Monthly Archives: December 2009

7 Things to look for in Windows 7 PC Hardware

With Windows Vista amounting to a 31% market share in enterprise environments, many big companies will be making to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 directly. In the eight years between their respective launches, a lot has changed in the world. Not just in the world we know, but also in the world of […]

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Windows on Windows (WoW) in Server Core R2

As you’re probably aware Windows Server 2008 R2 is not available in a 32bit (x86) version. Only 64bit versions (both x64 and IA64) are available, but Microsoft happily provides 32bit Windows on Windows (WoW) support, so admins can install their favorite 32bit programs on top of their 64bit installations. I’ve dedicated quite some blogposts to […]

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A Curious Change in Default Password Policies

After releasing the whitepaper on Remotely Managing Server Core boxes, I received a message from a colleague. He claimed the following sentence on page 5 of the Whitepaper to be faulty: After you first install Windows Server 2008, in either a full or Server Core installation, you are required to change the Administrator password to […]

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