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Microsoft Developer Network’s (MSDN) Licensing

The Microsoft Developer Network, better known as MSDN, now called Visual Studio Subscriptions, is one of Microsoft’s most misunderstood products.  The Visual Studio Subscription (formerly MSDN) is one of the largest community platforms for developers working on Microsoft technologies. What You Get in Your Visual Studio Subscription With an MSDN subscription, you get all the software […]

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VMware, Windows 10 Customization Specification Not Completing

Here are details of my setup – in fact, I started over from scratch to document my steps. This seems to be a new problem occurring with Windows 10, version 1709   Install of new VMware guest for the purpose of being a template Create new VM, named it windows_10_enterprise_version_1703 Remove floppy drive Uncheck networking […]

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Creation of Virtual Machine Fails – StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound

Working with the team in creating new virtual machine templates I found that some of our Windows 7 templates when they are being deployed with the following error: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter ProductKey. (StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound) I attempted to do some google searching which gave me no information for […]

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Windows 8 reached RTM status

Today, I learned that select ‘friendly’ people of the Microsoft world have got their hands on the RTM build of Windows 8. I hope to get my hands on this sometime today and have it installed by end of day to share with you all my thoughts of this long awaited OS from Microsoft; I may even demo it […]