Last Updated on 5 May 2016, Total: 769 Blog Posts
With a career spanning more than 23 years in IT, George Chetcuti has hands-on experience on HP high-end UNIX setups, Windows high-availability clusters and cloud computing. He has overseen various network projects and managed IT departments. The aim of this blog is to address various network related issues and topics from networking concepts to hands-on tasks for the community of network administrators, where your comments and suggestions are always welcome. He also writes about Windows 7 in the little free time he has at www.windows7library.com.
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| 5 | Troubleshooting |
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Get a glimpse of Microsoft's new operating system by trying the pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. Though, it is nowhere near finished and should not be used in production environments, it would be quite interesting to know where Microsoft is heading with this new generation of Windows. You have the ability to try out both the touch-centric 'Metro'... Read More
Both Refresh Points and System Recovery features in Windows 8 can be used to remove malicious and corrupted files. W. Kenneth Johnson has published some notes from his research about Windows 8 forensics and where you can find a good explanation about various artifacts related to these two features. Read more here - http://randomthoughtsofforensics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/windows-8-refresh-excerpt.html... Read More
According to Microsoft, Windows 8 will be easier to use and faster to install! Windows 8 has a revamped install process and will install in only 21 minutes on a clean system. Until we are able to verify such statements (second half of 2012) Microsoft will continue to improve reliability while also improving the installation experience and raw performance. PCs... Read More
Download Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8 Release Preview, and start some hands-on training how to best deploy a future roll-out of Windows 8 to end users' workstations. The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit is a collection of tools that you can use to customize, assess, and deploy Windows operating systems to new computers. Windows Deployment is... Read More
Windows Azure AD Rights Management provides the ability to enable the use of digital rights management technology in organizations that subscribe to the Office 365 preview services. Office 365 Preview customers can enable rights management capabilities within the Preview versions of Exchange Online, SharePoint and Office. These downloads enable an administrator to manage Windows Azure AD rights management features and... Read More
Troubleshooting network problems can be quite daunting at times and a recommended good practice when troubleshooting Windows Firewalls is to enable the native logs. If you need to verify whether a firewall rule is blocking or allowing traffic, you should enable logging, re-create the problem and then examine the log files. By default, Windows Firewall saves log entries in %SystemRoot%\System32\LogFiles\Firewall\Pfirewall.log... Read More
How many caring parents would like to have the appropriate tools to manage their kids' online activities! With MS Windows Live Family Safety 2011, parents can manage which websites their children are allowed to visit, which programs they can run and for how long they can use the computer. The product records the children online activity and has some cool... Read More
After February 13, users of Windows Live Mesh would not be able to perform remote desktop and peer-to-peer activities. "Mesh synced storage" or "SkyDrive synced storage," will no longer be available through Mesh or devices.live.com, but copies of files on the local computer will remain unaffected. Microsoft recommends users to save all their cloud-based files to their local computers. However,... Read More
Very recently Microsoft released an update to resolve an issue which requires an update to the certificate revocation list on Windows Mobile devices and to keep your systems certificate list up to date. Affected systems are Windows Mobile 6.x, Microsoft Zune HD and Windows Phone 7. Remember that compromised digital certificates could allow spoofing. The fraudulent certificates go back to... Read More