Available Now

On Saturday, January 10th, 2009, in Windows, by Todd
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Just got the word that Windows 7 General release is now available on the Windows 7 website. Also make sure you patch the release for the mp3 flaw. I also noticed in the release notes that if you have an iPhone and install the 64 bit version of Windows 7, and you install the 32-bit [...]