FREE: Cool Microsoft Setup Chainer With a Wacky Name Wednesday, November 12 2008 @ 03:55 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy One of the little setup gems unveiled at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference was a setup chainer ... read more FREE: Windows 7 Microsoft Conference Sessions Thursday, November 6 2008 @ 12:53 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has published all the sessions from the Professional Developers Conference online, many on Windows 7 ... read more Vista's Aero interface is hard on batteries Friday, September 5 2008 @ 02:57 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Here's a utility that lets you get some of that battery life back... read more PREVIEW: LUA Buglight 2.0 Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:42 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The fans of this very helpful tool will be happy to know there was a new preview version released at TechEd... read more RELEASED: Updated Application Compatibility Toolkit Documentation Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:36 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Application Compatiblity Toolkit has long suffered from insufficient documentation - Microsoft has recognized this and has updated the docs... read more New Post Categories App Mgmt and Vista Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:27 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have two new post categories that are linked on the home page - "Application Management" and "Vista"... read more Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool - Don't Ignore It. Tuesday, June 10 2008 @ 05:01 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This tool is easy to overlook - but if you will be working on bringing applications forward to Vista or later, it's worth a look... read more FREE: Vista Trial in a Virtual Machine - without buying a copy of Vista Monday, December 10 2007 @ 03:48 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy As far as I can tell there has been no official evaluation DVD for Vista since RC1 (correct me if I'm wrong) - you can build a evaluation build of any version of Vista from any Vista media, but what if you can't get access to your company media and need to start testing - or you're looking to check it out for professional development.  Microsoft's "VHD Test Drive" site to the rescue ... read more FREE: Microsoft Virtual Server Management and Remote Control Utility (VMRCplus) Monday, July 9 2007 @ 12:25 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Virtual Server 2005 has gained a new tool for remote management and control ... read more Application Compatibility 5.0 Update Tuesday, May 8 2007 @ 09:45 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The Application Compatibility Toolkit Version 5 was updated with performance improvements and bugfixes ... read more FREE: Vista Distribution Tool - Build Any Vista Distribution Source from Upgrade CD Friday, April 20 2007 @ 10:46 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Maybe like me you receive the Vista "Upgrade" CD with your Microsoft software subscription (ActionPack in my case) and are wondering how that will help you get going with your Vista customers since you have to muck about with doing an upgrade to a previous OS - vlite gets around this and does much, much more ... read more FREE: IZArc Zip Utility Wednesday, March 7 2007 @ 12:39 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy I hate paying for every little piece of utility software I need because it adds up so fast.  The search for a free zip utility that can handle archiving Virtual Machines is over ... read more RELEASED: FREE Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Friday, March 2 2007 @ 01:44 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Virtual PC 2007 has been released and it's gonna cost you ... read more Getting Vista into a Virtual Machine Tuesday, January 23 2007 @ 04:19 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Now that it's released, you want to play with Vista in a virtual machine?  Here is a good article with tips and tricks for getting Vista loaded into a VMWare or Virtual PC virtual machine ... read more JUST RELEASED: Vista Deployment Tools - BDD 2007 1.0 Thursday, January 18 2007 @ 10:29 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The Business Desktop Deployment 2007 offering includes documentation, project planning information and the Windows Automated Installation Kit... read more Standard User Analyzer for Vista is Released (1.0.1.700) Saturday, September 30 2006 @ 09:25 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Vista feature for "Standard User" sounds cool, but you really wonder how many of your legacy applications will be able to use the mode?  This utility monitors your application and gives a very detailed report on whether it will likely run under Vista's "Standard User"... read more New Vesion of Microsoft AppVerifier Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 09:53 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy A new version of Microsoft's Application Verifier (part of the Applcation Compatibility Toolkit) includes "Print Verifier", reinstatement of checking operating system compatibliity for Windows Logo and ThreadPool checking.  read more Microsoft Standard User Analyzer for application compatibility Monday, May 29 2006 @ 12:22 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Vista feature for "Standard User" sounds cool, but you really wonder how many of your legacy applications will be able to use the mode?  This utility monitors your application and gives a very detailed report on whether it will likely run under Vista's "Standard User"... read more Two MSH/Monad Webcasts by Microsoft Monday, April 17 2006 @ 04:30 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Late last year Microsoft did a couple webcasts on their new shell scripting environment... read more Monad Beta 3 Released Monday, January 23 2006 @ 03:50 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Beta 3 of Monad has been released... read more Monad portal at Microsoft Script Center Tuesday, December 13 2005 @ 02:22 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The scripting guys have opened the doors on their new portal for Monad.  Lots of good stuff here... read more New Virtual Machine Blog Cateogory and RSS Feed Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 01:39 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have added a new category and RSS feed to DesktopEngineer.com for news about Virtual Machines... read more Monad / MSH Sample Scripts Tuesday, November 8 2005 @ 09:29 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has provided some samples scripts for MHS on the resource kit site... read more Monad Architect Talks About Shell Scripting Futures Wednesday, October 26 2005 @ 02:42 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Jeffery Snover designed WMIC, then he kicked the whole idea into overdrive and architected Monad (or Microsoft Shell - MSH).  In this Oct 18th video clip he talks about what led... read more Monad Documentation Pack Saturday, October 8 2005 @ 07:59 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This documentation pack includes and 80 page getting started guide, a trifold quick reference and three hands on labs from the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). read more Vista / .NET 2.0 Click Once Application Deployment Tuesday, October 4 2005 @ 11:21 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Windows Vista is touting the new Click Once application deployment mechanism.  This new mechanism could prove challenging for administrators since developers can begin to do their own "pull" updates to client computers simply by putting the right files on a ... read more Microsoft's Monad: Nuclear Arsenal for Shell Scripting Tuesday, September 27 2005 @ 10:35 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The advent of .NET and the almost simultaneous halting of Windows Scripting Host updates made me thing Microsoft had lost it's vision on scripting.  And although the very rich Monad scripting / command shell environment has a stated goal of edging you closer to native .NET programming, I'm still glad scripting on Microsoft platforms is being enhanced... read more