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MetroTwit – an awesome Windows Twitter Client

This is just a quick note about one of the coolest Windows Twitter clients. Since some months I started using MetroTwit and I loved it. You can get MetroTwit here.

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HP Elitebook 8460w boots with OCZ Vertex 2 SSD

HP Elitebook 8460w boots with OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. Needs something like 16 seconds for off to Loginscreen. This is not a clean Windows installation, so maybe with a clean Windows installation the 8460w...

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Native Boot To VHD (Boot2VHD) – Everything You Need To Know…

Some time ago I made a post about how you can boot from a VHD. Now some days ago I found a very cool series of blog post from Dan Stolts (Microsoft Sr. IT Pro Evangelist) about booting from VHD. He...

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Remove a VPN connection in Windows 7

In Windows 7 you an create VPN connections for PPTP, L2TP or SSTP. To delete a connection you can not just right click and press delete. But it’s still very simple, but a lot of people can’t find where...

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Microsoft’s Mouse Without Borders

Microsoft released a free software called “Mouse Without Borders” which allows you running multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse like Synergy. But the “Mouse Without Borders” brings a lot of...

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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and boot from VHD

Some days before the BUILD conference, Microsoft released a video about Hyper-V in Windows 8. Now after some days of testing I am already a big fan of the client Hyper-V. It lets me create a perfect...

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Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview

  Some days ago the Microsoft Powershell Team released the Community Technology Preview of the Windows Management Framework 3.0 which includes Windows PowerShell v3. You can download the the CTP1 here...

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The new SkyDrive rocks…

Today Microsoft released some new SkyDrive Apps for Windows and Mac and alos offers 25GB of free online storage. I really love SkyDrive to keep my files in sync and access them everywhere. With the...

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Vizio is doing it right

Some years ago I moved from Apple products to PC products from mayor vendors like HP, Lenovo or Dell. I really love Windows and the way it works, don’t get me wrong OS X is a good operating system and...

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Add drivers to Windows 8 ISO Image

I already did a post how you can add drivers to you Windows 7 image with command line tools like dism and imagex. With Windows 8 you cannot use the command line tool imagex anymore but you have a new...

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Save PowerShell Object to file for Remote Troubleshooting

This is not something new to the most of you PowerShell guys out there, but still there are a lot of IT Pros which do not know about this. Sometimes we have to do some remote troubleshooting without...

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How to get over 1TB of OneDrive storage

Well today Microsoft finally changed the storage you get on OneDrive. Since I get a lot of questions from people on Twitter, here is how you get over 1TB of storage available on your OneDrive account....

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GPU Requirements for RemoteFX on Windows Server 2012 R2

If your are planning a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) deployment with Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V  and you want to use physical graphics power with RemoteFX for your VDI machines fore example...

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Veeam Announces Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE

This week I had the chance to be in Las Vegas at the VeeamON 2014 conference and so far it was an absolutely great event, but I will write about that in another blog post. Veeam also did announce the...

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How to Backup a Windows Client to Microsoft Azure

Today Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure Backup now not only supports Windows Server or System Center Data Protection Manager, it also support Windows Clients, including Windows 7, Windows 8 and...

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Get name of the PowerShell script file inside the script

When you create a script you sometimes want to create some output for a log file for example. In many cases it makes sense to use the script file name for the log file so you can easily see from which...

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Windows 10 Editions and upgrade paths

Last week Microsoft announced the different editions of Windows 10. As in the past Microsoft offers Windows in different editions that are tailored for various different use cases and scenarios....

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12 reasons to use Xbox Music

This week Apple launched their own music streaming service called Apple Music to compete with others like Spotify and other services. One service which is not really known by the public is Microsoft...

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Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure

Veeam does some great products for your virtualization and datacenter environment such as their Veeam Backup & Replication suite, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE and Management Packs for System Center...

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