Archive for the 'Windows' Category

First look on Windows 7

Posted on November 1st, 2008 filed in Windows

Okay so here we are again, this time with a look on the new Windows 7. Expected to be released in the second half of 2009, it was presented last week to developers on the 2008 PDC. As soon as I got my hands on it I installed it in a Virtual Machine and had a look.

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Exchange Server and Vista

Posted on December 21st, 2007 filed in Windows

When I bought my Vista-equiped laptop half a year ago, I noticed when I logged in to my Exchange Server 2003 using Outlook Web Access, I couldn’t type any messages. I didn’t give it much attention at that time, because I normally work in-house and use the “normal” Outlook which has no problems. But last week I made [...]

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64 bit OS on Virtual PC

Posted on December 14th, 2007 filed in Virtualization, Windows

Okay, Virtual PC should be emulating a Pentium III, but why are both Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux reporting an Intel Core 2 CPU? So I thought, let’s find out if the OS can really work with a 64-bit enabled processor.

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Windows Server 2008 RC1 available

Posted on December 13th, 2007 filed in Windows

While I’m playing with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RC0, the Release Candidate 1 is available for download. It’s coming in here now, so I’ll write about my experiences with it very soon here.

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Windows Server 2008 RC0

Posted on November 21st, 2007 filed in Virtualization, Windows

In november 2007 the Release Candidate 0 of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 came available and of course I wanted to test it. The task I had in mind for this Server OS was to test it with the Linux and/or UNIX clients to authenticate with it. But first of all this Operating System had to [...]

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