Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) is a Help program that has been included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with the Microsoft Windows 3.1 operating system. However, the Windows Help program has not had a major update for many releases and no longer meets Microsoft's standards and is not shipped with Windows Server 2008.

 

Core Configurator is a basic GUI configuration utility for Windows Server Core 2008. (Thanks Arlindo)

Features:

 

• Product Activation
• Configuration of display resolution
• Clock and time zone configuration
• Remote Desktop configuration
• Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords)
• Firewall configuration
• WinRM configuration
• IP configuration
• Computer name and domain/workgroup membership
• Installation of Server Core features/roles

 

--> Download Core Configurator

 

Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility restores backups made on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to computers running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

 

Click Here for All Free Windows Server 2008 Resources

Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:

 

• Support for the Encrypting File System (EFS)
• Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost) 
• Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
• Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations 
• Improved indexing performance
• Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors

Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:

Computer Policies -

 

• Prevent adding Universal Naming Convention (UNC) locations to index from Control Panel
• Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
• Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the index
• Allow for indexing of encrypted files
• Disable indexer back-off
• Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
• Allow for indexing of online delegate mailboxes
• Prevent adding user
• Specified locations to the All Locations menu
• Enable throttling for online mail indexing

Per-user Policies -

 

• Prevent adding UNC locations to the index from Control Panel
• Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
• Prevent indexing certain paths
• Default indexed paths
• Default excluded paths   

 

Download Windows Search 4.0 for: 

 

• Windows XP & Windows XP x64 Edition
• Windows Vista & Windows Vista x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2003 & Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

 

Multilingual User Interface Packs contains resources for the following 8 languages:

 

• Chinese – Simplified (zh-CN CHS)
• Chinese – Traditional (zh-TW CHT)
• French (fr-FR FRA)
• German (de-DE DEU)
• Italian (it-IT ITA)
• Japanese (ja-JP JPN)
• Korean (ko-KR KOR)
• Spanish (es-ES ESN)

 

Download Multilingual User Interface Pack for:

 

• Windows XP 
• Windows Server 2003 

Editing Features:

• Crop & Rotate — Turn it, straighten it, crop out the background.
• Auto Correct — Automatic, one-click, optimal lighting and contrast adjustment.
• Exposure — Change the brightness of the photo.
• Red-Eye Removal — Removes red eyes caused by some camera flashes.
• Touchup — Remove scratches and other imperfections.
• Saturation — Ramp up the colors to blinding brightness, dampen them down to black and white, or anywhere in between.
• White Balance — Ever notice how people look different inside an office with the ugly fluorescent tubes, as opposed to outside on a bright sunny day? Adjust the white balance and you change the type of lighting in the photo.
• Highlight — The brightest parts of a photo are the highlights. This control lets you brighten or darken just the brightest part of the photo, without affecting the darker parts (we call those the shadows).
• Fill Light — If you take a shot facing into the sun, your subject can end up too dark due to the camera’s automatic exposure adjustment. Fill Light brightens the dark area without overbrightening the background.
• Sharpen — It’s like putting in your contacts. Suddenly everything comes more into focus.
• Soft Focus — It’s like taking your contacts out. Soft Focus creates a subtle blur for artistic effect.
• Hue — This one changes all the colors in a photo at once.
• Black & White — Control how the colors are converted when you change a photo to black and white.
• Tint — Imagine instead of black and white, you want red and white, or pale brown and white for that old Western look.
• Sketch — Makes any photo look like you drew it yourself.
• Distort — Stretch, twist, bulge specific areas of your photos.

 

--> Try Photoshop Express Here

 

Microsoft's Multi-Language Pack for Search Server 2008 enable the use of multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft Search Server 2008, allowing multiple language pack installations on the same server.

--> Search Server 2008 (x86) Language Pack

--> Search Server 2008 (x64) Language Pack

NOTE: This Language Pack will not change the language of the installed server.

Role Administration Tools:

 

• Active Directory Certificate Services Tools
• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
• DHCP Server Tools
• DNS Server Tools
• File Services Tools
• Network Policy and Access Services Tools
• Terminal Services Tools
• Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools 

 

Feature Administration Tools:

 

• BitLocker Drive Encryption Tools
• Failover Clustering Tools
• Group Policy Management Tools
• Network Load Balancing Tools
• SMTP Server Tools
• Storage Manager for SANs Tools
• Windows System Resource Manager Tools

 

The following list of tools are also fully supported managing Windows Server 2003 servers:

 

• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
• Active Directory Certification Authority Tools
• DHCP Server Tools
• DNS Server Tools
• Terminal Services Tools
• Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services Tools
• Group Policy Management Tools
• Network Load Balancing Tools 

 

--> Download Remote Server Administration Tools 32-bit

--> Download Remote Server Administration Tools 64-bit

 

Windows Vista Product Guide Revision Document is made available for consumers who own a print copy of the Windows Vista Product Guide's first release. It outlines the improvements made to Windows Vista by Service Pack 1 as well as explaining minor content changes between the two product guide releases.

 

Windows Vista Product Guide - A comprehensive feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista.

 

Free & Paid Help and Support for Windows Vista Service Pack 1

 

Tax Integration Add-in for Microsoft Office Accounting provides an add-in functionality to set up Tax Lines in Office Accounting that will enable integration with 2008 Ultra Tax & 2008 Tax Works.

 

Office Enterprise 2007 Training Notebook introduces the new Fluent User Interface and then moves through different programs in the Office Enterprise 2007 system. Training and information about new features, tools, and benefits are presented in easy-to-follow sections with pages that can be reviewed at your own pace and in any order that you prefer.

 

The Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 provides authors of scientific articles with the ability to read and write files from Word 2007 into the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving articles in the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, PubMed Central.

 

This Add-in is targeted at the staff of scientific and technical journals, Information Repositories, and early adopters within the scholarly authoring community, as well as developers of publishing solutions and workflows.

 

SoftGrid Visio Stencils - It includes SoftGrid clients, the various server components and also some individual shapes for creating your own objects.  (Thanks Justin)

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Five Language Standalone version can be installed on systems with any of the following language versions:

1. English (US)
2. French
3. German
4. Japanese
5. Spanish (Traditional)

 

DOWNLOAD --> Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Five Language Standalone

• Windows Vista SP1 - x86 Version
• Windows Vista SP1 - x64 Version
  

SUPPORT RESOURCES:

Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (18 Page Document in .XPS and .PDF formats) - This white paper presents an overview of Windows Vista SP1 and the improvements it contains.

Notable Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - This document describes the notable changes made to Windows Vista in Service Pack 1, which were focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.

Release Notes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - These release notes address late-breaking issues and information related to Windows Vista SP1.

 

Hotfixes and Security Updates included in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - This document contains a list of all the hotfixes and security updates included in Windows Vista SP1.

 

Windows Vista Product Guide Revision Document is made available for consumers who own a print copy of the Windows Vista Product Guide's first release. It outlines the improvements made to Windows Vista by Service Pack 1 as well as explaining minor content changes between the two product guide releases.

 

Windows Vista Product Guide A comprehensive feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista.

 

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Deployment Guide

TechNet: Things to know before you download Windows Vista SP1

PROBLEMS? Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.

 

Free & Paid Help and Support for Windows Vista Service Pack 1

 

Microsoft's John Guin first pointed us to a Favorites OneNote PowerToy, which works like Internet Explorer's “favorites” by saving the paths and locations of your OneNote Notebooks.

And now John has recommended a newerer "Favorites" version from Microsoft OneNote Tester, Shu Chen

--> Watch OneNote Favorites Powertoy Video

--> Download OneNote Favorites Powertoy Here

 

OLAP PivotTable Extensions is an Excel 2007 add-in which extends the functionality of PivotTables on Analysis Services cubes. The Excel 2007 API has certain PivotTable functionality which is not exposed in the UI. OLAP PivotTable Extensions provides an interface for some of this functionality.  (Thanks Andrew)

 

The Windows Server 2008 Network Shell (Netsh) Technical Reference provides a comprehensive command reference for networking technologies such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Network Policy Server (NPS), Network Access Protection (NAP), and Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS), among many other technologies for which there are netsh commands. Netsh commands offer an alternative to configuring network technologies using the Windows interface. You can run netsh commands in batch files and scripts, and you can run them from the netsh prompt by manually typing commands. You can use netsh commands to configure both local and remote computers.

The Workstation Migration Assistant is a visual wrapper for Microsoft's User State Migration Tool, designed to simplify the capture / restore process for your end-users, and at the same time being highly configurable so that it can be customized to suit your organizations needs. Some of the features include:

 

• Migrate via a pre-defined network storage location, external USB drive, or user-specified location. USB drive detection is automatic, and you can decide whether drives below a certain size are ignored (ie, memory sticks)
• Optional Hard Disk Health Check will run a CHKDSK prior to capture and fix errors if any are found
• Optional Encryption using a pre-defined company encryption key, or per-user customized encryption (for highly sensitive data that can’t be stored on a server without being encrypted)
• Use different configurations for "XP Only" (2000 / XP to XP) migrations via Standard (2000 / XP / Vista to XP / Vista)
• Automatically run pre and post-capture / restore scripts and programs (very useful to further configure machine settings)
• Migrate domain only accounts, or domain and local
• Automatically exclude certain domain or local accounts from the migration
• Automatically send log files to an e-mail address via SMTP after the migration
• On-screen status during every stage of the migration, including ETA
• Option to limit migrations to a certain size, i.e. if over 20GB of data to backup, then fail and inform user. This is also overridable
• Automatic checks for USMT installation and optionally download and install
• Command-line automation
• Super-pretty UI  (^_^)

 --> Download Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC1

 

 

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.1 Update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. 

But first,  there's SIX Prerequisite Updates!

1. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update
2. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.9 Update
3. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.8 Update
4. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update
5. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.6 Update
6. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 Update 

[NOTE: You should also install Microsoft Office AutoUpdate]

 

Click Here for All Free Macintosh Software from Microsoft

 

The Windows command-line tools are used to perform various tasks related to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.You can use the command reference to familiarize yourself with new and enhanced command-line tools, to learn about the command shell, and to automate command-line tasks by using batch files or scripting tools.

--> Download Windows Command Reference

• I.T. 24/7 Robot Screensaver #1
• I.T. 24/7 Robot Screensaver #2

BLAKE: Please use these screensavers on a workstation, not an actual Windows Server 2008.