Windows 8.1 General announcements
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Link
See the Windows Team Blog and the Windows for your Business Blog.
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Link
Windows 8 is now avaialable to MDSN and TechNet subscribers. We are in the process of moving all the threads in the Windows 8 forums to a new "Pre-release" forum. This process is expected to happen today (8/15/2012) around 3pm Pacific time, so please bear with us as these are moved.
Are you looking for Windows 8 Pro? See this forum post.
Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment announcements
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Link
October 31, 2014, is the end of license (EOL) date for Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7
Home Premium, and Windows 7 Home Basic. After this date, system builders will
no longer be able to order these products from authorized distributors. Windows
7 Professional will continue to be available from authorized distributors until
its EOL date is announced.
Learn about EOL and the Windows lifecycle. -
Link
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.
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Link
MDT 2012 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175
Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility announcements
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Link
Find Windows 7 compatibility status for thousands of hardware devices and direct links to drivers.
-
Link
Determine if your hardware is compatibile with Windows 7 - - Details about the MAP toolkit can be found on this post.
Windows 7 Application Compatibility announcements
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Link
Are you making plans to deploy Windows 7 in your enterprise in the next 6 – 18 months? Are your plans being delayed or complicated by applications that will not work on Windows 7? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) can be used to address the “compatibility gaps” of your enterprise and accelerate the move to Windows 7.
Get an overview of the MED-V solution at www.microsoft.com/medv. To learn about the MED-V v.2 release and participate in TAP or Beta programs email medvtap@microsoft.com.
-
Link
Investigate the current compatibility status of third party applications using the downloadable Windows 7 Application Compatibility list for IT Pros in XLXS format.
-
Link
Find Windows 7 compatibility status for thousands of applications and direct links to updates.
-
Link
Determine if your applications are compatibile with Windows 7 - Details about the MAP toolkit can be found on this post.
-
Link
Inventory, assess, and prepare your applications for Windows 7! ACT 5.5 allows you to assess Windows 7 and IE8 compatibility, control information sent to the Compatibility Exchange, and label data collection packages by role. Want the inside scoop? Check out this Springboard Series blog interview with Jeremy Chapman, Windows Senior Product Manager.
You can download ACT 5.5 here.
Windows 7 Security announcements
Windows 7 User Interface announcements
Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode announcements
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Link
Are you making plans to deploy Windows 7 in your enterprise in the next 6 – 18 months? Are your plans being delayed or complicated by applications that will not work on Windows 7? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) can be used to address the “compatibility gaps” of your enterprise and accelerate the move to Windows 7.
Get an overview of the MED-V solution at www.microsoft.com/medv. To learn about the MED-V v.2 release and participate in TAP or Beta programs email medvtap@microsoft.com.
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Link
Details can be found on the Windows Team Blog.
Windows Vista Announcements announcements
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Link
Test drive the most advanced Microsoft operating system, instantly!
Windows 7 Test Drive for IT Professionals
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Link
More information can be found on the Windows Enterprise Product Support Page or the Support Lifecycle Blog.
Windows Vista Service Packs/Windows Server 2008 Service Packs announcements
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Link
Today we are proud to announce the Release to Manufacturing of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Service Pack 2 (SP2) represents the latest step in Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement. It includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards. And since it comes with a single installer for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, SP2 will be easy for IT Pros to manage, deploy, and support. For an overview of the changes introduced in SP2, check out the notable changes document.
Business customers with Windows Vista will find that the transition to Windows 7 will be significantly more straightforward due to the high degree of compatibility between Windows Vista and Windows 7. If your Windows Vista SP1 deployment is already underway we recommend you continue with SP1 as planned. Then you can deploy SP2 using your systems management infrastructure. If you are in the early stages of deployment or still planning Windows Vista deployment our best advice is that you plan on testing and deploying Windows Vista SP2.
More information can be found on the Windows Team Blog.
Windows Vista Application Compatibility Toolkit announcements
-
Link
Inventory, assess, and prepare your applications for Windows 7!
ACT 5.5 allows you to assess Windows 7 and IE8 compatibility, control information sent to the Compatibility Exchange, and label data collection packages by role. Want the inside scoop? Check out this Springboard Series blog interview with Jeremy Chapman, Windows Senior Product Manager.
You can download ACT 5.5 here.
Windows Vista Desktop UI announcements
Windows Vista Security announcements
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unable to install RSAT for 1903
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Visual Studio 2019 Pro : downloads
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Windows 10 1903 Policy Settings Spreadsheet
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Windows 10 Pro For Workstation Annoyingly Slow To Start And Restart
A recently purchased Lenovo Workstation P720 PC with the following specification: One Intel Xeon Silver 4208 CPU (8Core) base speed 2.1GHz; 32GB DDR4 2933 ECC RDIMM; M.2 NVME SSD PCIe ...Unanswered | 7 Replies | 215 Views | Created by Allwinde - Friday, December 6, 2019 2:26 PM | Last reply by Allwinde - 49 minutes ago -
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Start Menu multipe shortcuts to the same application
Hello, We are running Windows 10 anniversary edition version 1607 (build 14393.447) and came across a quirk/issue of the Windows 10 Start Menu. If you try to add ...Unanswered | 5 Replies | 2516 Views | Created by zx6dude - Monday, November 28, 2016 11:45 AM | Last reply by Jesus I - 59 minutes ago -
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NCSI Active Probe not working
I have a single PC that wont perform the active probe for internet detection via NCSI. All other PC's are fine and the correct ports are open through the firewall etc. Looking in ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 62 Views | Created by Drhexuk - 3 hours 10 minutes ago | Last reply by S.Sengupta - 1 hour 15 minutes ago -
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Win 10 Hyper-V Guest, Gen2, won't install OS from .iso: Using Virtual Hard Disk
I have a Win 10 Pro Hyper-V Host that works fine. I created a Hyper-V "Gen 1" Guest on this machine and it works fine but when I created a "Gen 2" Guest (with ...Answered | 19 Replies | 45612 Views | Created by Jecj - Saturday, February 6, 2016 7:12 PM | Last reply by LalitSen - 1 hour 28 minutes ago -
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Huawei P8 Lite Android Phone connects to Windows 10 as CD drive
When I connect my phone via USB cable the phone connects as both a phone and a CD drive (Drive F). Phone repeatedly disconnects and reconnects. I've deleted the device and reconnected then ...Answered | 3 Replies | 104 Views | Created by Unstonian - 20 hours 8 minutes ago | Last reply by Unstonian - 1 hour 39 minutes ago -
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Windows 10 Free Upgrade License and Audit Compliance
Hi, We had upgraded Windows 7 Pre-Installed OEM (Which came with HP / Dell Workstations) to Windows 10 in the year of 2016 when Microsoft announced a pubic free ...Unanswered | 2 Replies | 62 Views | Created by Kamath Surendra - Monday, December 9, 2019 1:54 PM | Last reply by Kamath Surendra - 3 hours 1 minutes ago -
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Windows 10 Single Language Upgrade to Pro
Hi Guys, I have tried everything I can think of but nothing works. The laptop has a digital license in the firmware and no matter what I do I can not override it in the OS ... -
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mouse and keyboard stop working
after my 2 week old ( new ) my all in one, windows 10 preinstalled unit started to act up. after the unit goes to sleep, I push the key board and the computer starts up ...Unanswered | 2 Replies | 60 Views | Created by CDS1111 - 9 hours 22 minutes ago | Last reply by Kapil.Arya - 3 hours 26 minutes ago -
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Best practices Windows 10 LAN / WLAN Switching
Hello, we got the following situation in our company. We got many users working on a laptop connected to a docking station. When they plug in to the docking station they often ...Unanswered | 8 Replies | 707 Views | Created by kai.holzer - Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:00 PM | Last reply by kai.holzer - 3 hours 28 minutes ago -
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Problem with USB Network drivers. (not sure if networking or hardware)
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Disable/Turn Off Caret Browsing popup in Windows 10 Lock Screen
Hi, My client doesn't want to see the "Caret browsing" popup window on Lock screen if they press F7. Is there any possibilities to disable this? Here it is not related to ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 35 Views | Created by Pratap Mahale - 8 hours 10 minutes ago | Last reply by Carl Fan - 4 hours 16 minutes ago -
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RAW Bitlocker Drive - File Recovery
Hi, We have a Bitlocker encrypted USB Drive that is now showing as RAW Mounted and inaccessible (Without formatting it). I've attempt a couple different ...Proposed | 2 Replies | 284 Views | Created by OrionRY - Wednesday, August 28, 2019 2:51 PM | Last reply by Ferto - 4 hours 16 minutes ago -
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[Windows 10 1909] Language Pack and search bar issue with KB4524570 - unexpected behavior
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Pure standalone W10 Local machine no longer accepts simple user account password after Feature Update
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How to unpin Microsoft Edge from task bar for all users?
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Windows 8.1 General announcements
-
Link
See the Windows Team Blog and the Windows for your Business Blog.
- Link
-
Link
Windows 8 is now avaialable to MDSN and TechNet subscribers. We are in the process of moving all the threads in the Windows 8 forums to a new "Pre-release" forum. This process is expected to happen today (8/15/2012) around 3pm Pacific time, so please bear with us as these are moved.
Are you looking for Windows 8 Pro? See this forum post.
Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment announcements
-
Link
October 31, 2014, is the end of license (EOL) date for Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7
Home Premium, and Windows 7 Home Basic. After this date, system builders will
no longer be able to order these products from authorized distributors. Windows
7 Professional will continue to be available from authorized distributors until
its EOL date is announced.
Learn about EOL and the Windows lifecycle. -
Link
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.
-
Link
MDT 2012 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&=tm&id=25175
Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility announcements
-
Link
Find Windows 7 compatibility status for thousands of hardware devices and direct links to drivers.
-
Link
Determine if your hardware is compatibile with Windows 7 - - Details about the MAP toolkit can be found on this post.
Windows 7 Application Compatibility announcements
-
Link
Are you making plans to deploy Windows 7 in your enterprise in the next 6 – 18 months? Are your plans being delayed or complicated by applications that will not work on Windows 7? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) can be used to address the “compatibility gaps” of your enterprise and accelerate the move to Windows 7.
Get an overview of the MED-V solution at www.microsoft.com/medv. To learn about the MED-V v.2 release and participate in TAP or Beta programs email medvtap@microsoft.com.
-
Link
Investigate the current compatibility status of third party applications using the downloadable Windows 7 Application Compatibility list for IT Pros in XLXS format.
-
Link
Find Windows 7 compatibility status for thousands of applications and direct links to updates.
-
Link
Determine if your applications are compatibile with Windows 7 - Details about the MAP toolkit can be found on this post.
-
Link
Inventory, assess, and prepare your applications for Windows 7! ACT 5.5 allows you to assess Windows 7 and IE8 compatibility, control information sent to the Compatibility Exchange, and label data collection packages by role. Want the inside scoop? Check out this Springboard Series blog interview with Jeremy Chapman, Windows Senior Product Manager.
You can download ACT 5.5 here.
Windows 7 Security announcements
Windows 7 User Interface announcements
Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode announcements
-
Link
Are you making plans to deploy Windows 7 in your enterprise in the next 6 – 18 months? Are your plans being delayed or complicated by applications that will not work on Windows 7? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) can be used to address the “compatibility gaps” of your enterprise and accelerate the move to Windows 7.
Get an overview of the MED-V solution at www.microsoft.com/medv. To learn about the MED-V v.2 release and participate in TAP or Beta programs email medvtap@microsoft.com.
-
Link
Details can be found on the Windows Team Blog.
Windows Vista Announcements announcements
- Link
-
Link
Test drive the most advanced Microsoft operating system, instantly!
Windows 7 Test Drive for IT Professionals
-
Link
More information can be found on the Windows Enterprise Product Support Page or the Support Lifecycle Blog.
Windows Vista Service Packs/Windows Server 2008 Service Packs announcements
-
Link
Today we are proud to announce the Release to Manufacturing of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Service Pack 2 (SP2) represents the latest step in Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement. It includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards. And since it comes with a single installer for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, SP2 will be easy for IT Pros to manage, deploy, and support. For an overview of the changes introduced in SP2, check out the notable changes document.
Business customers with Windows Vista will find that the transition to Windows 7 will be significantly more straightforward due to the high degree of compatibility between Windows Vista and Windows 7. If your Windows Vista SP1 deployment is already underway we recommend you continue with SP1 as planned. Then you can deploy SP2 using your systems management infrastructure. If you are in the early stages of deployment or still planning Windows Vista deployment our best advice is that you plan on testing and deploying Windows Vista SP2.
More information can be found on the Windows Team Blog.
Windows Vista Application Compatibility Toolkit announcements
-
Link
Inventory, assess, and prepare your applications for Windows 7!
ACT 5.5 allows you to assess Windows 7 and IE8 compatibility, control information sent to the Compatibility Exchange, and label data collection packages by role. Want the inside scoop? Check out this Springboard Series blog interview with Jeremy Chapman, Windows Senior Product Manager.
You can download ACT 5.5 here.
