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Windows XP SP2 & Windows Vista RTM End of Support Information

There are a number of Microsoft support lifecycle milestones on July 13 th 2010. We need to make sure customers are aware of the milestones and plan system and OS deployments to ensure that they maintain access to Microsoft support and updates. · Windows XP SP2 will no longer be the supported...

Posted to In The Know - Charles Van Heusen's Weblog (Weblog) by charlesv on Wed, Jan 20 2010
Windows 7 Downgrade Rights - Your choice Vista or Windows XP - For a Limited Time

Several news articles are out in circulation regarding the recent announcement that Windows XP will be an optional selection for the downgrade rights, which has spurred a lot of questions at the SB2@TS2 events around the reasoning behind this decision. When this first came to my attention over a week...

Posted to In The Know - Charles Van Heusen's Weblog (Weblog) by charlesv on Wed, Apr 15 2009
Imaging fun times – Part 2 Acronis

So some background information as I start part 2: (if you missed part 1 click here) About a month a go I got one of my favorite emails, time to ship back one of my Laptops to corporate, thus I had to switch hardware platforms – Rebuild entire environment from scratch on new hardware. - Or play with some...

Posted to BVA (Weblog) by bryanvon on Tue, Apr 7 2009
Imaging fun times – Part 1 Complete PC Backup

About a month a go I got one of my favorite emails, time to ship back one of my Laptops to corporate. Never mind the promise broken that I would have it for the rest of the fiscal year; what was frustrating was I had my entire Demo environment built for both my TS2 and SB2 live events that I present...

Posted to BVA (Weblog) by bryanvon on Thu, Apr 2 2009
Microsoft explains how it missed critical IE bug

I wanted to add my thoughts to this article on our latest IE Security fix. This bug was a stinky one, and one that was hard to find. Have you ever heard of TOCTOU? Me neither until I studied for my CISSP. TOCTOU is Time of Check, Time of Use. Bugs like this are not detected by normal code scanners and...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Tue, Dec 23 2008
Here's another CRITICAL out of band Security update that needs to be deployed right now.

Please look at this and please try to get this deployed before you leave for Christmas break. I hate saying this, but it is the right thing to do. Please check out: Here's the TechNet article: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-078.mspx Check out this Security Advisory as well...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Wed, Dec 17 2008
Server 2008 and VISTA - Delivering Business Value

As I travel around and speak to partners and customers, I have found there is a real need to have a business discussion around the value of upgrading to what I call the stack. So what is the stack? Well that is the Server and Client. As many of you are aware there is a tight integration on the Microsoft...

Posted to BVA (Weblog) by bryanvon on Fri, Oct 10 2008
I'm a PC

When I saw the first Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates commercial, It left me wondering what we were doing. The next two helped a "bit", but still I was wondering what we were doing. Now that I've seen the "I'm a PC" commercial, I have a bigger smile on my face. The reality is...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Sun, Sep 21 2008
Big Event This Saturday at the Microsoft Las Colinas Texas Office - Don't Miss it!

The DFW-SBS Partner Symposium and Culminis Presents: Microsoft Windows Vista and SBS 2008 Join us Saturday, July 26th to hear from Peter Gallagher, Charles Van Heusen (of Microsoft’s TS2 team and founding members of DFW-SBS), Eriq Neale (resident SBS MVP and owner of EON Consulting, author of SBS 2003...

Posted to In The Know - Charles Van Heusen's Weblog (Weblog) by charlesv on Tue, Jul 22 2008
Extend your Server 2003 Active Directory Schema for Windows Vista and Server 2008

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 include additional group policy settings that give the administrator more granular management of their user's workstations. To leverage these new configuration items, the schema of a Server 2003 Active Directory forest must be upgraded to a Server 2008 schema...

Posted to Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys & Girls (Weblog) by rwagg on Wed, Jun 25 2008

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