Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

September 29, 2021

How to remove shared permissions from OneNote

 

In this short article, I'm going to explain how you can get rid of the permission you have already granted to your OneNote notebooks for others.


To change the current permission, you have to go to "File" menu & choose "Share" or you can click on the "Share" button in top right hand corner.


May 28, 2021

The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet


I was trying to connect to Azure for the first time using power shell the other day and ended up with below error message.


 

Connect-AzAccount : The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. 
At line:1 char:1 
+ Connect-AzAccount 
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-AzAccount:String) [],
CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

The command I was using to connect was Connect-AzAccount

October 24, 2013

Missing Backup UI In Windows Server 2012

For older windows server operating systems like windows server 2003, backup program call "NTBackup" was there under the system tools section when it was installed for the first time. In Microsoft's latest windows server operating system called "Windows Server 2012" Windows Server Backup is not installed on default. It's located as a "feature" and need to be installed separately. You can do it by going in to the server manager window and choosing "Add Roles and Features" under the "Manage" menu item. But today's post is not about installing windows server backup feature. It's about recovering from a missing user interface for the windows server backup on Windows Server 2012.

March 9, 2012

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The Operating system giant Microsoft releases their latest creation as Windows 8 Consumer Preview which will allow you to download and try their latest Windows operating system for free. The first different you will noticed after installing it on your computer is the new Metro UI which will replace your standard desktop and start menu. Also multi-touch features on the operating system allows users to interact with it in more interesting way.There are lot of new features in there to keep the user attached to the computer all the time. With all this please keep in your mind that this consumer previews eventually expire and will block all your access to your programs and stored files and folders. The best thing is to do is to have this on your secondary computer or may be in dual boot mode on a other hard disk partition. But according to the digging I have done it will most probably active until next year which is 2013 so, you have plenty of time to check it out.

June 21, 2011

This copy of Windows must be activated before you can log on

If you have read my previous post about "How to Activate Windows XP Without a Product Key" I'm pretty sure that you will need to read this also. There is a possibility that you will receive a error message which says "This copy of Windows must be activated before you can log on" after 30 days. Since you have already activated the windows it will not allow you to go to the desktop. So what do you do to log back in ?

June 16, 2011

How to Activate Windows XP Without a Product Key

Did you just install, or reinstall Windows XP on your Computer, and when you are trying to activate the software, Microsoft says that your product key is not genuine, the product is no longer available for retail sale, or the number of activations have been exceeded? It may ask you to call Microsoft to get a new product key, or purchase windows 7.

October 24, 2009

Windows 7 Release

Windows 7 Release is an old news now since it happens on 22nd of October 2009. But the excitement to have a newer Microsoft Operating system is always very huge. With the bad feed back which they got for their previous Operating system "Windows Vista" Microsoft promise this will be the replacement for all those problems. But Apple (Other main competitor in Operating system industry) is not sure about this promise and decided to use this for their new commercial. But Windows 7 become the biggest pre-order item in the history of Amazon UK. After 8 long years since Microsoft has released Windows XP now Microsoft users have a solid operating system that can replace their Windows XP computers.

August 9, 2009

Windows 7 Release To Manufacturing

Microsoft announced that you'll be able to get the final shipping product for Microsoft Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. If you need to try it before you buy it, still there is a chance. You can still download the Release Candidate (RC) but you can only download it until August 20, 2009. Like to know more about Windows 7 release candidate ? Click here to go to my older post about Windows 7 Release Candidate. If you have access to MSDN or TechNet Plus subscription Windows 7 RTM is available for you to download. Currently only the English version is available to download.




According to the Windows 7 Team Blog On October 1st, the remaining languages will be released. You can download Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 7 Ultimate both 64 bit (X64) and 32 bit (X86) editions from there. So, even this time they made 6 editions to make it difficult to choose one as same as they done with Windows Vista release earlier.

For more information,

Visit Microsoft Windows 7 Official website from here

For a cool Tour in Windows 7 click here


August 6, 2009

Terminal Server Printer Redirection Wizard Tool

If you are not sure what is Terminal Server Printer Redirection is let me explain it to you. If you ever logged in to your working place terminal server to worked from you home computer or may be from your laptop? Most of the time you'll use the remote desktop tool in order to connect to the terminal server. Did you able to print something from the server to your personal printer at your home or wherever you are ? Most of the time you can't. Printer redirection help you to achieve this task. But you may need assistance from your system administrator. Because you need to install the printer drivers on the server first. If it is not printing after that you may want to use this tool on your terminal server. I'm highly recommending this tool for system administrators out there who's facing these types of printing problems.

June 20, 2009

Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

While you are working on your computer, did you ever failed to install a program? And then when you try to install it for the second time was it keep failing every time. May be you have some programs on your computer that can’t be removed. This problem may occurred if you have corrupted installation files for those programs which you are trying to uninstall.

May 20, 2009

Windows 7 Installation

I have downloaded my copy of Windows 7 RC last week. The I decided to install it on my home computer which runs on Windows XP Professional. I have a very old Pentium 4 computer so, before the installation I want to check whether my computer suits for Windows 7. I have checked the minimum requirements for it from the Windows 7 Official website from Microsoft. It was Ok. So I have insert the disc to the drive and started the windows setup on top of Windows XP.




The initial screens were very beautiful. May be the most beautiful setup screens I have ever seen for a Operating system installation.






It's going to download some files from the internet to make every thing working smooth.






Have to Accept the Licenses Agreement.



Because I'm running it on top of Windows XP it's prompted me to upgrade it or to install a fresh installation on a different partition.



So, I have selected a empty partition for a new installation. (I don't want to say good bye to Windows XP, not yet ! )



File copying progress.




After few restarts everything was installed. If you interested in what's new on Windows 7 RC please watch this video. You might want to install Microsoft Silverlight to view this video. Don't worry you can always download it from the given link on the page.

May 10, 2009

Speed up your computer using windows system tools

When you are using your computer for many months and years without reinstalling the operating system most of the time it is getting slower and slower with the time. No matter how good your computer hardware is this might happen to you. I'm using Microsoft Windows XP as my operating system both in my home and office. I'm not sure that these facts are applying to the other operating systems because I'm not using them. So, if you're using Windows as your operating system, you have few system tools to tweak and speed up your computer. Follow this path on your windows system to access these system tools.

May 5, 2009

Windows 7 Release Candidate

Microsoft just launch the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing program. What it does is you can download a pre-release copy of Windows 7 on to your computer. The RC will be available at least through July 2009 and they're not limiting the number of product keys, so you have plenty of time to download it. Once you have downloaded it and install it to your PC, it will automatically and anonymously send Microsoft engineers the information they need to verify the fixes and changes they made based on the Windows 7 Beta tests.

In order to install this Windows 7 release your computer should meet with these system requirements.

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

You can download both 32bit and 64bit versions of it and Windows 7 RC are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Go to this URL and start downloading your copy today.

The RC copy of Windows 7 will expire on June 1, 2010 and starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. So keep that in your mind too.

March 31, 2009

Protect yourself from the Conficker computer worm

Microsoft has released a news about a new virus is going to release on April 1st 2009. This is called Conficker computer worm and this worm can infect your computer and spread itself to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction.

Most antivirus software could detect and block the Conficker worm, so if you have updated antivirus software on your computer, you are at a much lower risk of being infected by the Conficker worm.




So double check you are running any virus protecting program in your computer and make sure it is up to date.

If you need more information about this computer virus please visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx web site.

March 29, 2009

Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft has releases their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 last week. According to a PC world blog post IE 8 managed to break the 2 percent mark within a day of its release last Thursday. But after that with a steady decline, Internet Explorer 8 dropped down to 1.86 percent of the market by Monday morning. With this IE release, browser's market share for IE has fallen down little bit and Safari, Opera and Firefox web browsers have gain slight while Chrome has remained constant.





This version of IE has better tab handling, a niftier search bar, a more useful address bar, and new tools that deliver information directly from other Web pages and services. IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called "porn mode," new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy.

If you like to try this product visit Internet Explorer 8 home page.

March 15, 2009

Find Your Product Keys Using Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications.

Data Recovery With Get Data Back For NTFS

Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard disk drives.

So, think that you have accidentally format or delete a partition on your hard drive. Maybe you have accidentally deleted a folder or a file. With the help of Get Data Back For NTFS program now you can recover all your lost data on your hard drive.



January 30, 2009

What's Inside Windows 7

Few days ago I have installed Windows 7 on a test computer. But I haven't got a time to check it. But today I thought to make a post about it. In this post you'll find some of the new things that included with windows 7. I'm writing this post using the same windows 7 computer.


Before we start; I'll let you people know my system configuration for this test computer.

Processor : Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz
RAM : 1.5 GB DDR 1
VGA : Geforce FX 5200 (AGP) 128MB
Hard Drive : 80 GB SATA
Optical Drive : Standard DVD ROM

That gives me a Rating of 2.0 on windows experience Index.




First thing I did notice was It's almost like windows Vista. But there are lot of changes have been made to it. The Task bar is changed. You won't have longer names displayed on it any more. It's just showing the program Icon now. If you open couple of windows for same program it's still showing you one Icon. But if you move your mouse over it, it will display all. Show desktop button has moved to the right hand coner of the taskbar.








One other change that i have noticed was when I’m taking the screen shots; they have changed the Microsoft Paint program. Now it's look like Microsoft office 2007 application. You can do many more things now with the paint program.





It's coming with Internet Explorer 8. So far I didn't find any errors on it.






Control pannel is little bit changed but pretty much same as windows vista. What's new is now you have a button called "All control pannel items" that's take you to the classic control pannel. Security center renamed as Action center in here and you'll find new item called "Biometric Devices" that's allow you to manage your finger print recognition device which help you to log in to the system.





Windows calculator is really good looking in Windows 7. Other than old Standard and Scientific mode it does have programmer mode and statistics mode. It's really cool.





Finally I found few more things as Sticky notes, new games and a cool resource monitor program.

January 12, 2009

Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview

Windows 7 is the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Now you have the chance to download the Windows 7 Beta from Microsoft Tech Net website. Download it today because Microsoft is making this pre-release version of Windows 7 available to the first 2.5 million people who download.

Don’t install the Beta on your primary home or work computer. When the Beta expires on August 1, 2009, you’ll need to reinstall a released version of Windows to keep using your computer, so try this on some other computer. These are the Microsoft minimum hardware recommendations for systems that will be running the Windows 7 Beta.





* Processor : 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
* Memory : 1 GB of system memory
* Hard drive : 16 GB of available disk space
* Video card : Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (to enable Aero theme)
* Drive : DVD-R/W drive
* Internet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)

Download your copy now from here

Visit Windows 7 official website from here

November 14, 2008

Convert Windows File System to NTFS

Lot of people thinks if they convert their disks from FAT ot FAT32 to NTFS it's going to erace all the data on the disk. That is worng. With a simple dos command you all can make that change without deleting or moving a single file from your hard drive.