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Last June I didi a series of interviews with Alun Rodgers of Risual about the cool stuff in Windows Server 2008. In one of these.. Alun is telling me about how Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop Services, RDS, in Windows Server 2008 R2) could
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I am part of a small team preparing for the launch of Windows 7, its big brother Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 on 6th October at Wembley stadium. I volunteered to be the producer as I am not presenting, and this essentially means that
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Our first effort at running a TechNet type road show as a virtual event worked pretty well but this platform did have a few niggles which I hope didn’t ruin your day too much. This was mainly around the moderated chat which we couldn’t get into
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Normally at this time of the year the evangelists would be wandering the UK with the TechNet road shows. However this year TechNet has gone virtual as it’s become very apparent that you are finding it even more difficult to justify a day out of
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I am presenting in Sofia for a few days at Microsoft Days 09 and I don’t speak any Bulgarian! Fortunately Microsoft and English seem to go hand in hand, and I have been sitting in on sessions about Windows 2008 r2 and SQL Server when I am
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My TechNet Live Webcast on upgrading from SQL Server 2000, has now been rescheduled for 3 March from 4-5pm. If you can catch it live you can ping me and the TechNet team with questions during the webcast, but it will be available off-line (together
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Following Tuesday’s TechNet event in Manchester, I promised to answer the questions in my blog that I couldn’t answer immediately, so without further ado… Does data collector work with all editions specifically express edition? Data collection
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Unlike Manchester United, SQL Server 2008 is under new management. What I mean by this is that there are a load of new tools to configure, tune and audit which are essential to keep a modern database in the premiership. While I have done a few events
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Quite a few people have asked me where the decks are for the SQL Server unleashed event and I now have an answer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb945096.aspx which I need to put on my blog so I can also remember myself! Also we have filmed this and
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Small Business Server (SBS) is like flying a single engined aircraft. There’s a lot of stuff going on but you only have one box to worry about and backup and interoperability are all a lot easier because of this. Flying a twin engined aircraft is
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Although the official UK launch of SQL Server 2008 merged in with the launches of Windows Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 back in March, we wanted to celebrate the actual release as well. So please join us in TVP on 10th September for SQL Server
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I hope you are sitting down, and don’t have a coffee in your hand when you read this, but SQL Server 2008 released at 17:00 GMT today! This is good news for all the people who have asked me about release dates as they can now start to plan and deploy
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I am now hard at work on the events that will occur around the release SQL Server 2008. This time around I will be presenting: SQL Server Under New Management The ratio of DBA’s to the size of data being managed is increasing all the time as is
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During our current round of TechNet road shows we are focusing on Windows Server 2008 and I open my session with a trailer from Maclaren. This shows how they use SQL Server 2008 and I did this because there will be a lot more SQL Server content on the
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The IT Pro team will be talking to over 2,000 of you over the next couple weeks as we embark on our sold out TechNet road show . The bread van (as the rest of the team refer to my eccentric choice in transport) will be putting the mini into mini
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