February 2007 - Posts
I just posted the TechReady keynote demo, which I talked about earlier, on soapbox. In this demo you will see: Windows Server Virtualization running on Server Core managed from another Windows Server Longhorn box 64-bit hosts and 32-bit hosts and a Linux
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PowerShell is our newest and coolest command line shell and scripting language. It is built on the .Net Framework and introduces features that enable command-line users and script writers to leverage the power of that foundation. It introduces a number
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My Canadian colleague Rick Claus recorded a podcast with Jeff Woolsey Lead Program Manager for the Virtualization team. Remember one of my previous blogposts where I talked about the amazing demo I saw during Bill Gates his presentation, well Jeff was
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I was working with Eric Denekamp about a System Center Operations Manager 2007 session during the Dev & IT Pro days . Because I asked Eric his bio I found out on his blog (which has been added to my subscription list) that my until know preferred
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Some highlights of this Beta 2 release of SCCM ’07: Admin UI – New MMC3.0 support, Search Folders, Easy Task access, Feature Landing pages and multi select OS Deployment – Complete deployment automation for Client and Server Desired Configuration Management
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TechNet Evening : Overview of What's New in Windows Server "Longhorn" In this session we focus on key Windows Server code name 'Longhorn' features and the development philosophy behind these features. We will take a close look at Server Manager, Windows
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In my previous blogpost I talked about which 10 reasons I would blog. Now the first one is Server Management Improvements. Server Management Improvements - Installation and Initial Configuration To start I wanted to point out that we've simplified the
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This week we released the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment (WVHA) tool. WVHA is a desktop deployment assessment and planning tool designed to help you quickly assess your PCs’ if they are ready to run Windows Vista. It utilizes powerful queries including
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Today there are several options to the ways in which business customers can use volume activation technologies to activate multiple Windows Vista-based PCs in their desktop environments. For a brief description and links to the ‘new’ Windows Volume Activation
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In the next couple of months I will be focusing onto Windows Server Codename "Longhorn". What will I do? First of all I will have some speaking engagements at different events. The first one will be on March 7 during the TechNet Evening - Overview of
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TechNet Funcast: BI: The Mac-Guyver Techniques : SQL Server Analysis Services Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services includes new capabilities that enable you to deliver rich and powerful analytics to your organization. In this session, we demonstrate
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During our annual Dev & IT Pro Days we will have 6 sessions that will have a SQL Server 2005 and Business Intelligence (BI) focus. SQL / BI Sessions Day 1: Microsoft Business Intelligence overview Microsoft BI offering consists of SQL Server as the
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Virtual PC 2007 has been released to web and guess what it's free. Here is a list of some of the key enhancements we've made: Optimized for Windows Vista. The virtualization architecture has been optimized for Windows Vista to provide improvements in
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Key enhancements to SQL Server SP2 include the following: Data Mining Add-ins for the 2007 Microsoft Office system enable data mining functionality from SQL Server Analysis Services to be used directly within Excel 2007 and Visio 2007. SQL Server Reporting
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Do you want to test Exchange 2007 without installing it? Here is your chance we are offering you a 5 day mail account that has been pre-popluated with sample mails, calendar items. You will be able to access your mailbox through Outlook Web Access, Office
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Yesterday I posted how to get PowerShelled during the Dev & IT Pro days. Today I want to point you to the different Longhorn Server sessions we are planning during the event. During the Pre-conference Ronald Beekelaar will talk about the new Hypervisor
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While I think most of the IT Professionals (who are not developers) probably don't care about the Office Open XML (OOXML) vs ODF discussions that are going on. Until now I did not read a lot about what the biggest differences are and why people were against
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During the second day of the event we will have a PowerShell session "Think PowerShell" delivered by Bruce Payette. Bruce Payette is a founding member of the PowerShell team at Microsoft. He is a co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal
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Today Gunter Staes delivered the first part of the BI Funcasts: BI: The Mac-Guyver Techniques : SQL Server Integration Services. This session has been recorded. View Session Recording Next Session - 28/02/2007 The next session will be held on February
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Today at the 3GSM World congress 2007 in Barcelona we announced the release of Windows Mobile 6. Here is a list of the improvements we've made: New mobile versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint available for Windows Mobile 6 powered devices.
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During different presentations at TechReady I saw presenters zooming their screen to show the smaller parts of the window. I taught this was a feature of the beamer and apparently I was wrong. In fact this is done by a tool called ZoomIt which has been
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I just received a mail about the fact that we are going to change the name of our Windows Live Mail service to Windows Live Hotmail . In the coming weeks we will rollout a public beta. I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile you can read about the name change
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We just released this tool known as the "ClusPrep". The ClusPrep is a cluster validation tool that does a complete system inventory and runs focused tests on servers that are configured and ready for Microsoft Server Cluster installation (in other words,
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Tony Krijnen one of my famous dutch colleagues, although he just said he's not famous, has written a good blogpost about what hardware Microsoft together with partners are developing in the communication space. This will definitively change the way we
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I did not have really lot's of time yet to blog about the things I learned here in Seattle, there so many interesting sessions that I need to attend which makes it difficult for me to find some time to blog about it. We just had the keynote session from
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I am in Seattle to attend at our annual Technical Readiness week called TechReady . We just had some keynote's and the opening keynote from Steve Ballmer was just great as usual. This weekend we've got an update on where are going to with our new products,
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The Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center enables you to set up new partnerships, synchronize content and manage music, pictures and video with Windows Mobile powered devices (Windows Mobile 2003 or later). The Windows Mobile Device Center is only supported
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