I found an interesting article about Longhorn Server.

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_server_preview2_01.asp

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

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