Archive for February 24th, 2009
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Recuva
Al eerder besteedden we op deze plaats aandacht aan Recuva, maar deze bestandshersteller is sinds die tijd zo veel beter geworden dat we u er nogmaals op moeten wijzen. Bij deze. Recuva is een programma waarmee u gewiste bestanden kunt terugvinden. Niet alleen bestanden die u zelf hebt verwijderd; ook informatie die bij een [...]
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Firefox 3.1 delivery slips; TraceMonkey progress questioned
Some Mozilla developers have recommended that the company consider yanking the new JavaScript engine, dubbed TraceMonkey, from Firefox 3.1 to get the browser back on track and out the door. Their comments came as Mozilla’s head of engineering acknowledged that the browser’s final delivery date will slip.
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E7: Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation
Steven Sinofsky: As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that folks have a lot of passion around many topics. We learned early on about the passion around the boot/startup sequence and how important it was for that to go by quickly! At the [...]
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Gauging Size Differences in AD Databases
We occasionally receive support calls which revolve around the topics of “why is the Active Directory database on DC A different in size than that on DC B?”. It’s easy to dismiss the question out of hand but there are real life scenarios where this can be an important question. And there are real life [...]
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Two Minute Drill: Scriptomatic 2.0
My name is Jeffrey Worline and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Performance team in Texas. We’ve done a number of posts in the past about WMI, and different WMI tools, and today we’re going to take a look at a powerful tool that you can use. If you would like [...]
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Two Minute Drill: PRINTBRM and the Configuration File
My name is Bernd Högen and I am a Platforms Escalation Engineer in Germany. As we discussed in a previous post, PRINTBRM.EXE is the replacement for the now-retired PrintMig 3.1 utility. PRINTBRM.EXE is located in the %systemroot%\System32\Spool\Tools folder on Windows Vista and later operating systems. Today we’re going to quickly discuss the [...]
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Deploying Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering
By now you have probably heard of the new architectural innovation being brought to Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 known as Cluster Shared Volumes, or CSV. CSV functions as a distributed-access file system optimized for Hyper-V. A comparison would be to a clustered file system, however, unlike other clustered file systems, [...]
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)
This VHD release is available in English only and is for evaluation and testing purposes. The VHD images are current set to expire to on August 1st (at which time the OS will become inoperable.
As this installation requires Hyper-V, you will need to have a base install of Windows Server 2008 (64bit edition) or [...]