SBSDiva Mobile : Vista

Remote registry and Vista

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:01:00 GMT

In order to remotely manage and patch Vista, you need to tweak and reenable the remote registry service. To do this via group policy, build a policy that turns it on like this: The group policy setting is under computer configuration, Windows settings...(read more)

Translation ... ignore it. Supposed to be fixed in the next OS.

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Windows Event ID 5038 from Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=5038&eventno=8922&source=Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing&phase=1 Translation ... ignore it. Supposed to be fixed in the next OS...(read more)

Loggin' in Vista

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:43:00 GMT

Enabling auditing for the Vista KSOD - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA": http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/12/26/enabling-auditing-for-the-vista-ksod.aspx One more thing about that auditing. The auditing log file on a Vista box...(read more)

Vista Black screen of death -- we still need a reason

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:13:00 GMT

For background read here: How to fix the Vista KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) | LogBlog: http://www.logicitc.com/blog/?p=102 SBSC & MSP Buzz » Blog Archive » Windows Vista Black Screen with Mouse Cursor Only Issue: http://sbsc.techcareteam...(read more)

Windows Firestarter Meeting

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:33:00 GMT

Windows FireStarter Live Meeting Friday, December 12, 8:30 AM Pacific Time Attention developers and IT professionals! Do not miss this live virtual event where you will learn best practices for developing for Windows for standard users, delve into specifics...(read more)

Networking in Vista

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:20:00 GMT

So what does networking in Windows 7 look like? Like that :-) So to all those that get annoyed by Vista's networking can you give me specifics as to why you get annoyed and I'll see if those annoyances have been changed....(read more)

Service pack or not?

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:50:00 GMT

Microsoft exec: Windows 7 is no service pack | Beyond Binary - CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10112149-56.html?tag=mncol;posts Okay Bill sweetie I realize that you need to put a stake in Windows Vista because if you breathe the word Vista...(read more)

The Developer problem

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:05:00 GMT

I am a consumer of software. I am not a coder. Thus I cannot walk in the shoes of my vendors as how easy or how hard it is to develop applications. I don't know how easy or hard it is to develop secure applications. But when a vendor tells a customer...(read more)

Customizing Links

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:46:00 GMT

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Customize-the-Favorite-Links-in-Windows-Vista-common-dialogs.aspx One of the customizations I do for Vista's that are deployed is the Favorites Section. If you are migrating from Vista, the placement of the File open...(read more)

Yes Virginia, that was a Vista Ultimate new game that was released today.

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:43:00 GMT

Yes Virginia, that was a Vista Ultimate new game that was released today....(read more)

Doing yourself in with Group Policy.

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:47:00 GMT

Doing yourself in with Group Policy. I was setting up a new Vista 64bit on our network. Install went fine. One trick I had to to with the Vista 64bit that I didn't have to do with the Vista 32bit was that I had to launch msconfig and Disable UAC and...(read more)

Wanted -- a sucky program

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:30:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=24DA89E9-B581-47B0-B45E-492DD6DA2971&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d2dd7ee0-aaa2-402a-821d-43795d6cf139&displaylang=en http://download.microsoft...(read more)

Engage Consumers, Spark Conversation

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:04:00 GMT

Microsoft Ads: First Phase To “Engage Consumers, Spark Conversation”: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/microsoft-ads-first-phase-to-engage-consumers-spark-conversation/ "The first phase of this campaign is designed to engage consumers...(read more)

Two things 'not' to turn off in Vista

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:00 GMT

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3586741/4752294/137215/2/ Two things not to turn off 1. Tablet pc functions. Disabling this turns off Snipping tool. An extremely helpful tool on Vista. 2. Error reporting. Anyone who claims that your report just ends...(read more)

From the little things you learn about Vista

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Just found out today that on Vista you can go into the Start button, right mouse click on properties, launch the Start menu tab Then go into customize. See that "Printers" and "Run" commands? Check them and then they will pop up on...(read more)

Vista and RWW and enabling files and folders

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:40:00 GMT

So you have a Vista workstation and you use Remote Web Workplace and you want to transfer files and folders between the remote computer and you and it's not working... The trick is that you have to run IE as Administrator which turns off protected...(read more)

Sometimes you just have to find the right person to deal with your issue

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:04:00 GMT

So we had this old old Lotus then Excel Macro that worked with Windows XP and Excel 2007 but once we went to Vista the macro didn't run fast enough to work like it should. It was a home grown macro and we needed it fixed for a certain need. So I pinged...(read more)

Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Link to System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista that can help fix Vista OS update install errors:

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:38:00 GMT

Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Link to System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista that can help fix Vista OS update install errors: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2008/07/28/8786504.aspx That's a keeper of a post. If you have issues installing...(read more)

Mojave OS

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Windows Vista Team Blog : Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/07/29/windows-mojave-video-posts.aspx "We did not use some geeked out or custom built PC. We used an HP Pavilion DV2500...(read more)

Windows Vista® Performance and Tuning

THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:46:00 GMT

Vista, 2 weeks on...... - Nick Whittome - The Naked MVP - MSMVPS.COM: http://msmvps.com/blogs/thenakedmvp/archive/2008/07/28/vista-2-weeks-on.aspx I first saw Nick's post and then this Vista tuning PDF: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/8...(read more)