The Network Administrator

Sometime in August there will be a beta, Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as part of its Windows Live service. Companies which sign up for an annual licence for the Office 2010 Standard suite can host Office Web on their own web server via SharePoint

So google came out with the chrome web browser and the performance was great! Is this what we can expect from the operating system? Speed, simplicity, security…. The OS is suppose to be powered by a Linux kernel, to run on x86 and ARM chips. I am not sure when a beta will be available, but i am sure we will know as soon as it is.

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx

Follow my article on installing Windows pe 2.0.

Download snapshot.exe from http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm, once you have the winpe.wim image mounted copy the snapshot.exe file into programs under the mount folder. With snapshot.exe not only can you back and restore images to the server you can bare metal restore a server provided that the hardware is correct.

Windows PE 2.0 is bundled in the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), and is an integral part of both the WAIK and Vista itself. Windows PE 2.0 is available from microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c7d4bc6d-15f3-4284-9123-679830d629f2&displaylang=en

Once the download is complete, use winrar or 7-Zip to extract the iso file. Then select startcd, run the Windows AIK setup and choose all defaults.

From the start menu find  Windows PE Tools Command Prompt, first issue this command copype x86 c:\winpe and then  issue this command imagex /mountrw c:\winpe\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe\mount to mount the wim file. If you wish to copy any additional programs or drivers now is the time to do so. While the image is mounted, if you go under C:\winpe, you can copy drivers her and copy any programs into programs directory. Next unmount the image file by issuing this command imagex.exe /unmount /commit c:\winpe\mount. To create the image file issue this command oscdimg -n -h -bc:\winpe\etfsboot.com c:\winpe\iso c:\winpe\winpe.iso and then burn the image file c:\winpe\winpe.iso with imageburn or other iso burning software.

I was introduced to this device a few days ago while browsing online. At first it just looked like a giant iphone. However, after reading about the device it makes sense. I mean how often do MOST people use a laptop to just browse the internet or make quick updates, etc.

conf t, ca generate rsa 1024

If there is an existing key that you need to clear, issue ca zeroize rsa

So after a few failed attempts, i was finally able to get PHP and MYSQL to run on Windows Server 2008 64BIT. There is a lot of stuff online about this topic but a lot of the information is incorrect.

Basically you need to download MYSQL 64bit, select Windows MSI Installer (AMD64 / Intel EM64T) 

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html

I would also download the MYSQL GUI Tools, select Windows (x86)

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

Next head over to PHP and select VC9 x86 Non Thread Safe (2009-Jun-30 08:52:54) ZIP

http://windows.php.net/download/

Just follow the instructions for setting up wordpress or another php

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install

This looks good, I think it may take some of the confusion out for many

http://www.microsoft.com/web/

This is really cool, it gives end users the ability to easily fix many common problems without having to jump in too deep.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/fixit#tab0