Windows Server code name “Vail” / “Aurora” – What do we know so far?
Windows Server code name “Vail”
Windows Server code name “Vail” is the name for the upcoming version of Windows Home Server. It will be based on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 and feature a complete new server console (now called Dashboard). A preview version of “Vail” (ctp4, community technology preview 4) with the buildtag 6.1.7360.0 (hsbs_ids.091210-1540) leaked to the internet [...]
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What does IDS/IDW mean and what are Escrow builds?
I have noticed a lot of questions and confusion regarding IDS builds recently. In the following I’ll give you a small overview of the different developer builds and what their abbrevations mean.
There are 3 kinds of these developer builds, which are:
IDW – Internal Developer Workstation
IDS – Internal Developer Server
Originally the IDS term was used to describe a build which can [...]
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You want to create a custom OS? Don’t do it!
More than one and a half year ago I have been working on a project — I used to call these kind of hackjobs “Custom OS”, but that term doesn’t fit very well if you ask me — called Codename Sylvester.
A few days ago I stumbled over a 3GB zip file containing all the work related to this project but [...]
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A few batch files for creating Windows 7 setup images
With the recent leaks of Windows 7 there have been several builds which did not come on an ISO file, but have been leaked as a VHD file or an archive instead. I have created a few batch files which make it easy to convert a VHD image to an ISO file and to recreate authentic setup discs of Windows [...]
Tags: CREATEISO, VHD2WIM, WIM2VHD | read on
