Tag: Windows 8
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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Windows 8.1 Keyboard And Mouse – Shortcuts Galore
How do you navigate in a touch world without a touch device? I am glad you asked. This post will address that question in great detail but we will also look at all the other great things you can do with keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Read It, to understand what you have been missing. Bookmark…
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How To Sysprep – Sysprep is a Great And powerful tool And Easy Too If You Know How (Step-By-Step)
Sysprep is a tool that is designed for system administrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and others who must automatically deploy an operating system on multiple computers. After you perform the initial setup steps on a single computer, you can run the Sysprep tool to prepare the sample computer for cloning. However with the propagation of…
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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Keyboard And Mouse – Shortcuts Galore
How do you navigate in a touch world without a touch device? I am glad you asked. This post will address that question in great detail but we will also look at all the other great things you can do with keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Read It, to understand what you have been missing. Bookmark…
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Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals FREE ebook from Microsoft Press
PDF Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals – PDF ebook Mobi Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – Mobi format for Kindle ePub Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – ePub format ———- This week, we have released a new FREE preview e-Book for IT professionals: Introducing Windows 8 – An…
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FREE Hands-on “Virtual Study Halls” with Live Expert Q&A
NEW HOURS! Based on popular demand, we’ve updated the hours for “Early Experts” Virtual Study Hall assistance – Fridays each week from 11AM to 1PM Eastern Time. – – – – – – – – – – There’s so many cool features to explore in the latest Windows infrastructure offerings that it’s hard to find…
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20 Day of Migrating and Deploying Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure VMs
As IT Pros, we absolutely love building with new technology! This month, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I have been working together on an article series for Migration and Deployment of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and System Center 2012 SP1 to help get you started. Many of these articles address…
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Solution To UEFI issue Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 installation may fail with error message The product key entered does not match any of the Windows images available for installation. Enter a different product key (Unable to install OS)
In the coming weeks, I will add step by step instructions and a video walk-though as well as more information as to what is going on and why. For now, I just want to get the information out in the wild. The quick fix to this problem is use Evaluation media which can be…
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Windows Task Manager auto-started as an effective CPU monitor in your system tray
Overview: You can use Windows Task Manager as an effective CPU monitor left running in the system tray as a notification icon. It’s light on system resources, and safe to leave running full-time. Discreetly shows you how busy your system is, at-a-glance. Moving your mouse cursor over the icon provides a surprisingly handy pop-up view of…
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Migration and Deployment How To Migrate or Transfer Files And Settings To Windows 8 From Windows 7, Vista or XP (Part 4 of 19)
Overview: You can use Windows Easy Transfer wizard to migrate files from your old computer to your new computer. Using the Easy Transfer Wizard is super simple. You can use this tool to transfer you files and settings even if you are moving from an 32 bit (x86) environment to an 64 bit (x64). Basically…
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More IT Camps Coming Soon–Register NOW!
You’re invited. Select the city below to register online or call 1-877-MSEVENT Farmington, CT 2/26 Malvern, PA 2/26 Chevy Chase, MD 2/28 New York, NY 2/28 Alpharetta, GA 3/7 New York, NY 3/12 Rochester, NY 3/13 Durham, NC 3/19 Glen Allen, VA 3/21 Malvern, PA 3/26 Cambridge, MA 3/28 Charlotte, NC 4/2 New York,…
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How to Change The Size of Virtual Memory (pagefile.sys) on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
On the Keyboard Press the WindowsKey + X then click System in the popup menu Tap or click Advanced system settings. You might be asked for an admin password or to confirm your choice. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, tap or click Settings. Tap or click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual…
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Most Excellent Windows Phone Blog Content Reader – Must Have Phone App!
One of the things my peers and I do in our roles as “IT Pro Evangelists” for Microsoft is write blog articles on technologies we find interesting. There is a lot of great information contained on these 11 blogs so Brian Lewis decided to write an app for Windows Phone to access these blogs. To…
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Windows Server 2012 event coming to RI (12-19)
IT-Pro User Group Meeting – Windows 2012 Server – December 2012 When: Back to Calendar December 19, 2012 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Where: New England Institute of Technology (Hall of Fame Room)1408 Division RdNew England Institute of Technology,?,East Greenwich,RI 02818USA Cost: Free Contact: Robert Borgesinfo@it-pro.org December 19, 2012 at 7PMDan Stolts…
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Microsoft IT Camp for a deep dive into Windows Server 2012–Manchester NH (11-29)
Microsoft IT Camp for a deep dive into Windows Server 2012 Event ID: 1032533334 The Executive Court Banquet Facility Crown Court1199 South Mammoth Rd.Manchester New Hampshire 03109United States Meal:Yes Language(s): English. Product(s): Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker, IT Implem_IT Generalist and IT Manager. Please join us at a Microsoft IT…
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Microsoft IT Camp for a deep dive into Windows Server 2012–Troy NY (11-27)
Event ID: 1032533329 Hilton Garden Inn, Troy & Rensselaer Banquet & Conference Facility Ferris Ballroom B235 Hoosick StTroyNew York12180United States Meal:Yes Language(s): English. Product(s): Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker, IT Implem_IT Generalist and IT Manager. Please join us at a Microsoft IT Camp for a deep dive into Windows Server…
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How to Expand a Boot To VHD Disk or other Virtual Hard Drive Using Windows Tool–Diskpart Windows 8, Windows 2012 and earlier OS
Last year wrote a blog post How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever Please refer to this blog post for a step-by-step video of the process. I ran out of space on my…
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AWESOME Windows Live Tiles Toolbox on YOUR Blog or Website – Shared Tools Available on ITProGuru Blog
Shared Tools – Toolbox – Step By Step Any interest in adding a cool Windows 8 UI download toolbox to your blog or website? Make your blog or website the place people go to find the latest downloads 🙂 I put together some resource pages that I am using on my blog and wanted to…
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Windows Server 2012 Installfest Nov 16, Cambridge MA
We are pleased to announce that the Boston Area Windows Server User Group will be providing an Installfest and Full day of training on Windows Server 2012. The Event will be held November 16th 2012 at the Microsoft offices at 1 Cambridge Center in Cambridge, MA. On the MIT map it is listed as NE18 …
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Beta Start Planning Your Migration
The latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with tools to accelerate their migration to the cloud. The beta is available on the connect site. Download the beta materials on Connect: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165 Accelerate your Windows Server 2012 migration with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.0 Beta. This latest version…
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Free eBook Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Preview Edition)
The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same keyboard…