[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/admin_shell.ico) In Windows Vista, one of the first things I do on a new machine is create an "Admin Shell". The steps I do are as follows:- Copy the shortcut of your favorite command prompt (PowerShell or cmd.exe) Rename the shortcut "Admin Shell" or whatever you want.
Continue Reading Mickey Gousset has posted details of the new Team System training courses from Notion Solutions. What I think is very excited about this offering is that it is a proper "remote learning" initiative.
Continue Reading Sigh. Why do I only experience travel delays when I am coming home and never on the outbound journey? Last night, my first plane from New York to Belfast suffered a hydraulics failure. Luckily they had a spare airplane lying around that they then got cleaned up, filled up with gas etc and let us on.
Continue Reading As you may have seen elsewhere, the VSTS team will be available for you to talk with on Friday. This is a great opportunity to talk directly with the team, get answers direct from from the folks that know as well as pass along any feedback you might have.
Continue Reading [](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/VistaTopTipHowtogetTelnetBack_952B/vista%5B6%5D.png)When debugging network issues, I tend to fallback to good old telnet as a way of opening a port to a machine.
Continue Reading This is a follow-up to a post I made over a year ago. I'm popping over to the US for a couple of days this week and I am currently sat in Newark airport with the New York skyline out one window, and Ikea out the other.
Continue Reading Those of you lucky enough to have an MSDN subscription can go download Beta 1 very shortly, according to the announcement it is available now (but it isn't showing up in my MSDN subscription yet) - I suspect that the lovely bits on on the way through the MSDN distribution pipe as we speak.
Continue Reading The Team Foundation Server Version Control Proxy is a wonderful thing - despite the not so catchy name. It sits between a remote office and your Team Foundation Server Application Tier and caches requests for file downloads from that remote office so that the second person to request that version of that file will get...
Continue Reading [](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/YouarenotrunningVistaRemoteDesktopwarnin_9654/Remote%20Desktop%20Connection%5B5%5D.png) When running Remote Desktop from Windows Vista I've been getting the following error popping up everytime I connect.
Continue Reading At the recent MVP summit, I attended a Mash-up lounge event. It was a bit Web 2.0-ey, but basically they had a bunch of bean bags, fake palm trees, and members of the Windows Live team and some Virtual Earth MVP's around to help folks get up to speed with the Windows Live API's.
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