Check it out, the Dude will be presenting at Atlanta’s AngelBeat on Monday the 28th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/492/ Also presenting at the Birmingham Alabama one on Tuesday the 29th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/493 I’ll be talking on the session: 1:45 – 2:15: Microsoft Windows 8/Office2013 Preview, Systems Center 2012, Azure Cloud Offerings Windows 8 delivers experiences users… Continue reading The Dude does AngelBeat!
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20 minute delay deploying Windows 7 on 802.1x? Fix it here!
Someone mentioned to me that he has a 20 minute delay deploying Windows 7 to 801.1x EAP networks. They noted http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978152 which is “A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer does not respond to 802.1X authentication requests for 20 minutes after a failed authentication”. But didn’t see a fix similar for Windows 7. … Continue reading 20 minute delay deploying Windows 7 on 802.1x? Fix it here!
The network impact of a Windows 8 RT device on your network.
Edited! So someone had this question. It’s a good one. I didn’t know the answer so I found out…. Articles here and here would indicate that network traffic should be both intermittent and light. So….lets check it out. The Test: I built a Windows 8 VM in my lab. Updated it, updated default Windows… Continue reading The network impact of a Windows 8 RT device on your network.
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker PIN
Today’s tip… While it still requires administrative privileges to configure BitLocker, with Windows 8, standard users can now by default change their own PIN/Password. It is recommended that this be used in conjunction with the ‘Configure use of passwords’ GPO setting to enforce length and complexity. One thing this means for enterprises is that they… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker PIN
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker
Today’s tip… Previously, BitLocker encryption has been an ‘all or nothing’. Either a volume was completely encrypted or it was not. Windows 8 brings us a new option, ‘Encrypt Used Disk Space Only’. Just like it sounds, this option allows us to encrypt only the parts of the volume that are currently in use. As… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Bitlocker
How to get Best Practice Analyzers to collect with PowerShell!
This update comes to us from Chuck Timon, a SSEE in CTS… In PowerShell, run – Get-BPAResult –ModelId Microsoft/Windows/Hyper-V > c:\temp\hyper—vbpa.txt Or to get a filtered output Get-BPAResult –ModelId Microsoft/Windows/Hyper-V | fl ComputerName,Severity,Category,Title,Compliance > c:\temp\hyper-vbpa_formatted.txt How cool is that?!
Windows 8 Tip of the Day
Today’s tip… To quickly start your Windows8/Server 2012 machine – Bring up Charms (Winkey+I OR mouse around in bottom-right corner to bring up Charms) – Settings which brings up the below screens (at the regular desktop OR at the Modern Desktop)
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–NTFS changes in Windows 8
Good Morning Internet, todays tip of the day is on Windows 8 and NTFS changes made: There is a fundamental change to NTFS in how we handle file system inconsistencies. Previously, there were a number of reasons that Windows would mark the file system dirty and urge the user to run a Chkdsk /f. Depending… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–NTFS changes in Windows 8
Tip of the Day for Windows 8!
A new blog series from the Great Robert Mitchell by way of the Dude! Who is Robert Mitchell you may ask?!?! He’s this guy: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/robert%20mitchell%20%5Bmsft%5D/ and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-mitchell/3/a0a/551 and http://www.windowsitpro.com/author/5787734/RobertMitchell Anyway, this is a series that runs internally for folks and the Dude said “hey, why don’t we socialize this?” and Robert was like “no… Continue reading Tip of the Day for Windows 8!
The one I’m proud of
I did a few talks at TechEd (and TechReady for that matter) this year. And this is the one I was happiest with. I hope you enjoy/enjoyed it. Jeff https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012/AAP303