March 2009 - Posts

The slide deck’s for our last two sessions are online now for you to download and enjoy. You can get it all at www.it-talks.be

 

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I don’t know why this happened but on one of our servers we saw the logon screen go to black text boxes for some strange reason.

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The solution was in the color schemes in the computer's default profile that had changed. If I ever figure out why i’ll let you all know but you can solve this by playing with some registry keys and setting them back to their default value.

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"ActiveTitle"="0 84 227"
"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"
"Background"="0 78 152"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"
"ButtonDkShadow"="113 111 100"
"ButtonFace"="236 233 216"
"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonLight"="241 239 226"
"ButtonShadow"="172 168 153"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="61 149 255"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="157 185 235"
"GrayText"="172 168 153"
"Hilight"="49 106 197"
"HilightText"="255 255 255"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 128"
"InactiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"InactiveTitle"="122 150 223"
"InactiveTitleText"="216 228 248"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="255 255 255"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="212 208 200"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"
"MenuHilight"="49 106 197"
"MenuBar"="236 233 216"

It’s been quiet on the forefront but very busy on the backend for me the past couple of weeks. I have been travelling to Seattle for the MVP summit, here’s a nice pick of the atmosphere there. Imagine packing about 1400 of the worlds leading MS guys in one room and giving them the chance to ask direct questions to the panel. You get some pretty strange results ;-)DSC00017

After my trip I spent the last 3 days in Antwerp at the MS techdays 2009. I even hosted a session with a fully packed room. Apart from  the nerves this was a great experience and even though all talks can always be better I’m very pleased with the way it went down and the great audience I had.

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Apart from speaking at the TechDays we where also responsible for organising the Community  game. We had 136 people that submitted a form and will be announcing the winners shortly. Thanks again to everyone who participated.

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