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A few months ago I wrote a short post about a cool little powertoy that enables you to copy the path of a file into your clipboard:   Well as Josh Twist has pointed out this functionality is now built-in as standard to Vista (well it is in Vista Ultimate anyway which is what I am running). Just don't forget to hold down ...

Over the last few years, I've been a consultant for a major IT Services company; worked for a UK-based support services company; contracted for Australia’s largest independent magazine distributor; worked in-house designing and project managing a Europe-wide infrastructure refresh for a major fashion design, marketing and retail organisation; and ...

For the last couple of days, the Microsoft File Transfer Manager has been running on one of my PCs, downloading 5.33Gb of Windows code name ''Longhorn'' and IE7 beta software from Microsoft Connect (averaging out at about 65kbps). Sometime last night, it all finally completed but then a few minutes ago, DHL delivered a package from Microsoft in ...

Earlier in the year I blogged about discovering unknown devices in Windows for integration into an unattended build.  What I didn't detail at the time was how to work out which device driver files are needed for a particular device. Some device driver packages are pretty simple, but others are several megabytes in size.  Rarely is the ...

A while back, I read that Microsoft is switching to XML-based document formats in the next release of Microsoft Office and I just read some more... According to PDFzone, Microsoft is developing a new document format (codenamed Metro), which is: A new document file format, similar in many ways to portable document format (PDF). ...

A few days back, Jamie Thomson commented on Microsoft's announcement of Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Longhorn).  At the time I speculated as to whether this new name included the next generation Windows server product and it seems not, at least according to the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1 fact sheet. I'm one of the 10,000 beta ...

I just discovered this and think it's really useful... I'm in the process of documenting a client's server configuration, using a virtual machine with a VPN connection to the client's network and then a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to their servers.  Because the VPN is within a virtual machine, I'm constrained by the limitations ...

Microsoft have announced the name for the next version of Windows (formerly codenamed Longhorn) - Windows Vista. I'm not overly impressed with the name (how about Windows 2006?) but looks like they are going with it. What's not clear is whether this is just the client version, or the next Windows server release too. Perhaps I'll find out more ...

A few weeks back, I was at a Microsoft TechNet UK event, where Steve Lamb discussed Microsoft's implementation of the Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), available in Windows 2000 service pack 3 or later, Windows XP service pack 1 or later, or Windows Server 2003.  This is a new version of IP (also known as IP next generation - IPng), intended to ...

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is often taken for granted - we expect it to work; however there are a few items which need to be considered and this post is intended as a general discussion of DHCP best practice. Most administrators will be familiar with the overall DHCP concept - basically a database of IP addresses allocated to ...