Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Resolves Network Dropouts

Mark Berry June 18, 2011

A few months back, I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. From the beginning, I had frequent issues with applications crashing due to lost connections to the server.

Activate Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK Key – GUI Method

Mark Berry October 25, 2010

In spite of what it says in MSKB article 929826, and in spite of what I wrote in a previous blog article, it is possible to activate Windows 7 Enterprise through the GUI. In fact it’s quick and simple.

IE8 No such interface supported

Mark Berry March 2, 2010

I hate it when this happens.

Under Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 was giving consistent messages when JavaScript tried to open a new window:  "No such interface supported."

Debugging mode shows that this is happening when trying to open a window:

Computing Interrupted: The Windows 7 Remote Desktop Experience

Mark Berry January 6, 2010

The Remote Desktop experience in Window 7 computer has changed significantly since the Windows XP days. Here's a brief overview.

Windows 7 Causes 675 0×19 Security Errors in Windows 2003 Domain

Mark Berry December 29, 2009

I had this issue with Vista and now it has returned with Windows 7. I got some good advice in the Microsoft Partner Newsgroup and wanted to pass it along.

After adding a Windows 7 machine to a Windows Server 2003 R2 domain, I started getting lots of 675 errors in the server’s Security Event Log.

Group Policy in a Mixed Windows XP – Windows 7 Environment

Mark Berry December 29, 2009

I’ve recently added a Windows 7 Enterprise computer to a network that is mostly running Windows XP SP3 with a Windows Server 2003 R2 server.

One of the main challenges is to get Group Policy to work properly in the mixed Windows XP – Windows 7 environment. For now, the goal isn’t to take advantage of all the new Group Policy features–we just want Group Policy to do on Windows 7 what it does on XP.

Activate Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK Key

Mark Berry December 28, 2009

Update 10/25/2010:  This article is superseded by Activate Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK Key – GUI Method.

A small customer purchased Software Assurance (SA) on their Windows desktop licenses. One SA benefit is the right to install Windows 7 Enterprise. The size of the site does not warrant a KMS server. I was able to obtain a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Site. But the Windows 7 installation never prompted for the key, and when I try to activate Windows 7, I get the message “Windows could not be activated. DNS name does not exist.”

I assumed that the problem was the missing key, so I went looking for a way to enter the key through the Windows GUI.

There is none.

Connecting Windows 7 to SBS 2003

Mark Berry August 25, 2009

I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit RTM) on a laptop that had previously run Vista. While I'm liking Windows 7 much better than Vista, it was quite a challenge using /connectcomputer to get it into my SBS 2003 domain. The Official SBS Blog has a brief post advising one to install hotfix 926505, which I had already done for Vista. That, however, was not enough. Here's what I learned.