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Matt (e-learning technologist @ UCL) just let me discover this very simple and fast cloud application. EtherPad is sort of a online collaborative draft editing tool that lets you create public (cookies-and unique URL-based) or private (user-authentication) “pads”. The creator or any invited participant can invite other participant for simultaneously or asynchronously co-editing the pad. [...]

You’ve sequenced hundreds of packages for App-V 4.x. You did it for Windows XP or Vista. And now you want to use these packages for your new client OS, for instance Windows 7… So you need to add the XML tag <OS VALUE="Win7"/> in each single OSD file… This utility is for you! Download Add_OS_to_OSD.zip [...]

Would you really like to manage your server core with the mouse? Here is a solution: the CoreConfigurator

Real men don’t click and will use BCDEdit.exe and/or the BCD WMI providers (find the classes here) The other will user System Properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery or MSConfig.exe… I found EasyBCD, which is both didactic and powerfull, what might make me less real, but more effective…

The Hyper-V management tools (MMC snap-in and associated UI) are now available for download: x86: Update for Windows Vista (KB949758) x64: Update for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB949758) These tools allow you to manage and interact with an installation of Hyper-V from your Vista computer in exactly the same manner that you do on a [...]

The long awaited admin pack for Windows Vista SP1, the successor of adminpack.msi called RSAT is availbale for download: Download: Remote Server Administration Tools (x86) Download: Remote Server Administration Tools (x64) After installation of the update: Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Programs. In the Programs and Features area, click Turn Windows features [...]