Windows Enterprise Desktop
October 2008
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More out-of-cycle Vista patches on Windows Update!
30 Oct 2008 -
Need Help or Insight into Vista GPOs? Try These Books...
28 Oct 2008 -
Post SP1 Cleanup on Vista
24 Oct 2008
On Tuesday, October 28, as I was knocking off for the day, after 11 PM, I noticed that the autoupdate function in Windows Update had posted two more items to my primary production Vista PC. Both ...
It's difficult to make the most of a modern Windows desktop in an enterprise environment without dealing with Group Policy, and the many objects (usually called GPOs) used to implement and enforce ...
Whenever you install a service pack on a Windows machine, it’s not unusual for it to leave plenty of files strewn about the system disk in its wake. What’s unusual about Windows Vista SP1, however, ...
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Out-of-schedule Security Patch Posts to Windows Update
24 Oct 2008 -
Toward a more positive Vista uninstall experience
15 Oct 2008 -
Generate a Vista System Health Report
13 Oct 2008 -
The Application Compatibility Check Process a la Microsoft
09 Oct 2008 -
Managing Application Compatibility for Windows Vista
08 Oct 2008 -
Dealing with Failed Windows Updates
06 Oct 2008 -
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Provides Basic HW Assessments
03 Oct 2008
Normally, Microsoft reserves its security patches, fixes, updates, and other software tweaks and maneuvers for the second Tuesday in each month, aka "Patch Tuesday." Yesterday afternoon I was ...
Like it or not, sometimes applications wind up on Vista desktops that have to go. Either they've been replaced with something different, newer, or better, or they never should have been there in ...
I recently stumbled across a hitherto unknown gem inside Windows Vista--to me, anyway. It's called a "System Health Report" and it provides a pretty comprehensive view of a Vista system's state, ...
For the next couple of weeks, I'll be digging into issues related to application compatibility for organizations and enterprises considering the move to Windows Vista. For such outfits, one of the ...
In a perfect world, IT professionals wouldn't have to worry about application compatibility issues: everybody would already have embraced the latest versions of Visual Studio (2008) and the .NET ...
Even in enterprise situations where IT professionals will disable Windows Update on desktop and server machines, in favor of staging updates to test machines in the background, and using their own ...
In enterprise environments, desktop hardware configurations tend to be standardized, and are usually limited to at most a handful of different setups that will be deployed for various job tasks or ...
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Mighty Mark's Vista Troubleshooting Tour
01 Oct 2008
For today's blog, I take great delight in referencing a true Windows luminary's similar efforts at Microsoft. I'm talking about Mark Russinovich, who continues his efforts with Sysinternals tools ...