Windows Services, What changed from Vista to Windows7 – Part2
In part one of “Windows Services, What changed from Vista to Windows7” I highlighted the new, renamed and removed services that come with Windows7. Some Services are not quite new, but are now just installed by default. One example is Read More …
Windows Services, what changed from Vista to Windows7 Part1
Today I took a closer look at the Windows Services running on Windows7. A lot of the performance improvements with Windows7 are related to the way how and when services are being loaded so i thought it’s worth to see Read More …
Finding FSMO Role Owners
In preparation of doing some Group Policy related things, I decided to extend my Home Lab AD infrastructure running on Windows Server 2003, with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2 domain controllers. Because at some stage I want to Read More …
Playing with BranchCache
During the past 2 days I have been looking at the Windows 7 BranchCache feature. After hearing, reading and talking about this for months, it was about time to do some hands-on stuff. I used the BranchCache Early Adopter’s Guide Read More …
More about Microsoft product lifecycles
As I wrote the previous blog entry I started thinking about all the other products I come across in my daily professional life and started creating the table shown below. For those that are still running Windows 2000 Server systems, Read More …
Windows XP mainstream support ends in 2 days
On April 14th mainstream support for Windows XP will end. for the next 5 years the operating system goes into extended support. The table below illustrates the differences between mainstream and extended support. The Microsoft Windows XP product page explains Read More …