29 mar 2011

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 RTM

Today, the Home Server engineering team signed off the release version of WHS 2011. An exciting milestone which now starts the process to make it available for purchase.

Affordable and easy-to-use, Windows Home Server 2011 is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and data automatically backed up, organized, and accessible from virtually anywhere.

To help with questions we hear during this time of the product release cycle, I have provided further guidance below. If you have a specific question, please feel free to post in comments, on our WHS forum.

Windows Home Server 2011 helps multi-PC families easily centralize, connect, and personalize their digital files. It provides a simple, familiar, and reliable way to store, stream, share and automatically protect what is most important. In this document, we’ll go over what’s new and improved.

28 mar 2011

How to change the RWW login screen with customized logo on SBS 2011

To change the RWW login screen with customized logo on SBS 2011 you have to edit the image file below:

C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\webapp\RemoteAccess\Customization\Product\logo.png

You may also refer to the detailed steps here  (Thanks Susan)

22 mar 2011

Firefox 4 is officially released

Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser. Firefox puts users in control of their Web experience, providing a streamlined user interface, fun new features, a boost in speed and support for modern Web technologies.

Firefox 4 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than 80 languages. Firefox 4 will also be available on Android and Maemo devices soon.

15 mar 2011

Internet Explorer 9 is available for download

The final, consumer-ready Internet Explorer 9 is available for download starting at 9:00 PM PDT at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 39 languages. With this set of browser releases, the best experience of the Web is on Windows. IE9 shows how your Web experience and browser are only as good as the operating system they run on:

Fast. With IE9, the Web delivers a new level of performance by unlocking the power of the PC hardware through Windows.

Clean. With IE9, consumers can keep sites at the center of their browsing experience, pinning them to the taskbar and interacting with them the same way they do applications.

Trusted. IE9 offers industry-leading protections (like SmartScreen) for the real-world threats (such as malicious sites and phishing scams) that consumers face every day on a sometimes-hostile Web.

Interoperable. With hardware-accelerated HTML5, developers can use the same markup across browsers to deliver a new class of Web experiences that feel more like apps than sites.

Download: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-IT/internet-explorer/products/ie/home

 

more at IE team blog - source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/

8 mar 2011

How to remove/cleanup Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Service pack 1 Files

  1. Start an elevated command or Powershell prompt (Run as Administrator)
  2. If you are servicing this machine, enter dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp to cleanup the online computer. If you want to cleanup an offline wim image, instead enter dism /image:wimfile.wim /Cleanup-Image / spsuperseded /hidesp. The /hidesp option will remove SP1 from the “Installed Updates” section of Programs and Features, to ensure that users do not try to uninstall the service pack.
  3. DISM will now remove backup files and superseded components from your machine. When finished, you should have the below output :

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