what’s new in windows 7 printing May 25, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Hardware and Applications, Uncategorized.Tags: printing
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I’ve been training for over 10 years on the features of Windows printing and after awhile, the lessons become B-O-R-I-N-G. Nothing really has changed since Windows 95. A tweak here and there, but printing is printing and Windows’ print environment has been mainly static. Till now!
Windows 7 supports some new features in print management like the totally cool location-aware printing. It also supports XPS (which was actually introduced in Vista) which means faster-raster, or as MS puts it, “near engine speeds.”
Here’s a summary of changes from Technet along with some interesting links for more information:
What are the new and changed features?
Print Management provides the following new and improved features to Windows printing:
- Print migration enhancements
- Printer driver isolation
- Print Management snap-in improvements
- Client-Side Rendering (CSR) performance improvements
- XML Paper Specification (XPS) print path improvements
- Location-aware printing
program compatibility assistant February 18, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Hardware and Applications, MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7 (70-686), MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680).Tags: 70-680, 70-682, 70-685, 70-686, appcompat, program compatibility assistant
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The PCA is an appcompat feature built into Windows 7 and Server 2008. It’ll spring up on you, alerting you of known compatibility issues, and even suggest a course of action.
PCA on Server 2008 R2
Thin, Thick, or Hybrid Chart February 18, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Installing, Upgrading, Migrating to Windows 7, MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7 (70-686), MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680).Tags: 70-680, 70-686, deployment, images
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Here’s a chart I created based on information in the Windows 7 Resource Kit. It identifies the differences between Thin, Thick, & Hybrid images as it relates to application deployments.
Image Types for Application Deployment
my computer was sucking wind February 13, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Managing & Maintaining Systems that Run Windows 7, MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680).Tags: 70-680, Resource Exhaustion Prevention, Windows 7
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If only computers would let you know when they’ve reached their breaking point before they just up and collapse. Wouldn’t that be nice? But wait, Windows 7 (& Vista) will do just that! It’s called the Resource Exhaustion Prevention feature!
Just the other day, Windows alerted me that it was out of memory– and I was able to respond by closing an unneeded window. It was almost like I could hear Windows panting: ”I’m out of *gasp* win-go-juice here. Need *gasp* rest or you might *gasp* lose data . . . “
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- *gasp*
Running out of memory of course isn’t a good thing but running out of memory, crashing or freezing, then losing data- well that just sucks!
For more information, check out this great link from one of my favorite Windows sites! And here’s Microsoft.
Windows Privileges February 10, 2010
Posted by examROAR in Configuring Access to Resources, MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring (70-680), Uncategorized.Tags: 70-680, privileges
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An important clarification and learning point when working with Windows is the distinction between User Rights and NTFS\Share\Application Permissions. If you come from the Novell world, Rights and Permissions are pretty much the same thing- Not in Windows! Rights are essentially system-wide privileges assigned primarily through policies. Permissions, on the other hand, are associated with a resource such as a file or printer. I’d like to share more about this topic but the real reason for this post is to point you to this great article on Windows privileges. I like the author’s analogy and explanation of the Whoami tool. So for more on privileges- check this out.
