Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - March 2009 - Helge Klein Helge Klein

Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food - A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 3: Usage

In the previous article of this mini-series I described how to install Windows 7 x64 beta 1 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file. In this post I will share some thoughts on what using Windows 7 x64 actually feels like. Drivers But let me pick up where...

Published Mar 25 2009 by Helge Klein , 724 views, 0 comments

Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food - A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 2: Installation

In the first article of this mini-series I described how I prepared my work laptop for the installation of Windows 7 x64 beta 1 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file. This post covers the installation itself. At this point you may (rightly) ask: “Why...

Published Mar 23 2009 by Helge Klein , 774 views, 0 comments

Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food - A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 1: Preparation

After reading a lot about the speed and stability of Windows 7 (beta 1), I decided it was time for me not only to use it for real work, but also to move from 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit installation. This mini-series serves as a documentation of the steps...

Published Mar 19 2009 by Helge Klein , 994 views, 0 comments

New sepago blog on SCCM (German!)

My colleague Thorsten Christoffers has started blogging, mainly on topics related to Microsoft System Center. If you can read German, check out his first article on the Key Management Service (KMS) for Windows. Thorsten, welcome to the small but growing...

Published Mar 19 2009 by Helge Klein , 760 views, 0 comments

Itanium (IA-64), an Obituary

Back in the old days, when 64-bit computing was still a novel concept and RISC vs. CISC wars were still fought, HP and Intel joined forces to develop the next-generation CPU. It would be 64-bit only and it would have a new type of architecture called...

Published Mar 17 2009 by Helge Klein , 736 views, 0 comments

Permissions: A Primer, or: DACL, SACL, Owner, SID and ACE Explained

Every object that can have an security descriptor (SD) is a securable object that may be protected by permissions. All named and several unnamed Windows objects are securable and can have SDs, although this is not widely known. There does not even exist...

Published Mar 12 2009 by Helge Klein , 1,315 views, 0 comments

Registry Reflection in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 x64? Gone for Good!

Although the architecture of Windows x64 is still relatively young, Microsoft already changes it in Windows 7 by removing registry reflection. Just in case you wonder what I might be talking about: read up on 64-bit Windows in my detailed 7-part series...

Published Mar 08 2009 by Helge Klein , 905 views, 0 comments

Do You Still Hide Your Share$?

Subtitle: Fighting Another Legacy of the NT Era Hiding network shares by appending a dollar sign is a common practice among administrators. While by itself that is neither good nor bad, it is a perfect example of how customs establish themselves in the...

Published Mar 01 2009 by Helge Klein , 755 views, 0 comments

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