This summer HP is launching a brand new Extender for Windows Media Center device - the HP MediaSmart Connect. The HP MediaSmart Connect will let you wirelessly stream your Windows Media Center experience including content such as Live TV, Recorded TV Shows, Music, Photos and Videos to any TV in your home using your wireless or wired home network. And I've got some information below on how you can attend online webinars put on by HP and Microsoft giving you a first-hand look at the HP MediaSmart Connect! Read on...

Extenders for Windows Media Center are devices that are designed to "extend" the Windows Media Center experience from a centralized Windows Media Center PC running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate to any room in your home with a TV using a personal home network.

The HP MediaSmart Connect packs quite a punch. You can stream recorded or live HD content from your PC to your TV as well as take advantage of Windows Media Center's Internet TV Beta - which I blogged about here a few months ago. With Internet TV Beta - you can watch movie clips, movie

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Server 2008 is out and one of the very cool features is NAP or Network Access Protection.  This feature allow you to protect the internal network from threats.  There is a nice entry on Wikipedia explaining NAP but the TLA way is to show you the quick steps to get it done.  While I could write it out I figured video would be cool as well and since I had the videos from the Canadian Heroes Happen {Here} events I got real lazy and am posting those :)  Over the next while I'll get up the rest of the videos as well so check back soon.

If you want to give these demos a try yourself be sure to grab the lab build guide and demo scripts here!

Hello everyone, and a special hello to new TLA readers from TechEd. For readers that could not attend TechEd, (wish you were here!) I presented at TechEd's Demo Idol! The session was on the virtues of being a Lazy Admin. In the session I mentioned some great Microsoft products that really help LazyAdmins stay Lazy Admins. I wanted to post the links to those products, resources:

Infrastructure Optimization:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/infrastructure/default.aspx

There is also a site dedicated to Microsoft Partners that has really great resources:

http://www.microsoftio.com/

Microsoft Operations Framework:

You can download the document separately or read them online here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx

Microsoft solutions accelerators:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/default.aspx

I hope everyone who was there enjoyed my demo, feel free to contact me with any questions you might have about the demo, the site, or anything!

2007/10/windows-vista-unlocks-news-tips-and.html” > Some tips are really useful that it can make your life easier day by  day. Do you remember the 2008/05/quick-tip-windows-vista-power-button.html” >previous tip that when you install Windows Vista and pressed the Start menu shutdown button, instead of shutting down it turns your computer to sleep? How about the 2008/03/shutdown-restart-lock-sleep-or.html” >Middle Mouse Button Hack? Here’s another Create a shortcut and use Shortcut Key!

 

1. Right-Click your desktop > New > Shortcut

2. Use and paste the commands below

Shutdown your Computer Shutdown.exe -s -t 00 - Force all applications to close and shutdown immediately Shutdown.exe -s      (After 30s…)

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If you are like me, you were brought to Windows Vista kicking and screaming. All of the flash and lights just do not seem to be worth all of the broken drivers, slow boots, and frequent crashes.

Microsoft is trying to sunset XP as quickly as they can, and after June 30th it will be much more difficult to get your hands on it. Microsoft released a statement a few days ago saying: "Windows XP will no longer be available for purchase from Microsoft for general retail and OEM partners as of June 30, 2008."

That seems like there is no way around it, but MS is not telling the whole story with that press release. If an OEM, or a computer store still has copies of XP, or machines with XP installed - they can still sell them as long as they please. The same is true for computer makers like Dell, and HP.

Additionally hardware makers like Dell, and HP are selling their higher end Vista machines with 'Downgrade' rights. This means if you are not pleased with Vista, and want to switch back you can call them up and get an XP disk to...