<div dir="ltr">You're welcome Bob. I really enjoyed doing the presentation. Sorry about the confusion regarding the partitioning of the hard drive, but when I did the move from the original install of Win 7 to the VHD I had no idea I would be doing a presentation so I took no screenshots!! :)<div>
I hope you are correct and Sysinternals lives on. I hope I misunderstood Ed Bott's article.</div><div>Take care, Jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At today's KWLUG meeting Jim Kelsh mentioned that the Microsoft Technet<br>
service is shutting down, and everyone feared that the Sysinternals site<br>
would go down with it, and the disk2vhd tool Jim used in his<br>
presentation: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx" target="_blank">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx</a><br>
<br>
Here's the ZDNet article:<br>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-7000017541/" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-7000017541/</a><br>
<br>
> Good night, TechNet.<br>
><br>
> The online Technet blogs and customer support forums will live on,<br>
> but Microsoft announced today in a letter to subscribers that it<br>
> plans to retire its venerable TechNet subscriptions service. New<br>
> subscriptions will no longer be available after August 31, 2013, and<br>
> the subscription service will shut down as current subscribers'<br>
> contracts end.<br>
<br>
The subscription service was for a pack of CDs/DVDs with current<br>
Microsoft products and their activation keys, intended for short-term<br>
evaluation only.<br>
<br>
Bott specifically says the online forums and blogs will continue, but<br>
there's no mention of the Sysinternals site being shut down. I expect<br>
that it will stay for now.<br>
<br>
I tried to find an announcement about this on the Microsoft site, but<br>
apparently the announcement was sent only to Technet subscribers.<br>
Someone posted the letter they received from Microsoft, which doesn't<br>
mention Sysinternals either:<br>
<a href="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28428386#28428444" target="_blank">http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28428386#28428444</a><br>
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So, I'm hoping Sysinternals lives on.<br>
<br>
--Bob.<br>
<br>
(and thanx for the great presentation, Jim!)<br>
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