If you go to this link http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx you can select between a big bunch of free labs.

 

There is labs for IT Pro, developers, and business decision makers. You can select from scripting to System Center family. And most of the products have alot of under menues. Like System Center, where you will find

Sccm, Scom, Scdpm, App-V and Sce. And they again have lots of underlaying labs to select from.

 

One thing to remember that all the labs also gives you the opertunity to download the lab manual as a PDF file insted of just using the small field next to the lab screen.

 

Good labing

A short and easy guide, giving good head points on how to deal with applications in a Migration from XP senario. Although most of you are not in the size of Intel, there are alot of great tips here.

 

To se the guide go to this link here

 

Good points to take are the use of ACT. Many of my customers complain that the list are to long, but washing it will not take that long, remove all hardware related stuff, and old version of applications that you are gone use the latest versions of any way (like office, acrobat reader, 7-zip and so on) and there will also be alot of web add-ons like live search and google toolbar. You will soon see that the list are getting shorter. The path to the application will also in many cases revel if its something you can remove. One final ...

This site are baseing the information on the Beta version off Office 2010, but I quess its just the same with the release version.

 

And it will soon be updated to release info I quess ;-)

 

Information can be found her

Back in the "old" days there was a registry setting to show all hidden devices in device manager

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]

Just add "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" as a REG_SZ (String Value) with valuve 1

 

You have to use this to show devices that was not shown even after turning the "View - Show Hidden Devices" on.

So no, its not a typo in the title, its to show hidden hidden devices

 

Yesterday I got a great tips, that makes it posible to do the same thing with out addning registry setings.

How to use it can be found at this Microsoft articel here

 

But its quit easy to do it, just start a command prompt and type in this 2 lines (followed by enter ;-):