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Adding "Runas" back into Vista and Windows 2008

February 4th, 2009 Kasper de Jonge No comments

When testing security in SharePoint/Reporting Services you want to run IE as another user, I run my laptop and VM’s on Windos Server 2008, the runas feature has disappeared from this release. But SysInternals has a tool who puts the “Run as different user…” option back into the context menu for applications

You can download the tool from HERE, (which comes as a ZIP file containing the EXE and a licensing agreement), and run the exe from an “administrator” command window like this…
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Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS

June 3rd, 2008 Kasper de Jonge No comments
Yesterday i received my new laptop (Dell Vostro 1700) with Windows Server 2008 installed to it. Server 2008 is a great replacement for Vista. Windows Workstation 2008 has all the patches and fixes that are present in Vista SP1; runs all the same software but does it faster. InformationWeek calls Windows Workstation 2008 the “speediest and most secure version of Windows to come along in a decade.”
 
A great article about tuning you Server 2008 to a Super desktop:
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