I have 2 BLOG's.  You might think that means that I post a lot.  If you look at this one you will notice that I DON'T post much to it.  I post even less to the other one.  Maybe I will work on posting more to this one?

So, I have installed Windows Vista Beta 2.  I have Office 2007 Beta 2 installed as well.  So far, I have mostly been trying to figure out how to do the things that I don't have to think about with XP.

I am an admin on the machine of course, but with Vista, you have to "Run Elevated" to be able to update software.  (You might have already known that, but it took me a while to figure it out.  I forgive myself, because I get distracted easily and don't always get to concentrate on side issues.)

Another issue for me is the fact that Admin Tools aren't availible for Vista.  I have to log into some other machine to manage AD, DHCP, DNS, etc., etc...

Other things I have figured out?  The OS is kind of like Windows 2000 in that it is a bit of a resource hog.  I hope that will be leveled a bit as we get closer to release.  Lots of eye candy, but not sure if I like it.  It isn't too stable yet, at least with the currently availible drivers for my video card.  The walpaper doesn't show on one of my two monitors unless I have an application open that causes it to cease the Aero effects. Kind of annoying.

I am still trying to get accustomed to the IE7 tabs.  Some of the settings that I had on IE6 to get IE to behave the way I want it to behave, aren't in the same place in IE7 and/or the particulars that you have to do are different.  Plus the fact that I haven't quite figured out how I want the tabs to behave. 

Office 2007 has some of the same stability issues as earlier versions, things hand on occasion, or just don't do anything.  I am hoping for some updates to this soon...

If you have a new server/computer without a floppy drive and you want to install Windows, how do you get past the need to have a floppy drive after you have pressed the infamous “F6”?  Well, you could go buy a floppy drive, or

I fould a nice little utility that will let you build a CD with the desired drivers already present.  It also give you options to configure an unattended setup, remove unwanted components, add Service Packs and hotfixes, etc.

It can be found here:  http://www.nliteos.com/

Want to be able to Right Click and “Send To” a program that isn't there already?

Go to “C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\SendTo\” and drop a short cut to the program you want to see there.

PROBLEM: Users unable to logon to W2k3 TS. There are 4 TS in a Citrix farm and once the problem happens the particular users can never logon. This issue is random and happens to only some users.

Error: Winlogon.exe - Instruction “0x75998902” Referenced memory at “0x0151036c”.  The memory could not be “read“.

The issue was fixed by Resetting the browser settings by right-clicking on "User Configuration/Windows Settings/Internet explorer maintenance" in Group Policy.

Can't delete a user profile in Windows?  Try running this utility.  It runs as a service that removes hooks in the registry that fail to close automatically when a user logs off.

I don't know if anyone really ever does this, but I thought it was interesting.  It is a tool that lets you embed fonts in a web page so that people can see the font you created the page with even if they don't have that font installed.  If someone knows of a more current way to do this, let me know.  I was just browsing when I cam across this and wasn't too concerned about be up to date.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm

To look for a WMI namespace and other tasks that deal with WMI, you can download WMI Tools from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6430F853-1120-48DB-8CC5-F2ABDC3ED314

How to avoid duplicate GUIDs when you image System Management Server 2003 client computers

Do you really need that license logging service?  Doesn't look that way...

License Logging Service (LLS) is a tool that was originally designed to help customers manage licenses for Microsoft server products that are licensed in the Server Client Access License (CAL) model. LLS was introduced with Windows NT Server 3.51. By default, LLS is disabled in Windows Server 2003. Because of original design constraints and evolving license terms and conditions, LLS cannot provide an accurate view of the total number of CALs that are purchased as compared to the total number of CALs that are used on a single server or across the enterprise. The CALs that are reported by LLS may conflict with the interpretation of the End User License Agreement (EULA) and with Product Usage Rights (PUR). LLS will not be included in future versions of the Windows operating system.