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Michael Greene
H3 Brute video!
https://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9340 So I stopped by a Gamestop the other day to grab a...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/26/2006
Merry Christmas
and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/25/2006
Xbox 360 for Christmas
I selected and purchased my own present this year. It's actually Christmas and Birthday since I've...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/24/2006
Search folders in tools
Interesting post The gist of this article is even if the tool you're using does not support search...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/23/2006
Retail Launch Animations
They came for Vista Blog that points over to animations for sharing knowledge with retail partners....
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/23/2006
TFTP client in Vista
At a presentation last week a gentleman asked me if Vista includes a tftp client. Today I was poking...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/21/2006
Sysprep tip from POC today
Today I was working with a public school district on sysprepping workstations running Vista...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/21/2006
Remotely provide a key to Vista and activate
In the past I've mentioned slmgr.vbs. I just used it to remotely provide a key to a workstation and...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/19/2006
Windows MultiPoint, Youths in Developing-World Classrooms Learn 21st-Century Skills
This looks really promising and I hope it is eventually developed for academic classrooms worldwide....
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/19/2006
Best of luck to all students finishing finals this week
A sincere good luck to everyone finishing out the semester this week. Seems like just yesterday......
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/17/2006
Vista Trick #1 - Open Control Panel applets from the Start Menu
I've got blog fodder for months to come. In fact, I'm about to take some time off for vacation so I...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/15/2006
It's a beautiful day
No really, it's unbelievable outside today. I'm going to take my phone and dog and take my next...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/14/2006
Using Vista to backup your Email
I had a really interesting discussion today. I enjoyed a side conversation with a customer in higher...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/13/2006
Staging Vista for network installation using setup.exe
I'm working through all the different scenarios I anticipate schools will leverage to stage and...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/12/2006
Screencast 1 - Using ImageX to Mount a WIM
As an experiment I have recorded a short screencast on ImageX and published it to Soapbox. I...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/11/2006
The magic re-imaging USB key
By now you should have a basic understanding of windows imaging using .WIM technologies and ImageX....
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/10/2006
IE7 Protected Mode GPOs
I was recently asked if there is any way to disable protected mode in IE7 via GPO for a set of...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/09/2006
Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder for Windows XP
When you open "Network" in Windows Vista you'll find you do see more machines than you did in XP,...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/08/2006
Edit the registry on a mounted WIM
This is an incredibly valuable task. Windows Vista employs "Image Based Setup", meaning their is no...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/07/2006
Windows Live Search for mobile, very nice
Link to Windows Live Search for mobile beta Maybe I have been too wrapped up in Vista lately. I'm...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/07/2006
Midwest power outtages
Today our power came back online. Looks like there are about 100k homes still out.
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/06/2006
Moving away from VLK
Every customer discussion on VA 2.0 ends with the same question, "so why is Microsoft making this...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/06/2006
IE6 on Vista?
Link to IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine Tough to believe but I've already been...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/05/2006
Use ImageX without installing WAIK
I've heard a few people actually say ImageX.exe is included with Vista. That's not technically...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/04/2006
Skipping time in demo's, is it ok?
I'm in the process of rebuilding my Vista deployment demo to use in upcoming roadshows. In several...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/03/2006
Still no electricity in 450,000+ St. Louis homes
Even though Ameren has deployed 1500+ crews. The ice coverage is pretty amazing here. Just around...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/02/2006
No power in most of St. Louis today.
Blog post I had planned for today will have to wait. I am one of 1.5 million homes with no power and...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 12/01/2006
The Vista activation script. slmgr.vbs
Every time I am discussing MAK with a desktop engineer and I explain they can script activation you...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/30/2006
25+ Vista deployment tricks
Next week I'm going on the road to visit schools in Denver, Phoenix, and Las Vegas back to back to...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/28/2006
Hooked on podcasts... (webcasts, netcasts, whatever)
Many years ago when I heard podcasts were becoming available I knew it was only a matter of time...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/26/2006
Bliggin Blog
For some reason my wife says that phrase every time I mention my blog. She thinks it should be the...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/26/2006
System Center Essentials has a Wiki
Let's say you are a smaller department within a University and you want to manage your own machines,...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/19/2006
Compatibility through Virtualization
Kevin posted a great write-up on SoftGrid and I just now have had a chance to read it. Nice work...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/19/2006
SMS 2003 OSDFP Update - Start your engines!
So, I know what I'll be doing this afternoon... :-) I put off testing this in beta as I tried out...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/17/2006
NAC-NAP, better together
In education when we talk about NAP the question always comes up - well, couldn't someone leverage...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/06/2006
ODF Converter for Word 2007
I listened to a Port 25 webcast yesterday and they mentioned the ODF Converter project on...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/03/2006
Another good use for vhdmount, mounting Vista backups
I just read a great post on MSDN blogs regarding vhdmount, a tool in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/02/2006
50 first posts...
Last summer Kevin Sullivan and I had a conversation about blogging. We had been to a series of...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/02/2006
Education FAQs - BitLocker
As the second installment of my education FAQs for Windows Vista technologies, I have gathered a...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/01/2006
What products are covered by Microsoft Update? - Answer
Yesterday I received the question - what products are now updated through Microsoft Update? I had to...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 09/01/2006
New MacBU blog
Just a quick post this morning - the Microsoft Mac Business Unit has a new blog! See...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/31/2006
Microsoft Open Source Lab extends letter to Mozilla
Nice unbiased article on ZDNet regarding a recent posting to a Mozilla dev newsgroup from the...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/26/2006
Microsoft and Facebook
Interesting Press Release. Good to see some alignment going on with such a popular tool in...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/23/2006
Windows Vista - Wikipedia
I've seen the link to this site in a couple of blogs and even Email signatures. Wikipedia (I'm a...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/23/2006
Cool third pillar offerings coming soon
The third pillar of Microsoft's strategy in education is to support the digital lifestyle. Zune is...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/23/2006
Great screencast on Vista deployment!
So, I am planning a couple of additional Education FAQ write-ups. The next on my list is BitLocker,...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/23/2006
Deleting files from mounted WIM images
In the past week I have been in my "lab" testing out WDS, AIK, SIM, and the included tools....
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/12/2006
Move to SQL Express
Just caught some interesting news – according to this post there will be no support in Vista for...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/09/2006