Microsoft have just released this interesting KB article on large sector drive support in various versions of Windows. Over the next few years, the data storage industry will be transitioning the physical format of hard disk drives from 512-byte sectors to 4096-byte sectors (also known as 4K sectors). This transition is driven by several factors, [...]
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Tag Archives: Support
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 – Beta Service Pack 1 (What else does it do?).
July 14, 2010
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Yesterday (12th July 2010) at the Microsoft Partner Convention, Microsoft made publically available the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 (in English, French, German, Japanese and in Spanish). Service Pack 1 Beta Information. Microsoft for sometime have stated that the only major new features in Service Pack 1 [...]
Read moreActive Directory Explorer v1.4 – Now Available
June 25, 2010
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Microsoft have released version 1.4 of the Sysinternals tool ”Active Directory Explorer “. AD Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an object’s schema, and [...]
Read moreResultant Set of Policy (RSOP) not working.
June 24, 2010
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Recently I had a couple of issues with Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) and enabling it to work for IT teams who were not Administrators. One issue I had was that every time Resultant Set of Policy was run for users with delegated permissions (and on further testing “Domain Admins” too) they all received an [...]
Read moreActive Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 3.2 Documentation
June 23, 2010
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Microsoft have released ADMT 3.2 and this guide details how to use the Active Directory Migration tool to migrate users, groups, managed service accounts and computers between Active Directory domains in different forests (interforest migration) or between Active Directory domains in the same forest (intraforest migration). It also shows how to use ADMT to perform security translation between different Active Directory [...]
Read moreInstall Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 before May 1?
May 10, 2010
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MSDN and TechNet Subscribers who installed Office Professional Plus 2010 or Visio Professional 2010 before May 1, 2010 may not have all product features enabled. Last week when I logged on to the TechNet downloads website, I noticed that my orignal Office Professional Plus 2010 key had now become a “Terminal Service enablement” Key and there were now [...]
Read moreMicrosoft Support Lifecycle – Service Pack Support Policy updated.
April 28, 2010
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I have noticed that Microsoft on the 13th April updated their policy regarding service packs. Under the old policy a customer would have to be running a service pack that was still supported before being eligible to receive support. The Service Pack Support policy has been revised to provide customers with limited troubleshooting on unsupported service pack [...]
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