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What I’ve Been Doing And What I’ve Been Reading

  Well I haven't really posted in a while but I have good reasons, sort of. March went by...

Date: 05/12/2012

Windows 7, Solid State Drives and Why A WinSAT Score Matters

I was doing a WDRAP and I ran across an interesting case that required me to do some digging that I...

Date: 02/19/2012

Slow Windows 7 Boot? One ReadyBoot Fix (that you'll want to apply probably anyways)

In my last post I described a little bit about ReadyBoot and when looking at a xbootmgr trace what...

Date: 12/07/2011

Xbootmgr Part 2: ReadyBoot Basics

The more I work with the xperf/xbootmgr the better I get with it. I still feel like I have a lot to...

Date: 11/28/2011

RSS Feed Product Index

Hello from Austin/Dillion! Here is a quick post. A question I get semi frequently is "how do I stay...

Date: 11/22/2011

Hotfix for RID Pool Depletion! KB 261869

A few months back I thought I was going to write a blog post about how to look for RID Pool...

Date: 11/14/2011

"What's Your Stratum Baby?" aka The Worst Pickup Line Ever

Hello from Chattanooga, Where my luggage got here a full day later then me. I'm here to deliver an...

Date: 10/05/2011

Dipping My Toe Into The Xbootmgr Water

Greetings from the mothership aka rainy Seattle, I spent this past week in Windows Desktop Risk...

Date: 08/19/2011

You Are Not Smarter Than The KCC

I had this discussion with a fellow PFE David Gregory , who use to be out of Chicago but now has...

Date: 08/05/2011

Can I Virtualize That and Still Get Support?

Bet you thought there would be no post for July didn't you. Well I threw this one together right...

Date: 07/27/2011

Moving The PDC Role And Testing NTP Server Connectivity

Hello from Chicago, I am actually at home here in Chicago here for a hot minute while I'm on critsit...

Date: 05/22/2011

Knock Knock Is That Port Open?

Hello from Toronto, Here is a quick post. What are the ports that are needed by AD? How can you...

Date: 04/18/2011

Migrating Printers On The End User Machine via VBScript

Greetings from Anchorage! In a former life I use to be a systems engineer just like you. One of my...

Date: 03/17/2011

Group Policy Management Scripts....The Ones You Meant To Write But Don't Have Time

Greetings from Charlotte, Last day of the month so you know what that means...I should probably...

Date: 02/28/2011

Capturing Network Logon Without Spanning A Port (Part 2 of 2)

When I first started this blog I thought I'd be blogging all the time. Then life got in the way....

Date: 01/23/2011

Capturing Network Logon Without Spanning A Port (Part 1 of 2)

Hey Everyone, Sorry for the delay in posts. I was traveling a bit and not prepared to write a post...

Date: 12/26/2010

Connecting Server 2008 R2 Wirelessly And The Service You Never Knew You Needed

Hey Everyone, I figured it's probably a pretty good idea to be able to boot into a few test VMs off...

Date: 12/07/2010

I Liked The Old OS Better This Is Too Many Clicks

Hey Everyone, Has anyone worked with anyone that always liked the last version of whatever product...

Date: 12/04/2010

Wait Is This Thing On?

Hey Everyone, I'm a Premier Field Engineer or PFE here at Microsoft focusing on Platforms(Active...

Date: 12/02/2010