February 2008 - Posts
Assess Infrastructure Readiness for OS Migration and Virtualization with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator ! No IT project can be successful unless the specific network environment is well understood. To help IT professionals
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Last week we kicked of the Microsoft DreamSpark student program , this program ( http://channel8.msdn.com ) makes available, at no charge, a broad range of development and design software for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million
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You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are. Today we're giving you both. You now have five times the space you had before — that’s 5GB of free online storage for your favorite
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We are pleased to announce that--while broad RTW availability is still scheduled for March--the SP1 Update RTM bits are available now to TechNet subscribers. If you are subscriber, please visit TechNet Plus Subscriptions and sign in to access Top Subscriber
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The Belgian WinSec UG organizes another event on Feb 26th about Windows 2008 security . Protecting your I.T. infrastructure in the Vista and Windows Server 2008 Era In the film `The Matrix', Neo has to choose between taking the blue and the red pill.
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Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals
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Do you want to learn how to install a perfect slick running SQL server our next event’s a must attend as we have two specialist from the SQL server user group that will spend a whole day showing and training us in the art of SQL server deployment”.
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The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. This series aims to clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, each addressing a unique infrastructure
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Another major milestone for Microsoft, the RTM Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 has just been announced. for the past 3 years more than 5000 people have contributed to those products and finally we are ready to ship. Started downloading as I speak (write).
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As promised during my previous post about the Launch experience here is a list of Topics covered in the IT Pro Track : Active Directory Attacks and How to protect against them Speaker: Jan Declercq This session provides examples of attacks against Active
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During the roadshow I delivered a few days ago I've received a lot of questions about the upgrade path for Windows Server 2008. Now the "Ask the Performance team" blog posted a very interesting article about the upgrade path and resource limitations
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Busy times over here, the last weeks, months I have been doing a lot of stuff, delivering a roadshow around Windows Server 2008, planning an Academic roadshow but most of all I've been working onto the agenda of our two upcoming events or is it one event.
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Filed under: Dev & IT Pro days, Event, Licensing, SQL Server 2008, Technet, Virtualization, Windows Server, MOSS 2007, Security, Vista, Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008, TechDays
The XNA Belgian User Group organizes the February 2008 XNA Contest This contest is open for developers and designers, working on XNA Games. The development and demo can be done on a PC platform or XBOX 360. The participants can form teams of 2 people
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Hyper-V is changing the way networking works if you compare it to Virtual Server. Today I was reconfiguring my Hyper-V server and suddenly I've lost my RDP connection. Why did I lost my connection to the server? Well I was reconfiguring the networking
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If you are planning to deploy Windows Server 2008 - Server Core installations in your network I would strongly advise you to use the following tip. In all my Server core installations I change the default prompt to something like this: Imagine you have
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This session will start with an introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (aka SCCM 2007), formerly named Systems Management Server or SMS for short. The introduction should help new SCCM administrators understand what features the newly
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