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Get Green and Stay Green with Windows Live OneCare

To help celebrate St. Patrick's Today - the Windows Live OneCare Team is kicking off a brand new campaign: Get Green Stay Green.

The Get Green Stay Green campaign is designed to make sure Windows Live OneCare users are staying "green" - meaning their PC Health Status. Here is Amy Barzdukas, Senior Direct here at Microsoft, to talk about Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC safe. Amy leads the Windows Live OneCare Team.


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I use Windows Live OneCare on my 3 personal home PCs - which are connected together in an OneCare Circle (you can have up to 3 PCs in an OneCare Circle). This lets me manage the PC Health for all my personal PCs. If any of my PCs in my OneCare Circle have their PC Health Status change to yellow or red, I can quickly see which PC it is and why. I can then do what is needed to bring that PC back to green. Keeping all my PCs green is very important to me. If any of my PCs slip into

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Written by Brandon LeBlanc on March 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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TrueCrypt Is Cool

My business requires me to safeguard the security of certain files. For years I have used Encrypted Magic Folders (EMF) from PC-Magic to encrypt those files, and to hide them from the view of an interloper. I loved it, because files were always encrypted on disk and yet were fully accessible to applications. However, when I upgraded to Vista 64, the new EMF crashed my system so completely that it was unbootable even in safe mode. I tried it twice, recovered twice with some difficulty, and gave up on EMF.

In the meantime I had heard about TrueCrypt, an open-source disk encryption package for Windows and Linux. It’s free! I must admit that after I downloaded it, I needed some time to get my mind around it.

Here are the basics:

  • Using the TrueCrypt application you create a large “container” file on your system, larger than you will need to hold your encrypted files. It can be on any read/write disk, even a memory stick, and is initially filled with random data.
  • The container file can be copied, moved, deleted, or renamed just like any other file. It’s not fragile.

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Written by Don on December 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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Rolling out Windows Home Server with a HP MediaSmart Server

HP MediaSmart Server

This weekend I completed the roll-out of my new HP MediaSmart Server running Windows Home Server.  I ordered the HP MediaSmart Server EX470. I originally had Windows Home Server running on my Dell Dimension E520 but decommissioned it when I created my “Ultimate” PC. I really wanted to try out the experience the average consumer will have in purchasing a Windows Home Server and setting it up in their home. The HP MediaSmart Server seemed like the perfect choice in checking out the Windows Home Server experience.

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The HP MediaSmart Server EX470 has the following specs:

  • Processor - AMD 1.8GHz 64-bit Sempron
  • Memory - 512MB DDR
  • Interfaces - 4 USB 2.0 Ports, 1 eSATA Port
  • Storage - 1 500GB SATA 7200 RPM

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Written by Brandon LeBlanc on December 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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RAID Backup

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Usually, a person needs a backup when their disk drive fails. All disk drives fail sometime - there is no escape from that truth. But there are other reasons for keeping good backups:

  • Total disaster, such as a fire or flood that destroys the whole computer and all nearby backups.
  • Deliberate mischief, such as a virus that deletes important files.
  • Accidental deletion or modification of one or more files.

I’m sure there are more reasons, but if we cover these we’ll probably have the rest covered.

Drive Failure:

Disk drive failure can mostly be avoided by using two mirrored drives in a configuration known as RAID 1. RAID means Redundant Array of Independent Drives, and has several well-defined levels. RAID 1 is a simple comfiguration with two drives which always contain exactly the same information, hence the term “mirrored.” If either drive fails, the other simply becomes the system’s sole drive and takes over without a hitch. Since the probability of two drives failing at once is very small, RAID 1 pretty well covers that problem. The new computer here employs RAID 1.

Total Disaster:

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Written by Don on December 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Back Me Up, Buttercup


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I have reviewed online backup services before, but I never bit the bullet and signed up for any of them. I didn’t want to pay to access my data, and I didn’t like not knowing where exactly the “remote location” was that stored my data. Today I received an email about another service, which gave me a review account.

Crash Plan appears to have taken all the good elements of other online backup services and rolled them into one. For a $20.00, one-time fee, you get the software that will allow you to remotely backup 50 GB of data. Yes… I said 50. There are bigger plans for more money as well as a monthly subscription service.

The cool thing is that this is completely cross platform. You can back up the data from your Windows machine to your Mac. You can back up the Mac data to your Linux box. You can take the… you get the picture. To me, that alone is worth the $20.00. To be able to back up each of my systems

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Written by Chris Pirillo on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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