Windows 7: the best articles so far

As expected, the number one topic in the Windows blogosphere is Windows 7. As I write this, about 30 or 40 Windows 7 articles have shown up in my RSS reader. In this post, I will just link to the best ones which will save you some time if you want to inform yourself about [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Thu, October 30, 2008 - 2 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

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How to recover a non-bootable Windows installation – The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (MSDaRT or DaRT) is tool set to recover Windows which is only available for Volume license customers.

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Wed, October 29, 2008 - 22 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

FREE: SolarWinds VM Monitor – Get X-Ray insight into your ESX Servers

Submitted by Josh Stephens – Blog: Thwack SolarWinds free VM Monitor is an ingenious desktop tool that continuously monitors a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines, delivering the real-time monitoring of ESX Servers that you’ve been missing. With VM Monitor at your fingertips, you’ll be able to track virtual server health at-a-glance and ensure [...]

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Windows 7 news

PDC2008 will start tomorrow and everybody is expecting that news about Windows 7 will surface there. It seems that news already leaked today because some bloggers have information about new Windows 7 features. In this post, I will summarize the interesting things I’ve read today. However, I will exclude the features that I already mentioned [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Mon, October 27, 2008 - 1 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

FREE: FREEping – Quick and dirty monitoring

FREEping is a ping utility that can be used as a simple monitoring tool. There are many free network scanners that are much more sophisticated, but FREEping has a feature that allows you to monitor the availability of an unstable server without much hassle. FREEping constantly pings a server, but it won’t immediately mark it [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Thu, October 23, 2008 - 1 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.