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March 2009 - Posts

Windows Server 2008 Manageability Feature: Group Policy Preferences: Part 3 Local Groups
Another use of Local Users and Group preference extension to enable us to add a specific domain groups or accounts to the local machine group. for this example I'm going to add all manila employees as administrators of local machines, to do this you...
Windows Server 2008 Manageability Features: Group Policy Preferences, Part 2 The Local Administrator
On my previous post , I had a chance to take on Group Policy Preferences with a very quick very humble description of it. On our part 2 we will demo on "How to manage local administrator accounts on machines" which has been a one of the favorite...
Windows Server 2008 Manageability Feature: Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy Preference is a new feature to the Windows Server 2008 that enables you to configure other computer or user preferences that are not covered with Group Policy Settings. An example of which is the mapping network drives, which traditionally...
PHIWUG is @ the Computer World PH Magazine
Have you already seen the March 2009 copy of the Computer World mag? PHIWUG is featured under the Industry Group column, quoting it Community Sharing. As their slogan says, “Where IT pros in the Philippines meet together,” the Philippine Windows Users...
Thanks for attending March 24 2009 Makati Technet Session: Windows Server 2008 Manageability Features
Thank you so much for attending another TechNet session with the Philippine Windows User Group last March 24 2009. In this session, we had demo's on managing local and remote machines using Windows Server 2008’s Server Manager and in addition, we...
Internet Explorer 8 has been launched, ARE YOU READY? (Quick fix on IE8 Compatibility using IIS 7.0 HTTP response Headers)
If you have a website and is still not IE8 compliant you can use the IIS 7.0 HTTP response headers to make your IE7 based sites be viewed in IE 8 without any code changes Here are we have a few screenshots and the how to do it Read More...
Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder
Sometimes reporting a problem to the technical support is a problem of it self. Inconsistencies of statement, information lost between the conversation or you are just to lazy to post a screenshot (well, like me). With Windows 7: PSR, you can now record...
PHIWUG is @ the 2009 Career Booster Workshops!
The Philippine Windows Users Group has just participated on 2009 Career Booster Workshops and Career Day , a Microsoft Philippines, Microsoft Student Partners, and Microsoft Student2Business event for graduating IT students to help them ramp up their...
Windows 7 Virtual Roundtable Q&A - Part 1
Here's a good resource on your question about W7 from Springboard... http://blogs.technet.com/springboard/archive/2009/03/09/windows-7-virtual-roundtable-q-a-part-one.aspx Read More...
Talk about interoperability…
After attending the 2009 MVP summit a former colleague at SPI, Ariz Jacinto took me snowboarding at Snoqualmie it's about less than an hour drive from Seattle. While he was giving me pointers on how to ride the board our side topic was "User...
Windows 7: Multithread File Copy using Robocopy utility
Windows 7 has included a neat utility called robocopy . This is an advanced copy paste tool where you can define options such as copy everything but not empty subdirectories. Here are some screenshots and the steps on how to use robocopy. Read More.....
Windows 7: Removing Send Feedback link
You only want to do feedbacks on the desktop and you always accidentally click the send feedback link on the title bar of any window at W7? You can actually remove the send feedback link like what we have here: Here is a posting of a how-to that do this...
PHIWUG is at the Web Ramp Up!
Yes, we did not miss the biggest developer day in the Philippines! There are more photos here and directly in live photo album here . If you have more photo's of the ramp up, please do message me in the forums and I will add them up here. :D Read...